I'll have to take your word for that, Swordsman. The programme of which you speak is unknown to me. I would venture that the chap is probably still better known in his own right - as a TV presenter and "comedian" - than as a sci-fi character.
And - not to spoil the fun of your jeering perversity, Mothman - but for anyone else out there who's curious about the logic of the picture choices, and hasn't quite got the hang of Blogspot yet..... if you place the mouse-pointer over the picture, you see a pop-up balloon telling you what the photograph's filename. Easy-peasy.
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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Okay, I give up...the top one is OBVIOUSLY a Daffodil but who's the Hoopy Frood with the Giglamps?
He's Ianto from Torchwood...
'Daffodil Ianto' seems to be pushing it a little, Froog ;-) You been hitting the old Tsing Tao again? :-)
I'll have to take your word for that, Swordsman. The programme of which you speak is unknown to me. I would venture that the chap is probably still better known in his own right - as a TV presenter and "comedian" - than as a sci-fi character.
And - not to spoil the fun of your jeering perversity, Mothman - but for anyone else out there who's curious about the logic of the picture choices, and hasn't quite got the hang of Blogspot yet..... if you place the mouse-pointer over the picture, you see a pop-up balloon telling you what the photograph's filename. Easy-peasy.
Not with Mozilla you don't :-)
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