I work at a small newspaper that employs a staff of Chinese writers and editors who write and edit in English. They’re an earnest, hard-working bunch, and I admire them immensely for consistently putting together a publication in their second language. But sometimes, mistakes happen — which is why they employ myself and D, the... Read more »
This might be funnier to our American friends — or less funny, for those who, you know, despise torture and stuff. The above is a picture for a poncho beach towel being advertised on Alibaba as “100% Cotton Kids Hooded Baby Towel.” It bears somewhat of a passing resemblance to:
Traffic Light (红绿灯) is a show on Beijing Television (BTV) that airs an ostensibly instructional segment called “Accidents That Should Never Happen.” Everything about it is ridiculous. The only way to make it more ridiculous is to watch it in slow motion, set to music.
The song in this video is Black Panther - Don't Entangle Me :: 别来纠缠我《黑豹》.
I was disgustingly smashed on a recent Tuesday when the name came up. It's all anybody's been talking about nowadays, so I shouldn’t have been surprised, even though everything being reported is the same, vague crap. No one knows what's going on, so everyone repeats everyone else, with splashy headlines. The only guy with any balls to really stir up the pot is me… plus this other asshole, RFH, who published some fantabulous junk on this very blog. [Ed’s note: Goddamnit, Drake.] Well, if it’s okay with you, I’d like to get serious for a moment. That’s right, I’d like to talk about Bo and his hot wife, who I’ll refer to by the James Bond villain-like initials G.K.K., and WLJ, otherwise known as Bo’s “right-hander” (that’s what I call him: that trusty right hand).
This is London mayor Boris Johnson’s official Sina Weibo account, which he (or, much more likely, someone on his staff) created last Friday to appeal to London-based Chinese users in the lead-up to the May 3 mayoral election. But for Sina Weibo to serve its purpose as a campaign tool, doesn’t that necessitate the Weibo... Read more »
As sometimes happens when the prigs over at the State Administration of Radio Film and Television (SARFT) get bored, they make an announcement. The recent one was a reiteration that vulgarity and scandal are not to be allowed on television, and just to prove they’re serious, they more or less singled out former AV star Sora... Read more »
Via Malcolm Moore, the Telegraph The Lament of Neil Heywood: Well, since Gu Kailai left me, I’ve found a new place to dwell. It’s down at the end of Lonely Street at Lucky Holiday Hotel. Now, links.
Via H. Lincoln, ChinaB We’re migrating all the Bo Xilai links from these last two and a half days to its own post, which will appear in 30 ninutes. For now, non-Bo links.
