Undead Astronauts

filial chinese are posting wanted ads for rental boyfriends to take home to mom and dad. flarezz, u should look into this.

Her criteria for eligible bachelors were fairly demanding. They should be educated, employed, well-behaved and between 170 and 180 centimeters, or 5 feet 7 inches to 5 feet 9 inches, tall. Glasses — a sign of erudition to her father — a plus. One other thing: “Don’t be too skinny.”

The successful applicant would earn 5,000 renminbi, or $735, for the 10-day home stay during the Lunar New Year holiday, also known here as Spring Festival. Lest candidates get the wrong idea, the woman also wrote: “We will not sleep together.”

i’m sure u could negotiate that last stipulation.

http://www.zonaeuropa.com/201001c.brief.htm#019

only in china would u see something this ridiculous and this awesome (unfortunately, no embed allowed). china needed somewhere to park it’s money, so they built an entire city that no one lives in except the construction workers. this is the subprime mortgage crisis X 1000.

but hey, it’s a nice clean, modern city in every other respect. who can knock that right?

thought this was interesting. sure, it’s propaganda, but it’s still interesting.

all ethnicities here.

the nation’s 5 fattest counties are “Greene and Dallas counties in Alabama and Holmes, Humphreys and Jefferson counties in Mississippi.” these counties are mostly populated by poor rural african-americans, and some of the estimates might be off, the article said.

other righteously rotund counties are in appalachian territory like kentucky and west virginia.

sad and pathetic, but unsurprising. counties in colorado, new mexico and utah had the lowest obesity rates.

Chinese meteorologists covered Beijing in snow Sunday after seeding clouds to bring winter weather to the capital in an effort to combat a lingering drought, state media reported.

Article here.

Wha?

dan chung did some time-lapse photography of the 60th anniversary parade.

China’s 60th Anniversary national day – timelapse and slow motion – 7D and 5DmkII from Dan Chung on Vimeo.

it was a pretty parade, but i mean really… china, get w/ the fucking times. stuff like this makes it look to the world like you’re still stuck in the 1950s. except for the girls in red. just cut the midriff out of those costumes and whoa, i could watch that all day.