tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983828.post113730076304424791..comments2024-01-15T23:32:18.495-06:00Comments on Metrolingua: Face of stoneMargaret Larkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421277669200495407noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983828.post-1138306481556954592006-01-26T14:14:00.000-06:002006-01-26T14:14:00.000-06:00Are you responding to a comment I made on your sit...Are you responding to a comment I made on your site? I need to check out that post again--I remember it being about kids laughing at an exhibit.<BR/><BR/>Maybe they were laughing out of discomfort.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983828.post-1138026044083746552006-01-23T08:20:00.000-06:002006-01-23T08:20:00.000-06:00I'm sorry to hear the Monk new season premier was ...I'm sorry to hear the Monk new season premier was a bust. It has been perhaps the only US show to air on Japanese TV (on NHK's BS) that I can enjoy watching. Of course, previous contenders like "Will and Grace" or "Greg and Dharma" set the bar pretty low.<BR/><BR/>As for the nuclear bombing (great transition, eh?), I've been to both Nagasaki and Hiroshima, to both museums (Hiroshima's is far more shocking). Both beautiful cities. Given the US casualties in Okinawa and elsewhere in the Pacific, the brutality of Bataan, the <I>kamikaze</I> bombers, the suicides by women and children to avoid US soldiers, and so on, I think they were regrettably proper and certainly effective in bringing a surrender. Without them, how bloody would the land invasion of the main islands been (cf. Okinawa)? A Canadian I know here in town happened to bring this topic up the other day; a vocal Dem Yank on hand and I brought up Okinawa (surprised the Dem agreed with me), but the Canadian drew a blank--it was just those bloodthirsty cowboy racist Yanks, right?--though he conceded we might have a point.<BR/><BR/>When I went to the Hiroshima museum, I was shocked to see Japanese jr. high kids laughing, pointing, mimicking the mannequins of A-bomb victims, skin melting off their bodies and they creep to the river to die with marginally less suffering. It made me quite angry, but I didn't say anything to them, feeling guilty as I was (the tiny sack of someone's thumb's skin (thumbnail still attached) haunts me still.comrade_tovarichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11215119975838529461noreply@blogger.com