I thought in case the Chinese do not have many proverbs I would try to invent one for them…
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Chinese Proverb
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Just a few sketches of things that float into the brain…
Alfonso has a bit of the Jedi about him…
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Through The Spooky Space Door
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FA Cup Doodles
The FA Cup final kick off was even more annoying for those of us watching from Shanghai, especially as beer drinking started at 3pm Local time (over 9 hours till kick off). I have often thought that ideas I come up with while having beers are among my best but I keep forgetting them before the morning after hangover. On FA Cup Saturday I decided to record ideas I had (each one represents an extra one or two beers)…
Idea 1 : What does a Foxy Lady really look like?
2. Are birds as good at dancing as they claim to be?
3. How can you tell the sex of a fish?
4. As pleasant as the sight of a full beer glass is it is all about context, and somewhere else it may not be as attractive
5. Shanghai would have made a great setting for King Kong
6. Are there such things as squirrel vampires?
So obviously I do not have good world changing ideas whilst drinking…
Its that most wonderful time of year again, maybe this year I will have some with Duck…
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Sean Pen and Argentina
To be fair it is easy to criticise and make fun of all the rubbish that Sean Pen has written but he did write a very good article about milk and one about a mystic river. So of course who better to write good sense about things he probably knows nothing about…
Anyway Sean is against anything that could be an “archaic commitment to colonialist ideology” and so urges Argentina to leave the land they colonised in the 16th century.
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Anon the Bear
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The Grauniad
There are so many sordid parts of the UK media. In my opinion that would be the Murdoch press, obviously the Daily Mail. Easy targets but one I particularly hate is the Grauniad. (http://www.guardian.co.uk I have given the link as everyone is free to make up their own mind, I know some of the opinions in it drive people almost orgasmic with joy and agreement).
It is not because generally the sordid rag has a different political view to me (although I notice those with alternative political views hate other papers solely for this reason). In fact I prefer The Independant despite the time it takes to download any article on a slow connection speed.
Anyway amongst my many things I have against it are…
1) The exceedingly poor taste 9/11 coverage that friends of mine at the time found truly offensive
2) Hypocrisy, I (in common with the Guardian opinion writers) could not see how banks could pay bonuses to their CEOs while making a loss. Likewise I cannot see how when the Guardian Media Group made a £171,000,000 loss they paid thier CEO a £143,000 bonus.
3) As if Wastebook isnt evil enough I now accidently click on links to Guardian articles then on my wall everyone in the world can see I am reading the Guardian. I then have to disinfect myself.
“You’d be a worth advesary,” said Keyser once to Jim “But your chance of winning now seem rather slim
You worked in the underworld in a manner quite aloof But alas your brains appear to be scattered on a roof.”
The result : Keyser Söze is the winner unless somehow Jim Moriarty has somehow miraculousy escaped death in “The Reichenbach Fall”.
Chinese New Year is fast approaching. I did wonder what year of the dragon was all about, I wondered if every 12 years China is visited by a plague of fire breathing lizards. This morning I think my suspicions were proved to be true when I woke up to find this at the end of my bed…
