Weather was crazy warm in HK with the temperature in the 70s (but mad humid you know how Asia do). When it wasn't hazy the view during the day wasn't too shabby either.
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Just saw "Night at the Museum" on a DVD I bought for 70 cents (USD). For some reason when Ben Stiller started speaking in Russian, I started to have this sneaking suspicion that maybe this product was not 100% legit. Anyway the 2 buildings in the background below remind of those giant Easter Island heads. What makes the picture for me though is the dolphin refuse receptacle.
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And what night out in HK could be complete without a trip to Lan Kwai Fong?
It's literally bar next to bar next to a pub under a club overlooking a pub. Take that NYC zoning bureaucrats!
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In order to deal with the never-ending swarms of people I often found refuge by putting on earphones and listening to the good ol' ipod. One day I brought it back and dug up The Chronic. Wow. So good. When was the last time you listened to that album front to back? I kind of forgot how formidable young Snoop was. Seriously how sick/slept on is the track, "Stranded on Death Row"? You got Bushwick Bill on a Dr. Dre track = Genius.
Definitely made for some interesting audio/visual juxtapositions...
"Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat like that!"
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Charlie can relate to this.
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Hong Kong got sneaker heads too.
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I apologize for the blurriness of this next picture, but I couldn't believe my eyes. I wondered if this dude:
a) has been rocking the French roll since the 80s.
b) recently decided to bring it back and be "ironic."
c) came up with this new rolling up style on his own like on some Newton and Leibniz ish.
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"Have you seen my sunglasses girlfriend? You know I can't be leaving the house without my Versace's. I gots to look good heyyyy!! Don't rush me OK I have to find these sunglasses! All I have is this visor with a shaded bill. For real where are my sunglasses?! Wait hold up hold up! What if I just take this visor and..."
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Got back to Beijing on Wednesday. So fresh and so clean it is not. Beijing is like the raw ("I'ma give it to ya/with no trivia...") with all its construction and development. You can taste the development when you breathe (gross son!). The air actually reminds me of NY in the weeks following 9/11, which is not a good thing.
Pretty interesting though to see the contrast between Hong Kong and Beijing. Hong Kong is much more like New York in the sense that a "been there done that" attitude pervades. In Beijing everything is so new and fresh. Many of all these buildings and restaurants and bars and stores and everything have only sprung up in the past 5-10 years. Everything is on the come up.
Got the gears in the noggin' going. Do Chinese people wanna throw some D's on it too?
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French rolls kid....that sh*t is crisp. Do you remember anyone that did not roll their cuffs? Could anyone compete with K-Foresman's roll?
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