Well, I could be tempted - but I wouldn't want to appear easy, now, would I? And I think there are lots of other people champing at the bit to get a 'Robert the Publisher' t-shirt, so I shouldn't let them down. As the only person (as far as I know) who has been promised one, I am rather the champion of their cause.
What do we want? "Robert the Publisher's Gem of the Day" T-shirts! When do we want them? NOW!!
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.]
3 comments:
thank you!
re: your t-shirt. it's hard to get my act together. would you take liquor or a book or a combination of the two instead?
Well, I could be tempted - but I wouldn't want to appear easy, now, would I? And I think there are lots of other people champing at the bit to get a 'Robert the Publisher' t-shirt, so I shouldn't let them down. As the only person (as far as I know) who has been promised one, I am rather the champion of their cause.
What do we want? "Robert the Publisher's Gem of the Day" T-shirts! When do we want them? NOW!!
Hasn't that Llama been spray-painted?
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