Video after the jump. Remember the cannibal/zombie craze that swept across the world over the summer, starting with Rudy Eugene chewing a homeless man’s face on a Miami highway on May 26, followed by Alexander Kinyua eating a murder victim’s heart and portions of his brain, followed by Luka Magnotta (the less said about this one the... Read more »
The Guangzhou Sex Culture Festival is always a big deal because, you know, sex. Created in 2003 by Zhang Feng, a soldier-turned government official who goes by “Brother Feng” in his books, Guangzhou’s annual sex lollapalooza draws hundreds of thousands of visitors every year. “Sex is like food,” Zhang said in a 2010 interview. “It functions at the very... Read more »
Sibling rivalries can get intense, as history’s Li Shimin, the Prince of Qin, and his brother Li Jiancheng, the Crown Prince, has shown. But one little emperor in Kaili, Guizhou province took rather drastic measures against his sister not for power or wealth or dominion over a princedom or country, but a remote control. Guiyang Evening Paper has this... Read more »
The thing about explosions on TV and movie sets is they have to be manageable. As a result, you’ll get a big bang and some fireworks, but rarely a sense of danger for the characters in the explosions. In real life, things are liable to get more hairy. Take a look at the streaks of... Read more »
Has unrest again hit Foxconn? New York-based advocacy group China Labor Watch reports that yesterday at about 1 pm in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province, “three to four thousand production workers” went on strike after Foxconn demanded they work holidays and “raised overly strict demands on product quality without providing worker training for the corresponding... Read more »
What's wrong with this scene? Let's count the ways. You have the old man either trying to prevent a fight or instigating one, or doing both. There's the child, tortured by the adults' incompetence, who plugs his ears and wishes he were never born. (Don't fret, kid, life gets better.) There's the young man in what looks like brown leather loafers and hipster-black jeans, the one identified in this video title as a "sissy." (Full title: "Beijing [Railway] Station KFC sissy man fighting over seat strikes woman.") And then you have the fact these folks are at the Kentucky Fried Chicken inside Beijing Railway Station, which has to be one of the saddest places in the world. In fact, this whole episode occupies the lowest pit of sad. I'm depressed now.
Wired brings us this story of artist Chris Eckert’s “Party Gift,” a sculpture featuring a creepy, lifelike eyeball in a red box adorned with Chinese Communist Party insignia and a wooden block print of Mao Zedong. Let’s linger a bit on that eyeball, shall we? Eckert explains: “For me, the relationship between the eye, the... Read more »
As any healthy male knows, the desire to masturbate on an airplane can be OVERWHELMING. Yet who among us is willing to take matters into his own hands? I'll tell you: Cathay Pacific business travelers, that's who.
On September 17, Next Media Animation in Taiwan got a tip that passengers on Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific flights were, if not exactly encouraged to, allowed to join their own one-man Mile High clubs.
The 18 students from Tiantou Primary School buried under landslides yesterday in Yiliang, Yunnan province have all died. Via AP: Any last hope for survivors evaporated early Friday when rescuers pulled the body of the last missing child from the landslide debris, China National Radio said in a report on its website. What’s even more tragic about... Read more »
