you can't watch "30 rock" or "glee" from a japanese ip address, so we assumed that it was pointless to pay too close attention to the news aggregating emails that we get every weekday. maybe we wouldn't have had access to any of the outlets, right? and that's not even to mention any blogs...
so now it's catch up time. luckily, the internet is behind us as ever (in every sense of that phrase), so catching up ultimately meant slowing down to rejoin the present.
aroundabout november 10, jacob weisberg of slate.com had something charmingly naïve to say about internet journalism (in an article at the new york observer): "We basically invented blogging. And sort of the whole tone of the Web, which to me comes out of email more than anything else, a much more colloquial, personal form of diction. I think Slate was the publication that really, more than anyone else, developed that voice, which in some ways has now infiltrated back into print."
we all know that the japanese invented blogging, which, incidentally, was a source of much needed inspiration while we were in japan. that weisberg's comments were made during our absence does suspect his motives: perhaps he thought that his claiming the internet in the name of slate had a chance of flying under our radar. the japanese self-defense forces are widely manned and well equipped, but everyone knows that they're not organized to withstand a sustained attack.
looks like it's back to hardball. monday in america. can you smell the money? oh. but that might just be me. i haven't gotten the stink out of everything since leaving tokyo.
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