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Robert Brault
Monday, June 28, 2010
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The Centre of the Universe
Carve it on the mountain
Who would be on your "Mt Rushmore of Rock"?
PICK OF THE MONTH - A random recommendation from the Archive
Froogville
Beating Internet Censorship...
Dating in Beijing
Where to dine out in Beijing
The Froog Bar Awards - the best and worst Beijing has to offer
Dead Pool
What makes a great bar?
Possible Band Names
Possible Bar Names
What is your unusual super-power?
The search for a new Drinking Companion
Leave your 'Bar Jokes' here
Leave your 'bad' jokes here
About The Blog
About Me
- Froog
- Froog is an escaped lawyer - but there is no need for alarm; he is only a danger to himself, not to the general public. An eternal wanderer, he now lives in an exotic city somewhere in the 'Third World' *, where he is held prisoner by an unfinished novel (or, more precisely, an unstarted novel). He spends a lot of time running, writing, taking photographs, and falling in love with women who fail to appreciate him. He also spends a lot of time in bars. [* OK, I'll come clean: I've been living in Beijing since summer '02.]
Why Froog?
The 'Idea' Behind The Blog
Jeffrey Dahmer Time
Froog on Drinking
Froog on Hangovers
Resolutions
A Tour Of The Archives
- Favourite Posts, Oct.-Dec. '10
- Favourite Posts, July-Sept. '10
- Favourite Posts, April-June '10
- Favourite Posts, Jan.-March '10
- Favourite Posts, Oct.-Dec. '09
- Favourite Posts, July-Sept, '09
- Favourite Posts, April-June '09
- Favourite Posts, Jan.-March '09
- Favourite Posts, Oct.-Dec. '08
- Favourite Posts, July-Sept. '08
- Favourite Posts, April-June '08
- Favourite Posts, Jan.-March '08
- Favourite Posts, Oct.-Dec. '07
- Favourite Posts, July-Sept. '07
- Favourite Posts, April-June '07
- Favourite Posts, Jan.-March '07
- Favourite Posts, Sept.-Dec. '06
Labels
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The Unsuitable Role Models
- Dave Allen - legendary Irish comedian
- Chet Baker - sublime jazz singer/trumpeter
- Jeffrey Bernard - professional alcoholic, wonderful wit
- Rowley Birkin, QC - drunk raconteur (as played by Paul Whitehouse)
- John 'Bluto' Blutarsky - John Belushi's iconic role in Animal House
- Jimmy Buffett - singer/songwriter, affectionate chronicler of the alcohol-assisted 'good life'
- Charles Bukowski - writer, poet, drinker
- Johnny Cash - 'The Man In Black', legendary music star
- Terry Collier - 'bad influence' best friend
- Peter Cook - comedy genius
- Tommy Cooper - master of deadpan comedy and artfully 'inept' conjuror
- Ivor Cutler - charmingly eccentric performance poet, singer, and wit
- Ernest Dowson - romantic poet, died young from wine and laudanum
- "Fast Eddie" Felson - pool shark supreme
- Jem Finer - banjo player with The Pogues and all-around top man
- Errol Flynn - matinée idol and rake
- Father Jack Hackett - a man with only one thing on his mind!
- Hagar the Horrible - Viking marauder (cartoon character created by Dik Browne)
- John Hyman - a real-life friend: bon viveur and aficionado of the N'Awlins music scene
- Lucas Jackson, "Cool Hand" Luke - self-destructive rebel (as played by Paul Newman)
- The Jester, from 'The Wizard of Id' (cartoon character created by Parker & Hart)
- Philip Larkin - great, gloomy poet
- Tom Lehrer - master of the satirical or blackly comic cabaret song
- Li Bai - celebrated drunken poet of the Tang Dynasty
- Shane MacGowan - bonkers singer/songwriter, of Pogues notoriety
- Dean Martin - ultra-cool lounge singer & masterful stage drunk
- Mithridates VI, iron-livered King of Pontus
- Brian O'Nolan (aka Flann O'Brien, aka Myles na Gopaleen) - Ireland's funniest writer
- John Otway - possibly The Greatest Living Englishman, certainly the best pub entertainer
- Ptilocercus Iowii - the hard-drinking Malaysian tree shrew
- Keith Richards - incomparably ravaged troubadour
- Tom Waits - the greatest singer/songwriter in history
- Auberon Waugh - famously acerbic and witty critic/satirist
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