With Bryan absent - last heard of on Boston Common, from where he draws my attention to this very fine monument - I find it impossible to wrench my attention from the unfolding farce of the Olympic torch relay. Even the French, it seems, can't handle this one. If that's the way they treat visiting heads of state - extinguishing them and putting them on a bus - the world's leaders should take note. However, I think they might have shown the way forward for the torch relay - it should ride in a heavily armoured bus, speeding along closed-down boulevards, flanked by motorcycle outriders, while Chinese heavies line the pavements, eyeing the crowds and fingering their discreetly concealed weaponry. This, I think, would perfectly express the spirit of Beijing 2008.
On the up side, there was this prediction, as startling as it is confident. Is he right? We need Captain B to rule on this, but I suspect he too is in the Land of the Free.
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
Did anyone spot the irony, as we played out our version of 55 days at Peking, Chuck finally cancelled his subscription to Guns 'n Ammo. Adios old pard, you were crap in everything you did, except El Cid, which had the Maltys in stitches for ever.
ReplyDeleteAh yes dear old Chuck - I was going to post on that, then realised I didn't have a single thing to say (and for once that actually stopped me).
ReplyDeletei liked him as the Player King in Branagh's Hamlet; and he's hilarious as John the Baptist in The Greatest Story Ever Told.
ReplyDeleteHe also appeared in a weird Jean-Claude Van Damme comedy.
That guy Mueller looks like the dad out of Soap. He's not as dumb as he looks (however, he looks pretty dumb).
ReplyDelete"...tell-tale bulges beneath their suits..." LOL.......sorry....
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