Last gasps of life...

shannon...@gmail.com

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Jan 18, 2023, 3:14:17 PM1/18/23

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usenet is dead.

Where did I read that? That place must have died, too?

Parting question: Does anyone know of any website like flij in its active days? (Just looked for something like it on Mastodon, but...)

Maybe I'll check back in a few months. Or years? (Unless I'm dead, too.)

Band Beyond Youall

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Jan 19, 2023, 12:44:54 AM1/19/23

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Wait…don’t go!

John W.

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Jan 19, 2023, 11:36:58 AM1/19/23

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Google still tells me about these messages, so maybe it's not quite dead. Of course, Google tells me lots of shit.

John W.

Jim Breen

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Jan 19, 2023, 7:29:54 PM1/19/23

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I find the "Deep in Japan" Facebook group slightly similar - gaijin sharing stories, etc.

I miss flij, slj, etc. They were a major part of my interaction with Japan and Japanese in that distant time.

Anyone here remember the weekend get-together in Tokyo in early 2001? ISTR we went to Yokohama and Odaiba, and had dinner together in Roppongi.

Jim

Wasabi

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Jan 24, 2023, 8:14:18 PM1/24/23

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Did anyone ever get to meet Cindy?
Or fly with her? ^_^

Band Beyond Youall

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Jan 24, 2023, 10:18:13 PM1/24/23

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And who can forget Michael Cash and his gaijin trucker posts?

John W.

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Jan 25, 2023, 12:01:08 PM1/25/23

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I wonder what happened to Mike. I assumed he'd be on Instagram, since he was a big photography person, but from time to time I search for him and nothing comes up. When I saw the book (and then show) Tokyo Vice it made me think that maybe Mike's origin story is better in some ways, because it's probably harder to become a trucker in Japan than a journalist.

John W.

Jim Breen

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Jan 25, 2023, 3:20:29 PM1/25/23

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On Wednesday, 25 January 2023 at 12:14:18 UTC+11, Wasabi wrote:
> Jim Breen <jimb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I miss flij, slj, etc. They were a major part of my interaction
> with Japan and Japanese in that distant time.

> Did anyone ever get to meet Cindy?

I did. We met at Shinjuku and had lunch together. Early 2001.
Jim

Jim Breen

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Jan 25, 2023, 3:25:01 PM1/25/23

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On Thursday, 26 January 2023 at 04:01:08 UTC+11, John W. wrote:
> > And who can forget Michael Cash and his gaijin trucker posts?
> I wonder what happened to Mike. I assumed he'd be on Instagram, since he was a big photography person, but from time to time I search for him and nothing comes up. When I saw the book (and then show) Tokyo Vice it made me think that maybe Mike's origin story is better in some ways, because it's probably harder to become a trucker in Japan than a journalist.

Quite a few slj and fjliij people moved to a blogging site called The Japan Page. Mike was there for a while. The site stopped working eventually.

Jim

Band Beyond Youall

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Jan 25, 2023, 11:54:44 PM1/25/23

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Sans Mike Cash, there’s always @truckmeimei on Twitter and Instagram, the
accounts of a 20-something female trucker in Japan…