Long Hair

I really wished that I spoke Cantonese at this moment. Walking out of the Tiananmen vigil tonite I noticed a man with a microphone standing on a ladder, someone I'd recognized from the newspaper. It was Leung Kwok-hung, a member of Hong Kong's Legislative Council, who is otherwise known as 'Long Hair' because of the ponytail that goes down below his beltline. He has always said he won't cut his hair until China's central gov't apologizes for Tiananmen, so it grows and grows.....LegCo is a bit like SF's Board of Supes, and Long Hair is its Chris Daly in his capacity for sh$# disturbing. And on that ladder tonight he was like a carnival barker, bantering back and forth with the assembled crowd, at times with jovial humor and at times with a really sharp tongue. I didn't understand a word but it was still a good show.