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 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 […]
I posted a bit ago about how we’d gone back to Shaw’s Cove for the first time in five years. Part of that was because we’d visited La Jolla Shores on one day down and back trips in 2020 and 2021. Then no swimming at all anywhere in 2022 or 2023. So while it had […]
A month ago we returned to Shaw’s Cove after a 5 year drought to find out that we’d been snorkeling to the wrong side all along. A few coves south lay the Laguna Beach Marine Life Refuge, where most of the juvenile leopard sharks learn to drive. Last time all our friends cancelled on us, […]
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”