Greetings
Oh Inspirational One.
My pride is shattered, which is why I'm writing to you.
I note that
J in your
Bloggers A-Z for the Rest of the World is already taken.
I do like your choice of the
J-Walk Blog, especially as courtesy of his links I can now tell Our Kid what a devious man
Charlie Bucket's Grandpa Joe was. This will be a shame as
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is the current bedtime reading ~ Our Kid's that is, not mine*.
No, what disappoints me is that here we are in
Jakarta with as many as 20 odd, unique, visits a day to our blogs,
Jakartass and
Jalan-Jalan Jakarta. (
Java Jive, is also based here, although this is essentially a photoblog.) That
Jakarta, a great metropolis has only 3 or 4 English language blogs (and
a few hundred in Indonesian which are generally focused on "
I kissed the cat and hit my boyfriend.") indicates that we need more friends. Those that we do have, generally in Asia, can be found in the links to the right in
Firefox, and floating somewhere at the bottom of this screen if you're still using I.E.
I note that you give
Inspector Sands a link. Is only one
Charlton supporter enough?
You may also like to know that my readership is refined, with wide interests. These are the stats for my last 10 referrals:
5
jakartass (Google)
1 indonesian whores (Yahoo)
1 international sperm banks
jakarta indonesia (Google)
1
jakarta girls (Yahoo)
1
jakarta massage (MSN)
1
John Peel funeral speech MP3 (Google)
Surely you ll agree that my claim to
J is valid?
Ho hum.
Jakartass
*PS. I'm actually reading
John Le Carré's
Absolute Friends. This seems somewhat appropriate as Indonesia ponders its own
classic whodunit mystery with human-rights advocates in Jakarta fearing for their lives. Like any of British mystery writer Agatha Christie's famous novels, this mystery has a body, evidence of poisoning, and motives galore. The setting, however, is hardly the English countryside.
Do read
Bill Guerin's article for the full background.
Jakartass will no doubt be returning to this theme of
old forces being unable to reconcile themselves to the new paradigm of
reformasi. There's also the story of V.P.
Josef Kalla, temporarily in charge whilst
SBY swans off to the APEC conference, recently meeting Suharto's next-to-last V.P. Sudarmomo who now runs the Suharto's
yayasans (so-called charitable foundations), which are fronts for the former despot's ill-gotten gains.
Now, why is this story not still online in the
Jakarta Post?
Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you?
Right of Reply
Dear Jackass,
I suspect our alphabet is too short. There should be 6 Ls, 9 Bs, 3 Ws and yes, a couple of
Js. No way can any alphabetical list ever be all-inclusive, and it's the lucky bastards with an X, Q or Z that sneak in.
You'd be amazed how many other blogs I wasn't able to include.
dg
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