A news item on Hong Kong television in early March shows four local boys in their late teens emerging for an all-night McDonalds and striding down the street abreast like…
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POPULAR CULTURE & SOCIAL LIFE
In the McDonalds in this western area of Beijing I am upstairs eating with ye-ye’s, ba-ba’s and kids and grandkids on a Saturday morning. Under the din I can hear the refrains…
Take a photo of somebody from an aboriginal tribe. That’s if you can find an aboriginal tribe anymore that isn’t into rap music, or opening a casino. Take a little…
A “black hole” is a cosmological phenomenon wherein gravity is so powerful that it compresses matter to the point where a region of space-time is created from which escape to the outside…
A few years ago I was riding on the light rail system in Hong Kong’s New Territories. I was sitting in front of a bulkhead with a glass frame…
Back in 2006 there was the Michael Richards incident. Since I never watched Seinfeld, I had no idea who this guy was; so the furor over his racial slurs on…
Note: The following may be unsuitable for young children and adults with no sense of irony whatsoever. That is, what may be regarded as “politically incorrect” is intended…
Back in the Pleistocene, when I was a kid, a favored form of leisure was “the Sunday Drive.” The whole family would pile into the (only) family car and…
The people laboriously making their way up the hill don’t look very athletic to me. Some are a bit too old and out of shape and a few should…
If you can’t think of something nice to say about someone, then say nothing at all. (Old Proverb) If you can’t think of something nice to say about someone,…