It’s relatively safe to assume very few people in Guangdong care about the weather in Ukraine and Poland. Perhaps some soccer fans would rue a game getting postponed due to thunderstorms, but more likely, I think, they’d be relieved by the fact that they can go to sleep instead, since games are played at the... Read more »
The anonymous man who rescued a young child last week from a fourth-floor balcony has been tracked down and rewarded 50,000 yuan and a job from the Guangzhou municipality. According to China Daily, which curated content from ycwb.com (assume [sic]‘s): Zhou Chong, 23, rescued the little girl falling from the balcony on June 3, but left after she... Read more »
We know the feeling. Flights from China are always delayed, sometimes even canceled — such was the case for Katie, who, because her flight couldn’t take off yesterday (for some nebulous reason, of course), had the opportunity to walk through the arrivals door and snap a picture of the above. We don’t know who this... Read more »
Last week, we saw a dog nurse three kittens. Not to be outdone, a hero bitch in Shangdong province has taken it upon herself to nurse four of a much larger species of cat. On the same day that she gave birth to two puppies, Laifu was asked (forced?) by wildlife zoo attendants in Rongcheng to nurse four white tiger cubs whose mother, Afang, had abandoned them.
“The Great Fog of Wuhan”; smog? (image via NBD.com); blamed on straw-burning. [Xinhua] It’s been a slow Monday. We’ll pick it up for the nighttime. Here’re your Monday links.
Louis CK played a show in Beijing last night; he spoke for just over an hour. Here’s what we can’t talk about – the organizers. Even though they were in season and up on stage last night, handing out the shout-outs like skittles, after midnight, they became as shy as hedgehogs and asked us not to even mention their names.
So, thanks [redacted], [redacted] and [redacted] and special thanks to Louis’s official Chinese sponsors, a new, Beijing-based, live, streaming porno site offering all users free credits per orgasm that can then be exchanged for Jack Daniel’s, Cheerios and Ray Bans; their site is found at [redacted].
A lot of things happened this week, from the Tiananmen anniversary to the death of dissidents to Tibetans setting themselves on fire. Predictably, the Chinese papers stayed away from these subjects entirely. What did they focus on instead? The Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
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I guess Louis CK's Beijing show, which we told you about last Tuesday (and un-told you about after exorbitant ticket demand made organizers skittery), went off without a hitch. Jacob, who operates the excellent YouTube channel BeijingShenghuo, wrote in about his experience:
I was at the Louis CK show tonight, as per your blog request I'll tell you a little about it. Kro's Nest and Slow Boat where there providing pizza and beer (not for free, of course, or even discounted)
