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HIGH VOLTAGE!
Mar. 16th, 2005 03:17 am
Mar. 16th, 2005
Shanghai Surprise
Mar. 16th, 2005 01:56 pmTalking to Jack about his time in China is interesting. The industrial boom towns have huge shiny hotels with no potable running water. Everything, absolutely everything is available if you have money. If you come into a hotel and they claim to be booked up, your best bet is to find a prostitute in the jazz bar and pay for her services; a room will then appear. The infrastructure is complete crap and the pollution is out of control, but there's a Ferrari dealership.
Wealthy foreigners managing their local businesses should stay in their outsiders' enclaves and not fraternize with the locals; they're likely to end up beaten to a pulp or worse.
There's a whole subclass of foreign bums; people who somehow got to Shanghai but ran out of money. They have enough to get by for a while, but not enough to leave. They hang around tea houses looking disheveled. Their eventual fate is not good.
A consultant can fly in, install a computer network, make $50K in a week, and fly out. The medical system is completely broken; there aren't enough ambulances or hospitals. Don't get sick there.
Welcome to the gold rush!
Wealthy foreigners managing their local businesses should stay in their outsiders' enclaves and not fraternize with the locals; they're likely to end up beaten to a pulp or worse.
There's a whole subclass of foreign bums; people who somehow got to Shanghai but ran out of money. They have enough to get by for a while, but not enough to leave. They hang around tea houses looking disheveled. Their eventual fate is not good.
A consultant can fly in, install a computer network, make $50K in a week, and fly out. The medical system is completely broken; there aren't enough ambulances or hospitals. Don't get sick there.
Welcome to the gold rush!
Ist a tøtal eklips oofda håårt
Mar. 16th, 2005 05:21 pmOld meme apparently, but completely broke me:
Norwegians Do Bonnie Tyler with Appliances (Windows Media Video)
I liked it so much I extracted the audio, so you can carry the Scandihoovian Excitement with you everywhere:
Madness from the Far North! 4.2 MB mp3.
Norwegians Do Bonnie Tyler with Appliances (Windows Media Video)
I liked it so much I extracted the audio, so you can carry the Scandihoovian Excitement with you everywhere:
Madness from the Far North! 4.2 MB mp3.
It's made from Grade D Heffalump Meat
Mar. 16th, 2005 11:15 pmChicken dicks are expensive! You can only get them from half the chickens. I have an important question for you: what's "embezzling"? Sure, you know, that's what Goths are good for! I'm not sure who the hell asked for a new Liberace. We were filling up our flasks before the ceremony, all in tuxes, and the sheriffs deputy shows up and says "Gentlemen!"
This is the absolute worst of the Denim Troubadour music. Let me explain to you how this guy got into the Pile High Club. She's this sedate little Japanese girl until you get her near a seafood buffet and then she goes fucking feral. If you need help with that I'm moving out of state in a week, I'm jobless, and I have a really big metal flashlight. Sure she wants to be looked at; she just doesn't want YOU looking at her.
After Twin Peaks some chords just belong to Badalamenti.
No fucking way was it a job interview. I walked in and there were ten chairs and a whiteboard, I just spun around and walked out. We play a game we like to call "cellphone or street lunatic?".
I said you know, she will do anything for her friends and doesn't give a shit about anyone who isn't, and the people she dates aren't necessarily her friends.
Oh he's getting the asshole tax for sure.
This is the absolute worst of the Denim Troubadour music. Let me explain to you how this guy got into the Pile High Club. She's this sedate little Japanese girl until you get her near a seafood buffet and then she goes fucking feral. If you need help with that I'm moving out of state in a week, I'm jobless, and I have a really big metal flashlight. Sure she wants to be looked at; she just doesn't want YOU looking at her.
After Twin Peaks some chords just belong to Badalamenti.
No fucking way was it a job interview. I walked in and there were ten chairs and a whiteboard, I just spun around and walked out. We play a game we like to call "cellphone or street lunatic?".
I said you know, she will do anything for her friends and doesn't give a shit about anyone who isn't, and the people she dates aren't necessarily her friends.
Oh he's getting the asshole tax for sure.