Here's a laowai who loves his hometown of Cleveland so much that he raps about its charms to a Chinese audience. Cleveland, the city whose football team has had more staph infection lawsuits than playoff appearances since 1999, the city with a sulphuric I-71 cutting through it, the city consistently ranked one of the worst in the US, the city...
Greetings, folks. Des Bishop's monthly Humor Section -- a night of stand-up comedy at the Bookworm -- is tonight, featuring Tom Rhodes. "Tom is by far the most accomplished act we will have had at the Humor Section to date," Bishop says. 8 pm tonght at the Bookworm. Encore performance tomorrow night. And now for links.
We're going to assume this was an accident, because in which universe would a fan-made poster depicting hunky Thor with his arms wrapped around an aroused Loki find itself front and center at a mainstream theater? (If you answered "Asgard" in your head... congratulations!) Atlantic Wire has this wonderful tale:
Proving that some good things really can exist on the Internet for months without being discovered, here's a Tumblr called How High are Xi Jinping's Pants Today?
We'd like to thank William Kirby and Peter Bol, the Harvard professors in the above video (part of a series called China X), for being their delightful selves as they sing the "Chinese dynasty song."
China wants the Olympics again. Beijing and Zhangjiakou submitted a formal nomination letter to the IOC on Sunday to joint host the 2022 Winter Olympics, according to Xinhua. If chosen -- a decision should come in 2015 -- Beijing would be the first city to have hosted a Summer and Winter Games.
