I don't believe you have quite the same problem in NYC, m'dear. We are talking about 4-and-a-half days in which the light levels never got better than pre-dawn, and the air was so thick with dust and smoke that visibility was down to half a mile.
It cheered up again on Friday afternoon, and it looks as though we're going to have a superb weekend. Hope you are too.
I did laundry for the first time in over a week last night. Turns out the drain outside blocked, and the torrential rain came into my laundry room.
Fortunately I am a messy bastard, and I left towels/sheets on the floor because I could not be bothered to wash them last time. So they prevented excessive damage.
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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dude. how can the weather be this bad on BOTH sides of the world?!
I don't believe you have quite the same problem in NYC, m'dear. We are talking about 4-and-a-half days in which the light levels never got better than pre-dawn, and the air was so thick with dust and smoke that visibility was down to half a mile.
It cheered up again on Friday afternoon, and it looks as though we're going to have a superb weekend. Hope you are too.
I did laundry for the first time in over a week last night. Turns out the drain outside blocked, and the torrential rain came into my laundry room.
Fortunately I am a messy bastard, and I left towels/sheets on the floor because I could not be bothered to wash them last time. So they prevented excessive damage.
Oh, and I'm back...
Ah, happy 'accidents'!
I fear I am about to become reacquainted with your domestic squalor all too soon.
Nice to have you back after such a long absence, Cowboy.
But - why are you over here rather than over there?
'Twas nothing that caught my eye to comment on over there.
Over There, Over There.
Send the word, send the word
Over There
That the Yanks are coming, The Yanks are coming...
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