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Ugly chess
Wandering through San Francisco’s Chinatown I took dozens of pics of really, really ugly gimcrack things. Masters of tat, the Chinese of San...
POSTED BY IN Main, Photographs ON Mar 12, 2010 | 2 comments
Newseum
As part of the US State Dept Foreign Press tour I’ve just been on – one focussed on social media – we visited the News Museum in...
POSTED BY IN Dailies, Main ON Feb 23, 2010 | 5 comments
Foreign Press
So I’m with a bunch of journalists, editors, bloggers and general press people on a tour that encompasses social media, government and...
POSTED BY IN Art, Main ON Feb 19, 2010 | 9 comments
Hotel Yeoville
Went to Yeoville to take a look at a great public art/public service project that artist Terry Kurgan has put together over last two years....
POSTED BY IN FriendBlogs, Main ON Feb 18, 2010 | 10 comments
Zuma Soapie
The inside track on how Zuma’s wives took to the new addition to the family, by Karabo Keepile. Short answer – not well. I’m...
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NIgerians, so forth!
Ha ha! Ha ha ha! My people, my people. You are sick. But damn funny. —– Forwarded Message From: louise...
Hotel Yeoville
posted on: Feb 19, 2010 | author: Chris
Went to Yeoville to take a look at a great public art/public service project that artist Terry Kurgan has put together over last two years....
Croc-ugly.
posted on: Feb 17, 2010 | author: Chris
Thanks to @Nafisa of www.nafisa.co.za for this pic – yep, they’re giant Crocs. Just when you thought it wasn’t possible to get any...
SABC genius
posted on: Feb 4, 2010 | author: Chris
A guest blog entry from @mrtuckbox, who is justifiably enraged at how crap SABC fact checking is. If it even exists. Thanks for the contribution,...
M&G kills kid!
posted on: Feb 4, 2010 | author: Chris
Making fun of Jacob Zuma has become as unsatisfying as picking on his mini-me, Juju Malema. Can it be true that the Prez is accusing the media of...
MTN of Truth
posted on: Feb 2, 2010 | author: Chris
This is damnably funny, in a Kafka meets Mel Miller kind of way. Someone sent this copy of an MTN email, which reads like a parody of client service....
Spam love
posted on: Feb 2, 2010 | author: Chris
Has anyone ever written a scifi story about falling in love with a spambot? Someone should. This cheerful little feller, for example, has quite...
The Tweeting Chris
- and she claims she's not clever. Sigh. RT @CathrynR: Break it like Beckham
- @CathrynR don't say that, sheesh. You know it's not true.
- Skype conference for him. @CathrynR @gussilber @muzhunter
- @muzhunter @CathrynR @gussilber let's do it. Cath, we'll fly you up to JHB, use my table.
- @LiamLynchPhoto i go where the eMoneyshot is, it's the interweb way.
- Only time I ever see stories I've done for mags is in doc waiting rooms. So not online - months later.