tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848358410529477558.post7574367050366742983..comments2023-04-14T22:17:25.285+08:00Comments on lizardrinking: hand in handlizardrinkinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10631267904133624562noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848358410529477558.post-1833771598337923542009-04-29T13:39:00.000+08:002009-04-29T13:39:00.000+08:00Even more corporate than HR.Even more corporate than HR.TheOldSchoolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02177279286581027697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848358410529477558.post-6746429925195813172009-04-29T13:15:00.000+08:002009-04-29T13:15:00.000+08:00Please don't call me Sheila (just remembered the r...Please don't call me Sheila (just remembered the reference)! ;-)I'll send you a MBL. And again, thanks for the compliments. You can call me rose, though, PR sounds kinda corporate.lizardrinkingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848358410529477558.post-16869748351463976702009-04-29T11:29:00.000+08:002009-04-29T11:29:00.000+08:00Shall I call you Sheila?
What are you doing in Ja...Shall I call you Sheila?<br /><br />What are you doing in Japan? What part?<br /><br />I've been to Tokyo twice, for one week only both times. The city just feels to me like I'm stepping into the future. Surreal.<br /><br />Sorry, if I sound like the nosey, blabbermouth American asking you who what where questions.<br /><br />I like to keep anything about my personal life private, especially at sites like PAN.<br /><br />Then a month ago, I opened up a bit to mamason...quite a bit, actually, but anyway, what I'm saying is that don't feel bad if you don't feel like answering my dumb questions. <br /><br />In this country, I've actually heard someone ask some one else, who she'd just met (at a dinner party), "So, how much [money] do you make?"<br /><br />Not too gauche...is it?<br /><br />I know exactly what you mean about how careful one has to be discussing anything controversial or at variance from the commonly accepted notions, but, I don't think you could ever come across to anyone as a loon. Not with your sophisticated sensibility.<br /><br />In fact, you're the person I'd want on my side when I'm being called a loon. (I can't be a loon. Here's PR. She'll tell you why.)<br /><br />Well, I look forward to reading everything you post.<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />TOSTheOldSchoolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02177279286581027697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848358410529477558.post-13502004630113802902009-04-28T21:32:00.000+08:002009-04-28T21:32:00.000+08:00Now I will join Mama in blushing prowess. Because ...Now I will join Mama in blushing prowess. Because it is such a controversial topic, and the hasbara trolls out there are mighty in their numbers, ... not that they visit here, thank God, I don't really mention it on PAN. The regulars know of it, because I used to just blog about regular stuff before Gaza.<br /><br />People are kept ignorant, too. It is sometimes difficult to write without seeming like a conspiracy theorist looney, and all the baggage that comes with that.<br /><br />Also, I only started writing on this bent from about December 31, though I was watching it prior, a few days after Olmert and Livni decided to first bomb Gaza, and then send in ground troops. Though I did have a previous post on Gitmo and one on when the Gazans broke through the Rafah border to get stocks, but I might have deleted it.<br /><br />I started to write because people do not have the knowledge on this (it was something that glo and fantasy said - Cb was on the money, however). I keep meaning to stop. I don't actually thoroughly go through all the news stops. I cheat. I visit Antony Loewenstein and Mondoweiss, Tikun Olam, all progressive Jewish blogs, and pick up on what they put down. Sometimes the Angry Arab, and others too. I just follow their leads. And I do not know how long I will keep writing on it. The posts do take a long time. <br /><br />I don't feel I have a deep enough knowledge, though I have enough knowledge to see when injustice is being done. If you read my posts prior to the attack on Gaza, they are mostly travel posts.<br /><br />I am PR on PAN, and my blog is not linked to PAN (you can do that, you know, it ups your readership)mainly because I didn't want park rose and lizardrinking linked on google searches (my masses of PAN comments were appearing there under lizardrinking). Cos I live in Japan, I'm on a different time to most PANites, and I don't get down and dirty, either ;-D, so that means I only comment on a few posts. I don't like when PAN turns into the schoolyard, either, but it can keep it interesting.<br /><br />Anyway, one long post countered with another, and I am truly flattered and heartened by your comments.lizardrinkinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10631267904133624562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5848358410529477558.post-76226823892807233772009-04-28T10:05:00.000+08:002009-04-28T10:05:00.000+08:00OK, now I'm starting to get a bit pissed off. If ...OK, now I'm starting to get a bit pissed off. If I was at PAN since January, and you were there the whole time, why wasn't I gently nudged toward your mind-blowingly fantastic blog before?<br /><br />You're one person? This blog is just so stunningly well-written, comprehensive, and in synchro-sympatico with my political worldview that I'm just dumb-founded that I found out I was so dumb at finding about it.<br /><br />You even pay tribute to my NUMBER ONE favorite political columnist, Glenn Greenwald. (Robert Fisk of the Independent is probably second, particularly on anything to do with the mid-east.)<br /><br />You are PR on PAN, right?<br /><br />If so, I see why you're so brief when you're there. Because you're so busy here. I gave mamason a run-down of my impressions of PAN people a couple of weeks ago. About you, I said I could tell by the way you pick up on the subtleties of how words are used, that you were really smart, but that I didn't know much about you because you're posts are so brief.<br /><br />I'm truly in awe of your blog. I'd say more, but I swore an oath in my last comment, to be brief in the next. The next?<br /><br />Cheers,<br /><br />TOSTheOldSchoolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02177279286581027697noreply@blogger.com