Setting mom on fire is fun!

I’ve complained a lot about how Japan has done a much better job of exporting their popular culture than China has, and I’m not alone in realizing that. I think a lot of the advantage Japan has is that their sense of humor as a nation is [...]

Tasty and good for you

Westerners may laugh at the thought of sticking needles in somebody to help treat illness; they may scoff at the idea of natural herbal treatments for diseases; they may even use a toilet that you sit on rather than squatting over (admittedly, I hate the squat type toilets…it’s too much like [...]

I don’t know how trustworthy this site is, but it’s weird, and it’s Asian, so I thought I’d post about it. A 95-year-old grandmother in China’s Guangdong province has a 5-inch horn growing out of her head. She says, “At first, it was only a mole, but it gradually grew and became like a [...]

This is pretty cool. Back in January, I wrote a post about an extremely talented Chinese band called inLove. I just found a comment today on my post about the Miss Universe pageant from someone purporting to be the singer of the band, Lu. I’m not sure if I believe [...]

If you’ve ever been told by anybody that something will only happen “when pigs fly”…by your boss when you asked for a raise, by the cutie in accounting when you asked her out…you may wanna start looking again at that new sportscar you’ve always wanted or buy some cologne in preparation for your big date. [...]