Have you noticed, Moonrat, how so many proprietary medicines somehow sound like the names of characters in fantasy fiction? Nyquil, a devious Baron of The Marches, in league with The Dark One.
BBC Radio many years ago did a spoof of 'Lord of the Rings' called 'Hordes of the Things'. One of the great gags in that was that all the wizards were named after brands of bath salts: Baddedas the Blue, Radox the Green, Fenjal the Pink.
Sorry to hear you're under the weather too. Shame about you missing your date. But I'm sure Enrique will give you a second chance.
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.]
5 comments:
Well, you will drink, won't you! Hell slap it into you...
Actually, very little drinking this week. Just 'flu and insomnia and long days and A LOT of travelling...
sneezing stuffy nose
can't bear to go on that date
drinking on the couch
also: all the truth of the world in only TWO syllables!
NYQUIL!
(although I've heard that maybe it's not available in china)
Have you noticed, Moonrat, how so many proprietary medicines somehow sound like the names of characters in fantasy fiction? Nyquil, a devious Baron of The Marches, in league with The Dark One.
BBC Radio many years ago did a spoof of 'Lord of the Rings' called 'Hordes of the Things'. One of the great gags in that was that all the wizards were named after brands of bath salts: Baddedas the Blue, Radox the Green, Fenjal the Pink.
Sorry to hear you're under the weather too. Shame about you missing your date. But I'm sure Enrique will give you a second chance.
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