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Friday, February 16, 2001
aurrrrrrrg! damnit blogger! deleting my entries. anyway, my new japan travels journal at diaryland is alive and kickin'! come check out the new site! i know that right now it's a bunch of pre-departure ramblings, but i promise it will get better after i am actually on japanese soil again. but i added a new guestbook (because the old one was ugly as hell). please please stop by the site and sign it! show me your love!
good god...aol needs to do something about the constant stream of porn that appears in its members' mailboxes. some of us find that stuff repulsive. . . Wednesday, February 14, 2001
Tuesday, February 13, 2001
arrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggg. i hate diaryland! i can't get my archives page to work correctly! anyone know diaryland who can tell me why only one entry's archive shows up? (right now i do only have one entry because i deleted a bunch of test entries, but when i had four, only one showed up). anyway, i think i got my journal page to do what i want it to do. as usual, it must be viewed in internet explorer 5.0 or better (netscape sucks. it should be outlawed!). check it out! i'm working late tonight. i kind of like tuesdays because i don't have to wake up at the buttcrack of dawn. but at the same time, i have to stay at work till 11:30ish pm. of course i only complain before i get there. once i actually get to work, the time flies by. Sunday, February 11, 2001
update: i changed a few things on my music page. i added a blurb about sarah mclachlan (i had to. her songs are too rich in good memories for me to leave her out), updated some information about rose polenzani and the indigo girls, and changed the order of blurbs around a bit.
oops. i forgot the reason i had logged into blogger in the first place. it was good to get some of that off my chest, but i have news. while i am in japan (whoo hoo!), i will be keeping an on-line travel journal. there's nothing much there now (besides the template), but you can find it at http://japantravels.diaryland.com. be sure to check it daily in april!
it's been a while. today i saw save the last dance. by far one of the best movies i've seen in a long time. julia stiles is great as usual. excellent story. well acted. so i guess it was worth the 8 bucks. i will (eventually) comment on the us submarine/uwajima fishing ship crash, but right now i am too depressed. i think that a lot of americans are expressing their ethnocentrism and anti-japanese racism. i'm sick of fighting this. japan is so near and dear to me and to hear people use the word "japs" makes me sick to my stomach. how archaic and stupid. "revenge for pearl harbor!"? i don't fucken think so. what about hiroshima and nagasaki? and not to mention that these young students should be blamed for pearl harbor and the rape of nanking about as much as i should be blamed for the a-bombs and the japanese concentration camps. neither i nor those students have anything to do with the past. ok, i suppose i am ranting now and not to mention that wwii ended over 50 years ago! look, all countries (japan is no exception) have ugly stuff in their histories. americans can't run too far away from their ugly truths (slavery, treatment of native americans, jim crow, witch trials, and the list goes on and on). this country is in no way "better" than japan. it sickens me to hear people talking about how this tragedy was payback for wwii. if so, then america owes a LOT of "payment" to a LOT of people. and so does every other country. this was an accident. i don't think the american navy ever wanted this to happen. on the same note, this did not teach the japanese a "lesson" about pearl harbor. it wasn't meant to. and it shouldn't have. i feel horrible for the families in japan who have lost their children as a result of this accident. i also feel for the us navy since they had never intended for this to happen. i just wish that some of my fellow americans would let go of their archaic views of japan and the japanese. maybe if they actually visited japan and/or studied their culture, they (americans) would see how groundless and childish their racism and ethnocentrism is. |
