This may be one reason why I like blogging (others' as well as my own) -- sharing the old things makes them new again.
(Which reminds me of a favorite moment in All That Jazz. I know YouTube is flaky for you, but on the off-chance it's working, the moment is captured here. Ann Reinking was always a fantasy girlfriend of mine!)
Thanks, JES. I'll try that in a while; YouTube has been rather more functional these last few days (although I always seem to have a problem with the audio and videolinks on your blog; I look forward to "catching up" on a lot of stuff there when I go on holiday shortly).
Funnily enough, I watched All That Jazz again just a few months ago. "It's showtime, folks!"
Well if you come and stay in Alexandria, you will see an interesting combo of old and new - I know you are pretty experienced with Old Town, but Delray will be novel.
And as for Old Town, I probably hang at different places to the ones you are used to.
Nothing really to do with the quote, but a shameless reintroduction to the blog for me...
Try to give me a little bit of lead time. I need to clean the basement up a little so you can have your own level with ensuite bathroom...
Let me know what airport too. As long as it isn't a bad time of day, I'll pick you up from Dulles. If it is National, it's a piece of piss - I am around 2 miles from that place.
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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A familiar sensation.
This may be one reason why I like blogging (others' as well as my own) -- sharing the old things makes them new again.
(Which reminds me of a favorite moment in All That Jazz. I know YouTube is flaky for you, but on the off-chance it's working, the moment is captured here. Ann Reinking was always a fantasy girlfriend of mine!)
Thanks, JES. I'll try that in a while; YouTube has been rather more functional these last few days (although I always seem to have a problem with the audio and videolinks on your blog; I look forward to "catching up" on a lot of stuff there when I go on holiday shortly).
Funnily enough, I watched All That Jazz again just a few months ago. "It's showtime, folks!"
Well if you come and stay in Alexandria, you will see an interesting combo of old and new - I know you are pretty experienced with Old Town, but Delray will be novel.
And as for Old Town, I probably hang at different places to the ones you are used to.
Nothing really to do with the quote, but a shameless reintroduction to the blog for me...
It's all coming into place, Cowboy.
If Jimbob can sort me a London-DC ticket, I'm hoping to wash up on your doorstep round about next Thursday.
Try to give me a little bit of lead time. I need to clean the basement up a little so you can have your own level with ensuite bathroom...
Let me know what airport too. As long as it isn't a bad time of day, I'll pick you up from Dulles. If it is National, it's a piece of piss - I am around 2 miles from that place.
National would indeed be super-duper, but I think all the international flights come into Dulles or BWI.
Hope to be able to advise later today.
Yes. National is, after all, a National airport. There are no customs/immigration facilities there.
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