As Ben and Gordo's party last night was titled.
Thanks, guys.
It had all the ingredients - beer, chicks, pizza, Tennessee Tom whipping up cocktails in the kitchen, a local documentary-maker conducting interviews about pornography in the back bedroom, visitations by the police. A good night.
As I explained yesterday on the Barstool, I don't get hangovers. Luckily.
I do get extreme torpidity and disinclination to get out of bed.
It's unfortunate that I have 10 or 12 hours of editing to try to do today.
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I disagree. It's not at all unfortunate. Nothing like bizarre scientific minutae to snap you out of torpidity and disinclination.
or wait, maybe it's the other way around - it's bizzarre scientific minutae that puts you into a state of torpidity and disinclination...
????
Where were the bizarre scientific minutiae in this post? Or any post? I think you're confusing me with another blogger!
the editing
Ah, it wasn't THAT editing job.
Market reports on the motor industry here, rather than Japanese scientific papers. Variety is the spice of life.
motor industry, huh? that sounds worth a read. any tidbits worth sharing? Has the market trend moved towards more cars that fit on sidewalks?
I nearly got run over today - okay, so that happens every day -- but the lady driving the car was so oblivious -- okay, they are all oblivious --- but really, today's was different.
For the record, I was in the bike lane and the bike lane was divided from the main road with a physical divider. don't ask why she was driving her car in the bike lane or why I was walking in it. And I don't recall where the bicyclists were driving.
The reports this weekend were on the bus and truck sectors; but I believe there is some picking up in demand at the lower end of the market, perhaps partly helped by slightly increased taxation bands on larger cars. I dubious as to whether that will have any significant impact, though. It seems to me as though the primary reason for most Chinese to buy a car is not transport convenience, but ostentation, pure and simple. Nobody gives a hoot about traffic congestion or the environment, so long as he's got a bigger and swankier car than his neighbour.
uh... yes.
that's not a theory.
that is a fact.
ask anyone. Chinese, anyone, that is. It's all about keeping up with the Joneses, or being so far ahead of them that they'll never be able to catch up.
Recently, Jeep Grand Cherokee deeply discounted its locally manufactured vehicles to make room for expected imports. Import taxes are going down. So more will be imported.
Yippee for the Walkers ---
I think I'm going to adopt a the practice of slamming my hand down on every car hood that gets in my way - the Hash Hound Harrier friend of yours told me he does this and I imagine loads of cars around town with his hand permanantly imprinted on the hood - a reminder to the drivers to watch where they are going.
(Note my first use of place name in this comment! - hurray for coming out!)
Was that Brian? Brian rode his bicycle into (over??) the back of a car a couple of years ago. I don't think that was deliberate, though; just a case of the car stopping suddenly, for no reason. A nasty spill, actually; but he somehow made it sound like calculated revenge against the driver.
I was once attempting to have a serious discussion about economics with some of my mature students, trying to get them to consider whether it really was good for the economy to put so much emphasis on auto manufacturing as a key 'pillar industry'; I suggested the trickle down to the rest of the economy might work better if it were more diversified, if people were for example spending their disposable income more on high-end electronic goods like fridge-freezers, music systems, and wide-screen TVs.
"Wouldn't you rather have a really big TV than a really big car?" I asked foolishly.
"No," one of them replied, "because my neighbour would never see my TV."
True story.
I totally believe it, too - totally keeping up with the Joneses
do they use that phrase in the UK?
I suppose here it is "keeping up with the Wangs"
Yes, it was Brian - i refrained from using his name in case he preferred not to be ID'd... but oh well.
From my one interaction with him, he strikes me as just the type of guy who could run into a car and keeping going. His bike might lie mangled on the sidewalk, but he'd just brush off the dust, slam his hand on the hood and take off with a run.
it's exactly that type of exuberance that made me hesitate to actually join in on any Hash Hound Harrier-ing - not sure I'm "that" nutty about running. But with the weather getting nicer - who knows.
pyjama parties? creative! amusing. the pyjama attire was one of the first amusing things of note when I first came to Beijing in the 1990's - glad to know the local habit continues - a girl needs her amusement.
I did check out the pyjama party album on your Yahoo Photo page. Nice pyjamas. No idea what to say about the position of "mascot" or your state of mind when you took that pic and decided to share it.
Ingenious - you are drawing your readers to read your comments through references and links to the comments in your posts - thereby spurring more comments - well done!
So, have you looked at THAT joke yet? I wonder what you made of it!
uh, I've no clue what "that" refers to. thanks to delayed commenting - this train of email comments was written so long ago that I no longer remember what "that" might refer to.
email me some context?
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