Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!q12g2000prb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: I was interviewed about the Tohoku disaster Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:56:43 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 49 Distribution: world Message-ID: <56871c42-6455-445e-a7e9-e3fb8fd02168@q12g2000prb.googlegroups.com> References: <0ed1bf6b-65e3-40f5-a470-727459d8b57e@t19g2000prd.googlegroups.com> <89700cd0-78e3-401d-937c-e04510f026a7@r4g2000prm.googlegroups.com> <2cefe0cb-767f-4e50-967d-ced3cebc78fb@j35g2000prb.googlegroups.com> <2a12aa72-1578-410d-b512-d9df2dfa16c9@k3g2000prl.googlegroups.com> <3fc95757-6ec1-4648-bda4-65b4368e9e9e@o30g2000pra.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 123.221.176.51 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1301479003 30641 127.0.0.1 (30 Mar 2011 09:56:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:56:43 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q12g2000prb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=123.221.176.51; posting-account=dFdNnAoAAACo_-792nICp6wBtnsk5ZbZ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:169817 On Mar 30, 5:05=A0am, "John W." wrote: > On Mar 29, 12:38=A0pm, Declan Murphy wrote: > > > On Mar 29, 9:02=A0pm, "John W." wrote: > > > > On Mar 28, 3:05=A0pm, Declan Murphy wrote= : > > > > > On Mar 28, 9:06=A0pm, "John W." wrote: > > > > > > On Mar 27, 9:41=A0pm, The 2-Belo > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > They gave me the opportunity to voice observations about the ev= ent, however > > > > > > tenuous my connection to it; I obliged since I wanted to be one= of the tiny > > > > > > voices of relative calm in the maelstrom of people screeching a= bout the End > > > > > > Times. > > > > > > After the Kobe quake I wrote a piece for my hometown rag. My > > > > > grandmother was somewhat perturbed that I wrote about drinking be= er on > > > > > a hill overlooking the city watching the city burn. Her displeasu= re > > > > > had little to do with the fire; as a good Southern Baptist she > > > > > couldn't believe I'd public own up to drinking. > > > > > Was this was the lovely drinking-Guinness-in-the-street-while-Kobe- > > > > burned story? I loved that one. > > > > Yes, same one. My Austrian friend and I had an ample supply of beer > > > but precious little water, so after we got depressed about standing > > > around Sannomiya we took some onigiri and went into the wilderness, s= o > > > to speak. He still lives in Kobe; makes custom shoes. > > > For some reason I remember the lovely drinking-Guinness-in-the-street- > > while-Kobe-burned bit, but not the John & (male) Austrian friend head > > into the woods bromance bit. Selective memory and all that I guess > > Well, you weren't there, that's why. My wife was, though. I know I wasn't there, but I also don't remember the "irresponsibly abandoning an ample supply of beer and heading to the hills" part of the story. With or without wife. Mind you, I think this was one of the stories you were telling me during a somewhat boozy evening in Himeji.