YOU DREAM OF JEANNIE

Good morning, Internet.

It’s Monday. Make a wish. Barbara Eden will make it happen.



What have you got to lose?

Yes master,

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THE IDES OF MARCH (2010 EDITION)

It was five years ago to this very day that Team Frog opened for business on the LiveJournals. Granted, this is our second blog in that time (the sordid details are here if you haven’t heard that yarn before), but a number of you have been around for both, so close enough.

So I just had to post these, didn’t I?

"Rudy Giuliani in Drag Smooching Donald Trump" (Watch on YouTube)

"許冠傑 Sam Hui - 学生哥" (Watch on YouTube)

[The second one is "Five Years Time" by Noah and The Whale, in case the link isn't showing up in yr browser.]

That’s all I have, really. I don’t have a lot of wisdom or pithy observations on the evolution of blogging. I can safely say that it’s still my preferred form of Internet communication, with Facebook serving as a supplemental link-dump (and replacing Twitter in the process).

Anyway, thanks for tuning in and putting up with my crap this far. I’ll try to make 2010 as entertaining as possible. And I’ve got four days in Seoul coming up next week, so that should give me some fresh material.

Meanwhile, at the risk of deafening silence, I’d like to open up the request line and kick off what we call the audience participation. I’d like to know which parts of this blog are working or not working for you – what you’d like to see more of, or less of, or whatever.

Not that I’m likely to drop the less popular stuff. But, you know, I live to entertain you people.

Keep on blogging,

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WAL-MART IS LAW, YOU ARE CRIME

ITEM: Wal-mart employee Joseph Casias is fired after testing positive for marijuana – even though he smokes it for medicinal use, and even though medicinal marijuana is legal in the state of Michigan.

In an e-mail from headquarters, WalMart spokesman Greg Rossiter explained the company policy.  It states: "In states, such as Michigan, where prescriptions for marijuana can be obtained, an employer can still enforce a policy that requires termination of employment following a positive drug screen. We believe our policy complies with the law and we support decisions based on the policy."

In other words, medical marijuana is legal only if Wal-mart says it is.

Yes, I know, the half-assed logic here is probably along the lines of “If we make an exception for people with prescriptions, we’ll have to make exceptions for everyone and then all our staff will be dope fiends.”

Or – just as likely – Wal-mart is a national business that operates in states where medical marijuana is still illegal, and – by no coincidence – many of the same states are populated with people who still think that sparking a spliff is morally no different from injecting children with heroin. And Wal-mart is not about to adopt any policy that gets it in Dutch with the Bible Belt territories.

Also, it’s not as though Wal-mart is known for its fair employment practices anyway.

I’m just saying.

Reefer madness,

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THIS IS dE FOG

It’s been pretty foggy in Hong Kong the last few days.

Here’s what it looked like yesterday.





That’s the new International Commerce Centre in West Kowloon, as seen through the fog across Victoria Harbour, catching a bit of sun. The photos don’t do it justice, but they came out better than I thought, considering I used a Nokia E52 phone.

Watch out for pirates,

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