Archive for 2008/06


McGuinness’ Speech

I don’t want to be threatened by fat cats worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Certainly not ones who’ve moved their assets from their homeland in order to avoid paying taxes. And I don’t want to hear about the future from any fucking asshole who has not spent more time surfing the Internet than flying […]

Kowloon

We took the Star Ferry across the bay. Upstairs in the Peninsula Hotel, there’s a series of panels delineating the history of Hong Kong. They reinforced how little I knew. There was a water shortage in the fifties and sixties? I mean I remember giving Hong Kong back to the Chinese, but I wasn’t aware […]

Hong Kong

Positively MESMERIZING! Like a living, breathing "Blade Runner". Flew upstairs on Cathay Pacific. All day in the light. They have you pull down the shades to simulate nighttime, so you think you’ve gained a day, but it’s all a scam. Freaked me out at first, we weren’t flying over any water. When snow started appearing, […]