Northern Command notes last night -

John is eschewing tomorrow's chili cook-off on Soho St in favor of seeing blind tenor Andrea Bocelli in concert at 6 pm. This will be his 3rd tenor concert in Taichung, the first two being Carreras and Pavarotti. Rock on Opera John! Make sure you request Con Te Partiro. It's one of his best. Listen to how the crowd goes nuts for this tune!



If that doesn't get you going, here's a link to the techno version

I saw D-Wayne earlier in the week and he's going to be at the chili cook-off for sure. And just so everyone knows he's gonna get "...fucking hammered!"
Anyone for an over/under on how many of the 9 bands he moons?
Let's set it at 3...

Finally, we voted against any more pics of two faced babies on the blog...

Poor John's been afraid to come here all week.

Oh, and Aaron, can you lend John Civ III? Poor bastard tried to load Civ II the other night but couldn't play because it had no sound....

In search of a new drug

If you haven't heard, Kevlar gave up smoking.

If you ask him about it, all he'll say is that it seemed like a good idea at the time and that now he needs a new drug.

Help Kevlar choose a new drug.

Tasteless Post

Following a Fark link to a story about a female teacher who has been caught having sex with a student for the second time (different kid, too) I see this pretty amazing link within the story.

PHOTO GALLERY:
Click here for the photos of female teachers around the country who have been accused of having sex with students!

Yeah, it does need that exclamation point. 65 photos in the gallery!

Gobblers

Got home tonight around 7pm. Stopped to watch the aforementioned/photo'd turkey do an elaborate dance only to be shunned by the five females hanging in the yard. After thirty minutes, he gave up. Doesn't he know persistence pays off (occasionally)?

The coolest part was watching his face turn from red to a cool white and back again. He also kept his feathers up the whole time (no comment necessary) thereby giving me multiple opportunities to film some unsuccessful turkey foreplay. Unfortunately, I still don't own a camera.

One Dollar Koi

Cool Origami
At this web site can be found
in dollars not yen

Olympic protest news you probably already knew

From the Big Lizards blog, a post of a possible Chinese agent provocateur in the Paris incident in which a wheelchair-bound woman, who was carrying the Olympic torch, was pulled from her wheelchair by a Tibetan protester. Japan-based bloggers found a very different, interesting picture of the man who committed the act. Read all to see the Chinese bloggers' reactions.

Note: Link from Big Lizards to Japanese blogs offers one or two extra pictures, but the language is all Japanese.

North Korea Videos

There are about 14 in all. I haven't had a chance to watch them since I am at "work" but I suspect I will enjoy them.

Some people want to climb Everest before they die. I want to visit the last totalitarian communist regime with the added bonus of being Korean - a country that knows how to do chauvinism and xenophobia the right way!

Medical Marvels

I thought the story of the two- faced baby was so interesting I had to post after Red A's report on the lady and the lizard (good name for a short story). While searching for a good photo I came across several other wonderful stories.




Click here if you'd like to learn more about the world's smallest girl. Scroll thru some of the other interesting photos on this link.















Honestly, what about this story? A woman takes hormones to become a man, then gets pregnant?
This is not a hoax, but maybe old news. I just heard it a few weeks ago and you can check out the story here.
More on story here.




Who could resist mini muscleman Romeo Dev?









Finally, check out this couple . In love with strange tastes to say the least.

15 Years in Taiwan

and I still see things that are completely surreal.

Today I was driving to work and I saw a woman walking down the street wearing one of those flower-print face and head coverings that female construction workers sometimes wear here.

So far, so normal.

Then I noticed she had a large lizard perched on the back of her head. The lizard was about the size of an iguana but thinner and its head and body was about 10 cm into the air.

Both parties seemed pretty happy with the arrangement, so it must be a pet lizard, but it still made me do a double take.

I wonder if its some new fad that's just come over from Japan.

Wish I had a photo, but I was driving.

Must Be Nice

Check this out. Two hours for a passport.



HOWIGATI


Ponce drinking mescal again

Topless in TO

The Blue Jays wore their old powder blue road uniforms for the home opener against the Bosox last Friday night.

In the 9th some topless chick jumped onto the field with a guy and sprinted into the outfield. He was also topless.

Video here from the 1st base side and here from what looks like the upper deck in right but is the best shot of security tackling the male "streaker".

Olympic Protests

Here you can see the phalanx of Chinese security guarding the Olympic flame.

Miss Huq, one of 80 torchbearers said: "The men in blue perplexed everyone. Nobody seemed to know who they were officially or what their title was. They were very robotic, very full on, and I noticed them having skirmishes with our own police and the Olympic authorities before our leg of the relay, which was confusing.

"They were barking orders at me, like 'Run! Stop!' and I was like, 'Oh my gosh, who are these people?'

"They kept pushing my hand up higher when I was holding the torch, so they were...interesting."

Some guy named Lord Coe called them "thugs" in the article.

Might I suggest if the Chinese must have blue-suited paramilitary guards escorting the Olympic flame, they should have used female air force officers instead of males as the security team. No one minds getting pushed around by a hottie.

Yes, Ma'am, I have been a bad boy and welcome your punishment.

p.s. I can't decide if I support some kind of boycott or just don't care. Any opinions?

This photo finds me and some friends hanging out on my porch drinking martinis. Harry Fritz is a professor emeritus at the U (History) and has written several books on Montana history. Helia is an immigrant, US citizen, and only Persian chick in Missoula.

Harry knew how to call turkeys, and thus the male gobbler in the center of the photo is fanning (for Harry, not the hen). Click on the photo and you'll notice the turkey's head has changed to red, indicating the beginning of the mating season (normally their heads are blue).

Senator, Congressmen Please Heed the Call

Obama was in Missoula on Saturday. We were about 15 ft. away and were able to shake hands following the speech (notice how I framed him and the Montana flag together with my great photography skills). Love him or hate him, the man can speak. He had 8,000 of us eating out of the palm of his hand for the better part of an hour. Almost makes you believe in America again, especially when he discusses the chances of a black man with big ears running for president in Montana being not so high. Sadly, his race was noted at various events, as our resident White Supremists picketed the event in Butte and wrote graffiti on the local law offices of the Obama campaign.

Montana holds its Democratic primary on the June 3rd, the last in the nation along with South Dakota, meaning candidates (and spouses) are actually campaigning here. This week we saw Hillary, Bill, and Barack visit our fair state. No word on when Gravel is coming.

The Tonka IX issue, vol 8

Thai Tonka , building a better lady boyhood:)

Would u believe?

W U X W u x i

Did You Know?

• Over 19,454 passengers can travel out of WUX every week.
• The longest flight from WUX is 1,160 miles.
• There are 15 nonstop flights per week departing from WUX.
• There are over 14 international flights per week from WUX.

6 carriers servin this location each week.
1 of them is CUA (China United Airlines).
I wounder if they r a member of Star Alliance?


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W u x i

Next stop..... W U X A P




forty four

WEL COME COMING

45 minutes outside Shanghai


eighty6

Let's take a little walk...

I know Bread's been to Spain....did you walk this path?

Update:
The wikipedia entry for this walkway is interesting as well.

Tibet WAS,IS,and ALWAYS WILL BE a part of China

Supposedly, it was this video that lead to the establishing of the anti-cnn web site by Chinese dissatisfied with CNN's and other western media outlets' coverage of the current events in Tibet. The web site sucks. Not because of the content, but because of the quality - and the use of simplified characters. Especially that. The use of simplified characters is right there with A-1 on you steak in terms of dumbness.

I only watched the first video which purported to show the anti-Chinese slant used by the media when editing. The last part of the video features an Indian TV interview with a Tibetan(?) woman. The English and Chinese subtitles match. However the women's spoken words do not match the Chinese subtitles. My problem is that her mouth doesn't seem to match the words she is supposed to be saying. It very possibly could be the video quality. She, whoever she is, also seems to have a stronger northern retroflex than what I remember hearing from those speaking Mandarin in Guangdong. Yes, I know the two are distant. Maybe others could help out in pinning her accent down, again, if that is her actually speaking in the first place.

But now on to the video. I watched and learned several important things. First, they use they same National Geographic map of the peoples of China that I had in high school. Can they tell me where I can get another? Secondly, whenever they get around to updating this video's title to include Taiwan, they need to change their maps. Not one of the three (well, the first two are a little difficult to make out, but the Ching Dynasty map is very clear) show Taiwan as being part of China. Thirdly, Europe is going to be very crowded. Fourthly, we must deal with a lot of things. One of them being (Fact 1 ), Tibet was,is and always be part of China because there are 56 ethnic groups in China.


Next is , well I sorta got lost thinking about my map. Watch it all. Lots of pretty pictures, except when talking about the Dalai Lama's Tibet.