Comments on: Cleaning and Muppets http://edpas.net/journal/195/ Art, Photos, Cross-Cultural Miscellany, and Food Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:49:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ed http://edpas.net/journal/195/comment-page-1/#comment-228 Ed Fri, 22 Jul 2005 07:24:18 +0000 http://edpas.net/bog/?p=195#comment-228 Mark, regarding the sonic mayhem, I've been planning to write about the sounds of Japan. Not sure how soon it's going to happen. As for posts from which to steal wit, I can't make any promises about quality, but I <em>am</em> planning to write much more about Japan. If you do pretend to have moved to England, I'd like to be in on the correspondence. Mark, regarding the sonic mayhem, I’ve been planning to write about the sounds of Japan. Not sure how soon it’s going to happen.

As for posts from which to steal wit, I can’t make any promises about quality, but I am planning to write much more about Japan. If you do pretend to have moved to England, I’d like to be in on the correspondence.

]]> By: Mark d. Werdel http://edpas.net/journal/195/comment-page-1/#comment-225 Mark d. Werdel Wed, 20 Jul 2005 13:43:42 +0000 http://edpas.net/bog/?p=195#comment-225 in the earliest days of our residence here when cracking my head on doorways and the subsequent mental threats to burn this cinderblock of a home to the ground were daily occurences, it seemed that the most terrible cacophonies of baseball playing-calisthenic rhythm screaming-brass band scale butchering youths always accompanied the worst moments. Since then Japan has continually proven its exquisitely appropriate (and almost preternatural) sense of decorum for every occasion. perhaps then, festival bells, cymbals, flutes, and drums were the natural choice for moving day. marching on so to speak... thanks for all the posts, Ed. Sadly, I'll no longer be able to borrow your wit for my own emails home. unless of course, I can convince my family that Carol and I have moved to England. it's a thought. then again, there's always your archives. p.s. the Overtime short is amazing. thank you. in the earliest days of our residence here when cracking my head on doorways and the subsequent mental threats to burn this cinderblock of a home to the ground were daily occurences, it seemed that the most terrible cacophonies of baseball playing-calisthenic rhythm screaming-brass band scale butchering youths always accompanied the worst moments. Since then Japan has continually proven its exquisitely appropriate (and almost preternatural) sense of decorum for every occasion.
perhaps then, festival bells, cymbals, flutes, and drums were the natural choice for moving day. marching on so to speak…
thanks for all the posts, Ed. Sadly, I’ll no longer be able to borrow your wit for my own emails home. unless of course, I can convince my family that Carol and I have moved to England. it’s a thought. then again, there’s always your archives.
p.s. the Overtime short is amazing. thank you.

]]> By: Lia http://edpas.net/journal/195/comment-page-1/#comment-217 Lia Tue, 19 Jul 2005 02:43:09 +0000 http://edpas.net/bog/?p=195#comment-217 Ed - in your understandably shell-shocked state (induced by too much cleaning & packing) you forgot to mention that the kids were practicing for the upcoming Tobata Gion (the local HUGE festival). I think it was more like 4 hours of practice. Over, and over, and over, and over. By the end the cymbals, bells, and taiko were mostly in synch with each other though! The flutes were still out of tune... Ed – in your understandably shell-shocked state (induced by too much cleaning & packing) you forgot to mention that the kids were practicing for the upcoming Tobata Gion (the local HUGE festival).

I think it was more like 4 hours of practice. Over, and over, and over, and over. By the end the cymbals, bells, and taiko were mostly in synch with each other though! The flutes were still out of tune…

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