Comments on: A Confession

By: Eigenstatic

Eigenstatic — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:02:16 +0000

haha, awesome. It was hilarious the first time you told the story, but doubly so now that I see you went on to post the full tale on your blog!

Ohhhhh, the inner turmoil of teh pnts. I can hear your soul right now, it’s saying…
“scccrrrrccccch!”

;)

By: pnts

pnts — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:20:03 +0000

@F.Ha – I’m glad you enjoyed the story :). I was totally blindsided by this experience, just assumed it was a night out like any other. I think someone mentioned that they’ve eaten live squid before as well. You may yet encounter living food…

Cheers!

By: F. Ha

F. Ha — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:48:57 +0000

That was like the best story I have ever read about Japan.
I sort of wish I had experiences like that, unfortunately I don’t, maybe it’s because I tend to blend in.

I also live in Japan, and honestly live lobster is the craziest thing I’ve heard of yet. Its oddly intriguing.

Cheers for tackling that situation head on!

By: pnts

pnts — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:11:43 +0000

Hey Papa, thanks for the feedback! I think a good subtitle, or addition might be, “A Confession About Tail”, which gives more insight but at first glance leads you to think I did something very naughty.

By: walter

walter — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:02:37 +0000

This is a funny funny story! Very well written, a pleasure to read and also well managed the suspense. From paragraph 1, the reader knows that something strange is going on and wants to read more. The situation is very well crafted, the ämbience” well described and the situation hilarious. The sentence, “eating while i am alive” is another wonderful hook that finds its closure in the lobster being eaten. I will just add a subtitle, some thing like a confession about lobsters and japan restaurants or some kind sentence that will hook the reader from the beginning.

Also, the story has 850, a common number of words for op eds in news papers and the like. Well done!

By: pnts

pnts — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:03:29 +0000

@Joel – Yeah, I hear you on that one. Eating living creatures is best done by lions and their ilk. There is something about dashing after your prey and then tearing it apart with jaws-of-steel that makes it okay. Sitting around a table with no idea where the lobster came from and dining on its flesh with utensils *is* pretty sickening. I actually hesitated before posting this, since a Google search revealed a couple posts on the subject with really nasty comments. I generally don’t enjoy being told to fuck-off and die.

Have a good sleep. :)

By: Eftu

Eftu — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:51:21 +0000

Hahaha…

By: Joel

Joel — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:56:53 +0000

I generally compliment people who dares to try new things, but I’m not sure on this one. It’s way too macabre for my taste. I eat meat and I have no problem with it what so ever – just to clear that out – but this actually made me a bit sick. You just don’t do that to a living creature. Period.

I don’t pass any judgement on you on this one, since I guess we’re somewhat on the same page since you actually wrote an article about it all. I’m just thinking of those who order it and especially the restaurant. Now I’ll stop this blabbering and do something important. Like sleeping.

Thanks for sharing. :-)