This is about as good a place as any: I'm SO sorry to have been such a will-o'-the-wisp here in the last couple weeks, especially since you managed to unsnarl the comment problem for me. It's been a hell of a time, especially at work. My own blogging really isn't up to a level I'm comfortable with, and I'm considering radical and quite rash counter-measures like a new two-part "What's in a Song" thing just to get it kick-started. Except I've had scant time for kick-starting.
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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This is about as good a place as any: I'm SO sorry to have been such a will-o'-the-wisp here in the last couple weeks, especially since you managed to unsnarl the comment problem for me. It's been a hell of a time, especially at work. My own blogging really isn't up to a level I'm comfortable with, and I'm considering radical and quite rash counter-measures like a new two-part "What's in a Song" thing just to get it kick-started. Except I've had scant time for kick-starting.
Sigh.
Well, I look forward to that. What's in a song is always a particular highlight.
Sorry to hear you've been so busy. Thanks for taking the time to catch up here (my, you have been busy!). Sorry I didn't notice yesterday.
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