Noon sky black as night, Buildings tremble at thunder. Nightmarish portents.
Yes, a couple of days ago Beijing suffered a most unusual - nay, verily APOCALYPTIC - tropical storm.
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Indeed, apocalyptic is the very word I would use to describe Wednesday's sudden midday blackout. Quite eerie.
Darkening sky holds Memories of Childhood Sights Rolling Dust, Rain Pours.
From the rooftop of my grandfather's home, I watched the rolling brown clouds sweep over the mountains, turning day to night and dropping buckets of water on us before we had time to think to come out of the monsoon rains.
Under normal circumstances, last Wednesday I would have been caught in a similar Wet sitch. Luckily (unluckily?) I was working at a window-side desk and witnessed the sky blackout from the safety of 40 floors of glass.
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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Indeed, apocalyptic is the very word I would use to describe Wednesday's sudden midday blackout. Quite eerie.
Darkening sky holds
Memories of Childhood Sights
Rolling Dust, Rain Pours.
From the rooftop of my grandfather's home, I watched the rolling brown clouds sweep over the mountains, turning day to night and dropping buckets of water on us before we had time to think to come out of the monsoon rains.
Under normal circumstances, last Wednesday I would have been caught in a similar Wet sitch. Luckily (unluckily?) I was working at a window-side desk and witnessed the sky blackout from the safety of 40 floors of glass.
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