Who are the top 10 foreign athletes in China?Hint: Tiger Woods is not one of them. Check out the whole list here.
Shanghai Tattoo now selling Chinese indie rock CDsWe know, we know. We live in a digital era so it makes sense for us to just download everything. But sometimes, there's something nice about looking through cover art and popping in a CD. No, not a vinyl. We're not THAT music snobbish. In any case, there's now a place in Shanghai to get all your Chinese indie rock music in shiny jewel cases: Shanghai Tattoo, located at the Cool Docks in Huangpu. They're selling CDs from rock labels Maybe Mars, Pilot Music & Modern Sky (which means you can get bands like Convenience Store, PK14, Carsick Cas and Hedgehog) for from 20RMB to 70RMB. If you're ever in the neighborhood, pop over and give this oldfangled media a listen.
Olympic condoms are faster, higher, strongerAttention, all y’all who want to capture some of that Olympic vitality: 5,000 official condoms distributed to athletes during the Beijing Olympics are finding their way to the auction block November 29 for
ahem
hard core collectors. The bidding price for the condoms, in special packages printed with “faster, higher, stronger,” (the Olympic motto), will start at 1RMB. Officials believe that most of the condoms were not in fact used, but taken home by participants as souvenirs - let’s hope these are the ones up for bid.
The saga of erotic audio fiction series "Night Talk"Did you know there used to be an erotic audio book website based out of Shanghai that was immensely popular? We didn’t until we heard about its court case - where the site was shut down and the main female voice actress was sentenced to two years in prison - and we feel all the worse for it. The service, “Night Talk,” attracted 2 million hits, recorded 260,000 downloads and had sales of around 40,000RMB on its 953 episodes of erotic fiction before it was finally brought down. But the shutting up of “Night Talk” has just stirred the fervor for the audio books, with Chinese netizens aplenty desperately searching for remaining traces of its digital files.
We're kind of a big dealOr so it would seem from CNNGo’s most recent Shanghai Hot List of 20 people you should watch. Both former and current editors, Kenneth Tan and Elaine Chow, made it to the rankings, which also include such Shanghai notables as the founder of Dianping.com and Yao Ming. How or why they've been listed alongside the founder of Dianping.com and Yao Ming we shall never know - however, since they're not ones to check the mouth of a gift fame horse (or so the saying goes)... Thanks CNNGo! If you see them around town, feel free to ask for an autograph
but please, no pictures.
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