a shameful waste of madhouse time

woe to those who sit down at reserved seats in Velvet Lounge: 2500 RMB minimum charge! #
will miss La Bella–and wonder what it will become in the future #
some ABC bitch was like “this is so new york.” and she had to repeat that, but its not new york b/c dumb bitches are less [...]

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刘翔 - 诗歌 - 红袖添香 via kwout

The irony is that i was looking for poems by the poet Liu Xiang, whose name is written with the same characters as that of the famous athlete. Clicking on a link I found this poem written on the occasion of Liu Xiang’s victory at the 2007 World Championships. [...]

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I was just reading this article from Ha’aretz about some of China’s major infrastructure projects in Israel, including the Carmel Tunnel. Interesting stuff, for example, a partial list of some of China’s more recent and more prominent projects:

“China’s presence in Israel as an infrastructure builder is new,” says Samuels. “In the past, China used to [...]

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开幕式字模演员“肌肉记忆”掌握896套口令_网易奥运 via kwout

This article from Netease talks about how the character-blocks that moved up and down to form characters and patterns did their work: first of all, there were 896 of them and none of them can see the others, therefore they have to rely on their own sense of timing. The director responsible for [...]

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lanotte_062220070442.jpg (JPEG Image, 550×365 pixels) via kwout

Antonioni films are always difficult for me. They are in their wayso eravishing and yet there is something maddeningly obscure about them. The dialogue is not something that you can understand if you are expecting stuff that echoes regular speech. If you watch the European auteurs of that era [...]

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