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The government wouldn't let us do our show tonight for reasons that
were unclear. It was also unclear how they didn't let us do the show,
because for all the shouts and chaos at the venue, I didn't see anyone
wearing a uniform doing anything. Someone just didn't want it to
happen, and someone else listened. Someone who was not the government
also wouldn't turn on the air conditioning in the venue, though I
think Americans bluffed poorly early in that discussion, and were
scared of disturbing the non-existent harmony we were told to expect here. I'd love to here the translator repeating the English "no, sure, that's cool, whatever, we're fine, no problem, yeah, no, it's not that hot, in celsius, the crew had to deal with it all day so yeah, fine if that just continues, never disrupt, change is backwards" in Chinese. We have excellent scowling face and have used very often with this population and would have used it with bonus many crossed fingers and complicated head tilts to get this conditioning achievement. Then again, we did only work about half of what we expected today, and heat was less than double expected, so we are aromatically ahead in this regard.
Taxi drivers have no fucking clue where they are at any given
time, or where they are going. They don't always care where you want
to go either, but the fares are so cheap we don't mind taking one ride
to nowhere, to catch another cab to your final destination, like an
airline. Showing a cab driver a map is useless, they sometimes motion
to their eyes like they can't see, so there's that problem too. You
will never get exactly where you are going, unless it is the Hard Rock
Cafe and then there are only about 33% of the cab drivers who will
take you there. The recent earthquake is likely to be put on the list
of unmentionables very soon, as the stories in the American press are
quite believable based on our slice of this pie, and it makes our
government look downright chatty in comparison.
were unclear. It was also unclear how they didn't let us do the show,
because for all the shouts and chaos at the venue, I didn't see anyone
wearing a uniform doing anything. Someone just didn't want it to
happen, and someone else listened. Someone who was not the government
also wouldn't turn on the air conditioning in the venue, though I
think Americans bluffed poorly early in that discussion, and were
scared of disturbing the non-existent harmony we were told to expect here. I'd love to here the translator repeating the English "no, sure, that's cool, whatever, we're fine, no problem, yeah, no, it's not that hot, in celsius, the crew had to deal with it all day so yeah, fine if that just continues, never disrupt, change is backwards" in Chinese. We have excellent scowling face and have used very often with this population and would have used it with bonus many crossed fingers and complicated head tilts to get this conditioning achievement. Then again, we did only work about half of what we expected today, and heat was less than double expected, so we are aromatically ahead in this regard.
Taxi drivers have no fucking clue where they are at any given
time, or where they are going. They don't always care where you want
to go either, but the fares are so cheap we don't mind taking one ride
to nowhere, to catch another cab to your final destination, like an
airline. Showing a cab driver a map is useless, they sometimes motion
to their eyes like they can't see, so there's that problem too. You
will never get exactly where you are going, unless it is the Hard Rock
Cafe and then there are only about 33% of the cab drivers who will
take you there. The recent earthquake is likely to be put on the list
of unmentionables very soon, as the stories in the American press are
quite believable based on our slice of this pie, and it makes our
government look downright chatty in comparison.
Also, we are overstaying our VISAs by a day or so and they're cool with that, we were told sort of. I guess it's cool. We had a nice time at the old wall thingy the other day, and paid a
cab driver $20 to wait three hours in the ridiculous heat so we could
march around on top of it. The toboggan thingy was cool too, I think
they added that recently or something. Definitely during the Phun-
Azshit Dynasty or something.
posted by Michael Flanagan at 8:29 AM
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