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Those crazies in Beijing are a real inspiration to any budding Lewis Carrolls out there. I’m sure you’ve all heard the latest mad tale: There was a rat, a rabbit, and a lot of mad chaps from Beijing who may or may not have been wearing hats. And they really were mad. Not just mad as in angry, but totally bonkers. Completely off their rockers in fact, and under strict orders from HQ to stay that way. Oh yes, and there was poor Alice, representing sanity and reason,  looking reproachfully over at the mad collection for ruining everyone’s fun and breaking up the party. Jackie Chan has also declared himself mad. I couldn’t agree more.

Long may the rat and the rabbit roam the globe freely, until such time as Beijing can represent their position with, well,  less madness.

Unrelated to the fiasco surrounding the auction of YSL’s trinkets in Paris, Tibetans recently celebrated their New Year. I saw on TV that this occasion was marked in Sydney by Tibetan exiles and their supporters throwing shoes at a large cardboard effigy of Hu Jintao, prizes being awarded for one in the mouth. What a great way to strike a blow for freedom of speech. Gotta love those Aussie news channels.

Update

Here’s the youtube clip of the shoe-throwing mentioned above (actually called “shoe Jintao”). I mistakenly thought that it took place in Australia because the news report included an interview with a Tibetan now living down under. The shoe throwing took place in Dharamsala, of course.