Er, do you have see this formatting problem where the sidebar is bumped down to the bottom of the page? (And there are some very weird and annoying things going on with the page layout over on The Barstool!!)
Have a LOT of ground to make up here, both reading and commenting, from the last week. Scribble scribble, eh, Mr. Froog? :) Looking forward to it!
For now, though, I don't know if your sidebar formatting has worked itself out but I never noticed a problem from here.
Speaking of your formatting, though, I don't think I've ever read the origin of your Mr. Natural(ish?) quest-into-the-unknown avatar at the top of the sidebar. Is there a story?
I think this post is all I've ever written on the Mr Natural connection. I know your curiosity is insatiable, but I hope this at least takes the edge off it for a while.
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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You're certainly jazzing my vocabulary today... Crow-scarers! Hutongs! Tannoy!
Education is my field!
Er, do you have see this formatting problem where the sidebar is bumped down to the bottom of the page? (And there are some very weird and annoying things going on with the page layout over on The Barstool!!)
Formatting seems to have sorted itself out on the Barstool but not here.
Have a LOT of ground to make up here, both reading and commenting, from the last week. Scribble scribble, eh, Mr. Froog? :) Looking forward to it!
For now, though, I don't know if your sidebar formatting has worked itself out but I never noticed a problem from here.
Speaking of your formatting, though, I don't think I've ever read the origin of your Mr. Natural(ish?) quest-into-the-unknown avatar at the top of the sidebar. Is there a story?
[Word verif. a good sign: coper.]
I think this post is all I've ever written on the Mr Natural connection. I know your curiosity is insatiable, but I hope this at least takes the edge off it for a while.
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