bomb, or not?
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porcine plasma?
at the risk of being distasteful, a friend forwarded me a link of “infidel’s revenge pen”. … it even has an MSDS sheet.
one night in beijing
I was reading here about a song that is apparently a hit in chinese karaoke. following a link to the song, I checked it out, and it’s… incredible. in a way that no other c-pop song could be. I mean, it’s got falsetto! (imagine a chinese version of Queen. in a bad way.)
jesus’ japanese descendant
not only does japan have the longest-running hereditary monarchy at some 2600+ years (whew! disaster averted with the birth of hisahito), but there is also a legend that jesus escaped jerusalem and made his way to aomori, where he became a rice farmer.
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wee hens
recently finished john ralston saul’s latest book: the collapse of globalism and the reinvention of the world. as the title might indicate, saul chronologically maps the rise in the idolatry of globalism (i.e., viewing the world through an economic prism) and then its miserable failure to deliver: the rising tide of globalization alone is just not enough to pull the … Read More
a story about chinese in-laws
an american writes about cultural differences when visiting another country: but when you’re older, chinese, and are his in-laws visiting the US for the first time. granted, it’s mostly just complaining about in-laws, but the best are the parts about food, particularly the Mealtime Conversation at the end (can’t…stop…laughing — but for more sobering context as to the possible origins … Read More
strippers & peelers
China cracks down on striptease funerals. [found on wanbro] at lunch today (incidentally my last day at work), a co-worker regaled me with a pretty nasty stripper story at a stag party he went to at a polish restaurant. (of course, we happened to be eating lunch in a polish restaurant.) strippers seem to fill out a more important social … Read More