Earthquake?
Japan’s North Hit by Magnitude-6.8 Quake; 106 Injured
July 24 (Bloomberg) …The quake hit Honshu island at 12:26 a.m. local time at a depth of 108 kilometers (67 miles), the agency said. The quake struck about 120 kilometers east of the city of Akita…more…
YIKES!
I have two emails from the States wanting to know if the I survived the magnitude-6.8 earthquake?
Earthquake?
I just woke up and this is the first I’ve heard of it….
…She-e-e-it!I just turned on the TV to discover it was no where near Tokyo, as the US media apparently had it shaking the whole of Japan in epic proportions.
NHK public TV is gonna be 24/7 with train cancellations right in the middle of the the time many Japanese folks are taking summer vacations and trying to escape the heat up in northern Japan.
Anyway, here in Tokyo it is Rock ‘n’ Roll ….NOT.
UPDATE by the 3Yen’s reporter-at-large den4-san
You have to remember that in the US, that Japan is a teeny tiny microscopic country tinier than Micronesia and you need a microscope to see the people living there, including yourself…like in the movie, Fantastic Voyage….everybody there gets micro-sized, and so when there’s a HUGE earthquake in Japan, the ENTIRE NATION is affected…unless you are on Bobblehead world, where everybody has big heads and they go through life bobbling around…..
unlike Blinkyworld, where Tokyo Gov. ‘Blinky Ishihara’ resides….
Governor Blinky and the G-8 Bobbleheads for context
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July 25th, 2008 at 8:15 am
You’ve been in Japan too long, Taro-sama….you have to remember that in the US, that Japan is a teeny tiny microscopic country tinier than micronesia and you need a microscope to see the people living there, including yourself…like in the movie, Fantastic Voyage….everybody there gets micro-sized, and so when there’s a HUGE earthquake in Japan, the ENTIRE NATION is affected…unless you are on Bobblehead world, where everybody has big heads and they go through life bobbling around…..
unlike Blinkyworld, where Blinky Ishihara resides….
July 25th, 2008 at 9:51 am
For context, here’s Tokyo Governor Blinky and the G-8 Bobbleheads.
July 25th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
From where come the blinky nickname ? it was banned by Tanaka the she-male nazy mod from japan today but i yet have to understand the why and what…
July 25th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Gov. Blinky Ishihara has one hell of nervous eye tick and blinks like the raving madman that he is.
Even with video editing you can see it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwGbfMoCuHU
Japanese print and broadcast standards prohibit the Japanese word for blinky; that is, “Chiku” syndrome for people with severe nervous ticks.
July 26th, 2008 at 12:13 am
ah… thanks… not exactly the biggest problem with this guy anyway.
But so cute to see the media nicely following orders… banning words… like if japanese was not enough of a newspeak already…
August 1st, 2008 at 2:10 pm
News where I am in Kansas, (the GMT -6 one) tries to turn rain into a sound-the-klaxons (feed the Morloks!) event, claiming hail and tornadoes at the least sign of an energetic atmosphere. A charitable person K.O.-ing commenter 1 with a champagne bottle to the back of the head, and explaining for them, might say that she’d merely become suggestible and starstruck and figured 6.8 was very like 6.8 on the Richter Scale, therefore it seemed logical that there would be new islands the size of South Korea for Japan to annex as soon as they cooled (and the precooked fish were harvested.)