I don't know... dinner with a good friend can be well worth the distance traveled ;) [not to say we're friends.]
(But, it certainly wouldn't be the "first" time I've crossed a thousand miles to spend an evening conversing over a plate of fragrant rice.)
Reminds me of that song (the proclaimers?): I will walk 500 miles and I will walk 500 more to be that man who walks a thousand miles to fall down at your door...
A leading presenter on China Central Television's English-language channel has revealed himself to be a xenophobic hate-monger. WHY does he still have a job? Lobby for his dismissal - by any and all means.
Days Ai Weiwei was detained
80
With ironic, sinister symmetry, the celebrity artist/activist was incarcerated on the same day that my friend Wu Yuren was finally released from 10 months' detention.
Now, like Wu, he's been released on extremely restrictive 'bail' terms - but could face re-arrest at any moment. He was detained incommunicado from April 3rd to June 22nd 2011.
Days Wu Yuren was in prison
307
"Released on parole" after 10 months; "parole" lifted another year later. The original charges against him were apparently dropped without his trial ever being formally concluded.
Froog is an escaped lawyer - but there is no need for alarm; he is only a danger to himself, not to the general public. An eternal wanderer, he now lives in an exotic city somewhere in the 'Third World' *, where he is held prisoner by an unfinished novel (or, more precisely, an unstarted novel). He spends a lot of time running, writing, taking photographs, and falling in love with women who fail to appreciate him. He also spends a lot of time in bars.
[* OK, I'll come clean: I've been living in Beijing since summer '02.]
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interesting blog.
What's this?? A new visitor!
How much did you read, HALL? Will you be back?
pakizzah? old hindi songs? where are you mr. HALL? Would you like to meet for dinner sometime!
I think he's in Nepal. That's rather a long way to go for dinner!
I don't know... dinner with a good friend can be well worth the distance traveled ;) [not to say we're friends.]
(But, it certainly wouldn't be the "first" time I've crossed a thousand miles to spend an evening conversing over a plate of fragrant rice.)
Reminds me of that song (the proclaimers?): I will walk 500 miles and I will walk 500 more to be that man who walks a thousand miles to fall down at your door...
And just think how good the food would be. mmmmm Nepalese food.
:) Caren - you understandeth the allure of the food!
I used to say one who knows good food is always a good friend of mine!
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