Even though this comes from the mouth of the devil it is a very interesting story. It is almost like the Chinese want to reinforce whatever generic idea the rest of the world may already have of them. Denying all the internal cultural differences for a unified “attractive” version. Kind of sad considering China has so much real history and culture reaching so far back – yet they just want to be known now as modern, slick and “cute.”
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Friday Every time I write about us going on some trip I have to put the disclaimer about covid cautious behavior. Yes, we ate outside every time (except for planes which require a hold breath, bite/drink, exhale, remask procedure, which sounds ridiculous but it’s that or no water for 13 hours). Yes, masks everywhere. Yes, […]
A few folks have reached out wondering how we’re doing since we live in Los Angeles. Because it’s still a developing situation my update will be short: I wasn’t going to post about this, but I found myself on the blog looking up the locations of some of the places I’d taken my parents on […]
Friday morning we shut down the house and headed to LAX. Despite a disorganized boarding queueing procedure from Air Canada, the actual flight was not full and we ended up with an empty seat next to us. However, the flight was delayed for about a half hour due to a “maintenance procedure” that prolonged our […]
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-olydowney19-2008aug19,0,1944221.story
they probably don’t enjoy apple pie either.
And the hits just keep on coming…..”it’s baseball-not dodge ball”