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Retired teacher gives "thank you" letter to people who offer their seats up on the bus
Being the upstanding citizens that we are, we're always quick to offer our seats on public transporation to the disabled and elderly. We rarely expect anything more than a quick thanks from our beneficiary. But according to Xinmin Newspaper (新民日报), one retired teacher has stepped his thanking up a notch and made a habit of giving a letter of gratitude to every person who's ever gotten up for him.
Playing Tomorrow: Christina Aguilera
Tomorrow night, a possibly pregnant Christina Aguilera will perform at the Shanghai Grand Stage. Since May, Shanghaiist has been looking forward to this extravaganza and now that we bought our tickets (thanks Taobao!), we are as happy as a clam! Based on her previous stops in her Back to Basics tour, the setlist should look something like this: 1. Ain't No Other Man 2. Back in the Day 3. Understand 4. Come On Over Baby...
The Chinese won't drink wine? Let's try bribing them
An organization called the International Wine Culture Promotion Association -- which apparently has had 578 visits to its website -- really wants China to take up wine drinking, so much so that they are "donating" 100,000 wine cellars to middle class China. In alcoholism parlance, they would be known as an enabler. From Xinhua:
This week in -ist: What's happening around the Gothamist Network
Phillyist notes a fistfight between local pols that leaves one man down for the count. Jehovah's Witnesses get a Philly contributor out of bed, things get a little geeky with a film festival and geeky gets taken to a whole new galaxy when they talk with the Dragon Queen of the Dark Kingdom.

