“President Obama was offered the Nobel Peace Prize while he was waging two wars. And he accepted it. You can’t get more badass than that. Unless you give the prize money to the military.” LOFROR New Chinese immigrant to the US, Joe Wong, addresses the annual Radio & Television Correspondents’ Dinner, to an audience including […]
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A comic writes … As Britain goes the same way as the Roman Empire, things fall apart and the cultural superstructure collapses into the economic base, the Big Question is, what happened to our sense of humour? Or as Ian Burrell asks today in his insightful piece in the Independent, Q: When is a joke not
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After much joy, tears and heartache, you can now visit the Anna May Wong Must Die! website here. It has all the info about my latest one-woman show, a multimedia-illustrated journey through the life and crimes of Anna May Wong, Hollywood’s first Chinese movie star. Anna May challenged prejudice and the racism enshrined in American
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I finally got an extract of Anna May Wong Must Die! on YouTube. Recorded Tuesday 26th May 2009 at the Roxy Bar & Screen, South London. Still writing and putting the finishing touches to it. And, alas, no remote control of the Powerpoint/Keynote presentation due to my Mac iBook having no infra-red receiver, something I
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This cheery video says so much about the human condition. Police in Guangzhou spend hours trying to talk a suicidal man off a bridge before a pensioner breaks through and does what Plod fails to achieve. He even cuddles him. What happens next is a lesson to anyone dependent on the kindness of strangers. Inspired
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What happens when a white man sings the blues? Here’s the first of my videos of the St Ives Literary Festival that ends tonight (Saturday). Rod Bullimore performs How To Write A Blues Song, accompanied by Charles Shaar Murray and Buffalo Bill Smith at the St Ives Arts Club on Thursday. More about the St
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