[Krad]

If PDLM was a detective, at least all the confessions would be grammatically accurate. Though I think you have to do more than just call the suspects idiots. :P

[Krad]

Why do people care who Hemlock is anyways? The man's a good writer, and has some good posts sometimes. That should suffice. I don't think it's all that important that you know who he is.

For all you know, it's going to end up being Donald Tsang. That'd really blow your minds.

[shri]

>> call the suspects idiots.

Sorry, I think the correct word is pillock.

[kombuchakid]

Well it seems that even Hemlock doesn't care who he is;or isn't privy to the Post Magazine; or he is being uber coy.
More to the point wtf is this Lou fella?
Or is he in fact Hemlock?

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The Mid-Levels Escalator suffers human gridlock as people enjoying their long weekend interrupt their trip up the hill from Central to lean over the railings and watch an altercation between a car driver and the rest of humanity on Wellington Street.

[PDLM]

Originally Posted by Krad

If PDLM was a detective, at least all the confessions would be grammatically accurate.

I believe what you meant to say was "If PDLM were a detective...". Sadly, the correct use of the subjunctive is rather rare these days.

[hk.com]

Originally Posted by PDLM

I don't think they'd have me here since I don't read or speak Chinese... but yes, I like to think I'd make a good detective.

Yes I think you would me an outstanding one.

I think Hemlock deserves his privacy and we should drop this issue and I'm not saying this because I'm a fan. He is a total bore.

[jaykay]

From Hemlock today:

Tue, 8 Apr
A newspaper cutting from the weekend brings to mind an email several weeks ago that asked me, as an alleged member of the digerati, to list my favourite gadgets for an article in the South China Morning Post Sunday magazine. The request came from David Wilson, and my initial impulse was to give him a long-overdue piece of my mind about his shameless hand-wringing and public consultation-fixing back in the late 1980s when he was Governor of Hong Kong. Then it occurred to me that if fate has reduced him to freelance writing I should go easy on him.

The problem is that the last thing I do is evangelize, connect people and adapt quickly. When I leave home I rejoice in not having a device that enables thousands of people worldwide to interrupt me with long-winded descriptions of their current activities. I also enjoy not blanking out the world around me by listening to eight gigabytes of music or immersing myself in Edison Chen’s entire photo collection. I have also noticed that what you don’t own you can’t leave in a taxi or have to worry about getting repaired. And that people who have a Star Trek-style, black plastic communications device clamped on one ear, with a light blinking, look tragically stupid. So I regaled Lord Wilson with details of my most essential kitchen artifacts, like the Bluetooth-compatible, GPS-enabled wireless olive spoon.

He wanted to know my occupation. It was a toss-up, and ‘chiropodist’ lost. Then he said wanted a large-format picture. He didn’t say of whom, and digital images of Bobby Kennedy and similarly worthy late heroes look too dated, so I emailed him the saddest, most geeky (without stretching the boundaries of credibility) looking mugshot Google Images could muster in a minute. And David wanted a name. Would he, I wondered, notice an anagram of his own? It seems not.

Actually, a fork does fine.

Quality! Nice one SCMP!

[PDLM]

Excellent stuff from Hemlock! The SCMP really is shockingly bad sometimes in the quality of its journalism and its copy editing.

[hk.com]

Even with a story like that Hemlock still manages to turn into something dull and boring. I gave up half way through, read something else, then got enough focus to go back and finished it. Yawn.

If I had to describe Hemlock was a dish/food, he would most certainly have to be congee.

[KnowItAll]

hk.com - but still, more engaging to most of us, compared to rantings about ZFS.