no more child pornography
My “child pornography” post from about a year ago has been topping the list of “most popular post” recently. I can imagine what kind of people that’s been googling for it. Yes, the post does contain a fuzzy photo of a very naked yours truly from about 45 years ago. I’m fed up being the […]
Beijing numerology
Apparently the Sichuan earthquake happened 88 days before the Olympic Games are due to start. Traditionally “88″ is considered a lucky number in China. It’s associated with prosperity and in SMS messages it’s used as a short-hand for “bye-bye” (8 is “ba” in Chinese and “baba” sounds like “bye-bye”). It is not a coincidence, after […]
A Chinese edition
It looks like my friend Tsung-Yi has helped me land a contract for a Chinese edition of my blogging book. How cool is that? No, visions of selling 1.5 billion copies in the vast Chinese market have NOT flashed before my eyes. By the look of the contract, I won’t make any money from this […]
Noisy in bed
20,000 visitors and counting
Tonghua season
Issues of authority
Ricky Ray Rector
Reading about Hilary Clinton’s attempts to play the race card, I suddenly remembered Ricky Ray Rector. Rector shot a man in a nightclub in Arkansas in 1981 and killed a policemen who came to arrest him. He then turned the gun on himself, but the bullet didn’t kill him, it left him permanently lobotomized. Rector […]