[sumo] [SPOILERS] Day 1 Absences (Non-sekitori)

[Doreen Simmons]

Thanks, as always, Jeanne. In a couple of places: Oooh! say it ain't so!

Meanwhile back at the Rancho Grande --no, I'm still in Ryogoku, aren't 
I? we are swinging into action. Tomorrow, my spies inform me, David 
Shapiro will be on with Ross Mihara, ever young and gorgeous 
(especially if you're my age). I don't have all the bookings in place 
but on Sunday Nakabi I will be appearing, voice-wise,  with Hiro 
Morita, the only Japanese-born play-by-playman, always a pleasure to 
work with. There is a special guest on the Japanese side who I am 
assured is a very famous and well-informed man and I will be 
desperately looking him up.

I still remember the time I had to deal with a Japanese version of Miss 
Piggie -- (whose name my Japanese teacher of the time couldn't read 
because she wasn't  into that kind of Japanese culture) and I found her 
to be a very talented enka singer who had really gone through the mill, 
much like a rikishi but without the physical violence. Fortunately I 
had some background with enka singers and managed the linkage. My most 
precious memory of that broadcast is of the simultaneous interpreter 
just solemnly nodding her head as I told of the apprenticeship.

Doreen

So, my mind is open.

Doreen Simmons
  jz8d-smmn at asahi-net.or.jp