That's probably true of everyone, isn't it? Well, apart from full-time epigrammatists like Wilde and Johnson...
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Glad I am not the only one!
Hey, just wanted to drop a quick comment and let you know I am no longer just a frequent commenter, but now also a fellow blogger. Its all explained here:
http://hopfrogswalkabout.blogspot.com/
Feel free to drop me a comment. I probably won't be able to comment here as much (going to be hard to stay as chatty typing on a cellphone in the middle of the woods), but I will certainly keep reading!
Wow - that's a pretty extreme undertaking, HF. I'm rather envious: I would be mighty tempted to attempt something similar myself - if only I could take a 6-month break from work!
Best of luck with it. I look forward to hearing some of the stories from the adventure.
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.]
2 comments:
Glad I am not the only one!
Hey, just wanted to drop a quick comment and let you know I am no longer just a frequent commenter, but now also a fellow blogger. Its all explained here:
http://hopfrogswalkabout.blogspot.com/
Feel free to drop me a comment. I probably won't be able to comment here as much (going to be hard to stay as chatty typing on a cellphone in the middle of the woods), but I will certainly keep reading!
Wow - that's a pretty extreme undertaking, HF. I'm rather envious: I would be mighty tempted to attempt something similar myself - if only I could take a 6-month break from work!
Best of luck with it. I look forward to hearing some of the stories from the adventure.
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