I'm so jealous... horrible conditions here for the past couple weeks, and apparently for the indefinite future.
The main difference between the summer climates in the northeastern and southeastern regions of the US is not, I think, the temperature differential -- nor even the humidity. It's that after a thunderstorm down here, we have no relief: the only change is that there's now steam in the air, just in case the humidity saturating everything should feel lonely.
I'd always had rather romantic notions of life in Florida - unsullied by direct experience (other than a rather pleasant evening in Jacksonville a long time ago: early summer, but unhumid).
I've spent quite a bit of time in NO, and the late afternoon thunderstorms there are usually very refreshing. I guess it helps to be near the coast. Are you some ways inland?
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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I'm so jealous... horrible conditions here for the past couple weeks, and apparently for the indefinite future.
The main difference between the summer climates in the northeastern and southeastern regions of the US is not, I think, the temperature differential -- nor even the humidity. It's that after a thunderstorm down here, we have no relief: the only change is that there's now steam in the air, just in case the humidity saturating everything should feel lonely.
Really? Yikes!
I'd always had rather romantic notions of life in Florida - unsullied by direct experience (other than a rather pleasant evening in Jacksonville a long time ago: early summer, but unhumid).
I've spent quite a bit of time in NO, and the late afternoon thunderstorms there are usually very refreshing. I guess it helps to be near the coast. Are you some ways inland?
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