Here’s an interesting poem sent to me from Australia. It reflects how Chinese are feeling about the current climate of anti-Chinese sentiment being expressed in some quarters which is sometimes like something out of the 19th Century. AN AWAKENING MESSAGE A Poem by D L LinPublished by the Washington Post April 2008 When we were […]
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A couple of quickie videos from this week’s St Ives Lit Fest. A review of the awesomely funny Murray Lachlan Young to come. Bob Deveraux performs “Consider A Wave”, accompanied by Paul Healy on flute, and Martyn Barker on guitar.
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I don’t know which induces nausea in me the most: whether it’s Tony Blair’s Joker Jack grin as he trousers £20 million thus far for services rendered, or Stephen Byers’ ‘gorblimey, I’m only a cabbie, mate, at five grand a shot’ routine. Who makes me reach fastest for the sick bag? Could it be Geoff
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Has anyone else stumbled across the Bravo cable TV show, 1,000 Ways To Die? It’s a sweet little offering from the US, re-enacting the weirdest ways people have met their end — usually prime contenders for the Darwin Awards. I’m sitting here squirming having just watched the fate of the scumbag robber who stole groceries
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Rather belatedly, I’m posting a review of Tim Burton’s 3D movie adaptation of Alice In Wonderland. Being a sucker for the technology (especially now that you get proper stylish Rayban-style spectacles and not the horrid — if nostalgic — cardboard face-wear of old), I had gone to see Alice the first week it opened at
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Went to Farrago’s excellent Poetry Slam last night and busted my competition cherry with Daddy Freud and Anna May Wong Must Die! I was a bit nervous with Daddy Freud but AMWMD was going great guns and I was well into my stride when disaster struck and I forgot the last verse. But, here for
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