Hooters in China

BRAIN: it’s like a cultural bulldozer
BRAIN: I almost feel sorry for China
BRAIN: then I think of Tibet
BRAIN: CHAIRMAN!! CHAOS COMES FOR YOU!!
BRAIN: CAN NO ONE OFFER ME A CHALLENGE

Lin Lixia of the Women’s Law Studies and Legal Services at Peking University called Hooters an example of “hot-girl economics,” a strategy of profiting from female sex appeal. Though quite the norm in the U.S., the concept is relatively new in China, where economic reforms are only three decades old.”

SAMIR: China is pretty good at just subsuming stuff into itself
SAMIR: I’m more worried about India
SAMIR: they lack the… remarkable philosophy that lets them survive everything
BRAIN: yes but:
BRAIN: will china be able to digest raw american plastic?
BRAIN: it destroyed russia!
BRAIN: it turned japan into something… different

Jiang has worked at Hooters since it opened in Beijing in 2008. At the time, she was studying law at a university in the city. She has since dropped out of school to work full time. Being a lawyer reflected her parents’ wishes, not hers, she said.

SAMIR: that is just a wonderful story
SAMIR: GO AMERICA!
SAMIR: making whores out of your women!
SAMIR: WOO
BRAIN: wooo!
BRAIN: America!
BRAIN: fuck yeah!
SAMIR: my only beef is this:
SAMIR: I hate the middle ground
SAMIR: I hate girls gone wild
SAMIR: and hooters
BRAIN: hey we can’t all be japan
SAMIR: I want like…
SAMIR: larry flynt
BRAIN: max hardcore?
SAMIR: and chinese boys getting pegged in the ass by their women
BRAIN: yeah
SAMIR: like, otherwise it’s just misogyny. it’s more fun when the entire value system implodes!
BRAIN: but baby, just let me write “SLUT” on your forehead while I poop in your mouth
BRAIN: it’s ok we’re going steady
SAMIR: yeah!
SAMIR: honey, it doesn’t do it for me if I can’t pretend you’re actually my grandfather and I’m sodomizing you
BRAIN: did I tell you about that thing on the BBS
BRAIN: where someone said
SAMIR: no?
BRAIN: ‘is it weird that my gf always says something about her daddy when we’re doign it? like “Do me daddy?” ‘
BRAIN: and the undergrads go
BRAIN: YES.
SAMIR: ha

SpazzmaRazz

I dreamed there was an arcade game made by Ninendo (© 2010) called SpazzmaRazz, or Razz the Spazz –

It was a multiplayer with a big console but a thin, wide screen. In the center was a 3D or holographic projection of the Spazz, which was a cute white ball with googly eyes – looking a bit like the sprite from Howl’s Moving Castle (or maybe from Oglaf).

The controls were a trackball and a giant oversized musical keyboard, a single octave.

The point of the game was to stress out the Spazz by making noise with the keyboard and jostling him around with the trackball. I think you could also make noise with a mic and jump up and down to activate motion sensors. In early levels the Spazz is pretty neurotic and easily perturbed, but later ones have him positively sleepy and apathetic, and it takes a great deal of exertion to get a rise out of him.