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.]
4 comments:
Well hello, Froogy - good to see you back where you belong :-)
Kudos to you (as our transatlantic friends say) for avoiding the obvious 'Parton' references...and associated ovine ones, of course :-)
Nice Primate :-) Sure as hell beats those damned south American Camelids...
Do we get a reference at some stage to melting watches and obscure islands off the Kenya coast?
Ah, I don't think I know that island. Obscure indeed!
I was thinking more of Bing & Bob's sarong-clad cutie.
And here I was waiting for Ms Parton at some stage.
Of course...forgot that we had a Lamour as well as a Lamarr...
Lamu island - used to be part of Zanzibar.
Yes, I was kinda hoping to see Ms. Parton too :-) I guess you know why 'Dolly The Sheep' was called 'Dolly'? Or has it slipped your mammary?
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