| Monday, April 10, 2006 |
| The Circus World that wasn't. |
 DAMN YOU, CIRCUS WORLD!! Our attempts to see the circus in Shanghai were foiled at every turn.
 But, we saw a slightly-ghetto circus troupe in Beijing on our last night. Adam got his fix of jugglers and diablo girls, and I imagined a career for all my little elementary students who spend recess wobbling around on stilts and unicycles. They were mostly kids or teenagers, and were really good, but it wasn't a polished, professional-level production. The male gymnast crew was amazing, and the older (legal) ones were ripped, and hot... for 5-foot-tall little men in spandex.
 The unexpected finale-- all the boys dressed as chickens. And the lead chicken flaps its wings for a while all over the stage before collapsing in another's arms... or wings. I think. Maybe they were doves? Peace is dead? This is what it looks like when doves cry? Or die? Avian influenza could happen to you? Nani?
 At last, I've found something that looks more unappealing than oden (winter stew/soup, sold in vats on combini countertops, choose your own lumpy things to add to the broth) displays in Japan: oden displays in China! This is at a Lawson's in Shanghai. Are you rolling over in your grave (if you had one) yet, Bae-Yon?
 There's a south animal-killing pavilion? Exactly how many do you need? More importantly, is it related in any way to what is being sold in the oden vats?
 Spring NEW.
 I suppose this rubbish bin was supposed to say "Push". I'd rather like to think it's the Finger of God condemning George Dubya. |
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Chinese Oden? More like "bleugh-den". It looks like the oden is at the back and they've put a trough at the front for drunken businessmen to vomit into before enjoying their delicious boiled-in-stagnant-soup-for-six-days oden.
How unappetising. The vomit that is, not the oden. Mmm. Oden.
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Chinese Oden? More like "bleugh-den". It looks like the oden is at the back and they've put a trough at the front for drunken businessmen to vomit into before enjoying their delicious boiled-in-stagnant-soup-for-six-days oden.
How unappetising. The vomit that is, not the oden. Mmm. Oden.