re: Konishiki the crooner? & Japan Visit

[Dale Carlson <drc@oz.net>]

At 10:10 PM 10/2/98 +0900, Doreen Simmons wrote:
>Yup. I did. Exactly a year ago. Konishiki was obviously having an off day
>and the rendition was horrible. I have, however, heard him sing better.

Better than horrible isn't exactly a rave review. Is that how
we should take this? :)

And at 10:03 PM 10/2/98 +1000, Anne Doggett wrote:
>It was a pity there were so many empty seats in the stadium, and 
>after talking to young people in Japan it seems that it is not 
>"cool" to like sumo at the moment.

Of the under-25 year old Japanese people I know, (a small sample
of 4 :) all describe sumo as "dorkey". I'm not sure what the
English translation of that is, but I suspect it isn't good :)

Dale