Continuing my occasional series of illustrated puns. Not sure where this one is from; but I've always had a special affection for jokes and stories featuring The Reaper.
Of course, it is a tad depressing when I put out all this great content, and the ONLY comments I attract all week are for reposting someone else's cartoon.
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.]
6 comments:
Awesome, made my Friday!
http://xkcd.com/788/
In the same genre. :)
Ha! Thanks, El. A bit out of the usual run for XKCD.
Of course, it is a tad depressing when I put out all this great content, and the ONLY comments I attract all week are for reposting someone else's cartoon.
I see that the comments picked up when you mentioned getting hit by a car. Perhaps people are just waiting for more posts on death and destruction?
It might have been the 'Tank Man' reference as well.
Or just the beginning-of-the-week phenomenon: I get most of my readers on Monday.
I try not to court the more ghoulish blog-reader
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