Archive for December, 2011
…The new ruler looks like a young but plumper Mao about to begin a long lunch not a long march.His eldest brother lost brownie points after a visit to Disneyland in Japan, rather a sane land in comparison to his homeland, but Kim Jong-un has the hereditary haircut required in the bouffant buffer state… Despite his Swiss education the “pudgy princeling”is not likely to do a Snow White and awaken the population in the hermetically sealed hermit state to the new world which surrounds them…
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Tags: Kim Jong-un, North Korea
The broken Christ Church Cathedral is not so High Church after its spire toppled in February 22 quake. At least the proposed temporary substitute won’t be in a brown paper bag. It will be the full Monty Python if proponents have their way. The proposal for a temporary 10 year-“cardboard cathedral”, designed by world-renowned Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, was unveiled in August…
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Tags: Christ Church Cathedral, Christchurch earthquakes, Katie Pickles