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May 7, 2007 at 6:22 pm
Lauren
thank god you posted this. i couldn’t imagine what it sounded like.
May 26, 2007 at 11:03 pm
Marc
Yeah, but are yallz down with the true, new Sri Lankan shit?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDSnLcu2HTI
Hip hop may very well save the planet.
May 27, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Thomas
I can’t see this video, because here in the good old Land of Smiles, youtube is still being blocked…
http://w3.mict.go.th/ci/blocked.html
You’ll just have to describe it in minute detail instead.
May 29, 2007 at 11:15 pm
Lauren
It’s M.I.A.! I still think she’s hot.
May 30, 2007 at 2:01 am
Marc
I wonder if the Burmyanmar gubmint folks know that you can circumvent their silly little firewalls with proxies.
http://proxify.com/
Try that, and spread the word to the townsfolk.
May 30, 2007 at 4:13 pm
Thomas
I’m actually back in Bangkok–they’re still sore about that youtube clip that made fun of the king a few months ago. Lots of Internet places in Myanmurma do use proxies (as the gov’t blocks little sites like gmail & yahoo mail.)
I love M.I.A.! Lauren, didn’t you, Yuka, and I all have separate plans to see her in Central Park a few summers ago but then we all flaked? SO glad to hear that she’s still hot.
PS They’re reading off verdicts against ousted PM Thaksin & his political party right now on TV & I can hear people cheering in the restaurant next door. There are 10,000 extra police out on the streets in Bangkok in anticipation of riots.
May 31, 2007 at 6:13 am
Lauren
Oh, so you weren’t the person who said she wasn’t hot, and then I was like, “Um, yes she IS,” and then you were like, “NO SHE AIN’T!” Because otherwise I would not have put that “still” in, as in, “Maybe you don’t think she’s hot but I still do.”
At least Thaksin will always have Manchester football. Or not. I don’t know if he bought that shit. What’s football, anyway.
May 31, 2007 at 7:53 am
Thomas
I don’t remember that exchange at all. Plus, I believe I have never used the word “ain’t.” However, I have also learned to trust your memory more than my own, so now I am wracked with internal conflict. This is how schizophrenic personality disorders get started. Thanks a lot.
May 31, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Lauren
Well, it probably wasn’t you because the person in question didn’t like her. And now I remember that we totally did plan to see her at Central Park, and why would you do that if you didn’t like her? So a point goes to your memory over mine.