No, Froog, I am well equipped with amnesia and have no need to feign it. And I don't give a furball for the wrath of cat-lovers: they are a bunch of wussers. And I write this while dear Misty, who has just woken up after her daily eight hours nap and is idly licking her bum. She will then whine until she gets a snack before going back to sleep. You can see the lazy beast, looking uncharacteristically alert, by following my link above. Misty is in the centre photo.
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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The good Mr B was trying to disown this remark, apparently having forgotten that he had made it.
I suspect this amnesia was only feigned, to try to protect himself from the wrath of the online community of cat-lovers.
Me, I rather like the idea of trying to outdo the laziness and selfishness of a cat. I think I might get myself one.
Cats, the Teamsters of the animal kingdom.
No, Froog, I am well equipped with amnesia and have no need to feign it.
And I don't give a furball for the wrath of cat-lovers: they are a bunch of wussers.
And I write this while dear Misty, who has just woken up after her daily eight hours nap and is idly licking her bum. She will then whine until she gets a snack before going back to sleep.
You can see the lazy beast, looking uncharacteristically alert, by following my link above. Misty is in the centre photo.
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