Cruz may be a blowhard, but when his favorite restaurant is Tortilla Coast I think he gives up any claims to pomposity.

That was in the House.

Ooh—I love the Tang and was so thrilled to see a ton of Tang stuff when I went to Xi’an. Mark Edward Lewis’s history of Tang China just went onto my reading list, which I keep as a sticky on my computer screen (which I hesitate to put in a word document because I’m afraid of how long it would be).

China, 5000 Years: Innovation & Transformation in the Arts: Very cool so far, and even cooler is that it is available for free in a variety of formats at the Internet Archive. It’s a pretty great (and accessible) overarching view of the history of Chinese art and how it intersected with the broader development of…

Misread this as Richard Kiley—now I can’t stop giggling

It sounds truly offal.

Amputee Scar Love

Mostly the baser ones

Lucky for you Efron just signed on for a Phineas Gage biopic.

Despite liking Gaga and the Muppets, I don’t think this will turn out well because of the split between the Muppets and the rest of the Henson stuff. It will probably be very blah and saccharine and not really play to the Muppets’ or Gaga’s strengths.

Given the general lack/low quality of chocolate in China, whenever I’d buy a bag of M&M’s it seemed like a really decadent way of treating myself—it actually took me a while to finish them because my palate had adjusted.

The Dutch buy their concessions in the same way the Americans do, but also have way fewer commercials (one of them inevitably for Grolsch, just like at our own AV Club, and recently they’ve started playing an animated-but-still-kind-of-gruesome anti-fur commercial involving foxes wearing human skin).

It really depends on who’s giving and who’s receiving.

This is the first I’ve heard of this depraved practice.

I don’t even understand their recommended strategy—make people sit for ads, then sell them concessions?How do you enforce this without pissing people off? It really seems like one of those cure-worse-than-the-disease situations.

This is one of my favorite newswires ever.

Man Ray’s matter-of-fact acceptance of Gil’s statement about being dislodged in time was my favorite moment in the film, though.

And look at the stars.

But we’re vulgar and unfunny, not race-baiting and homophobic!

wtf is hub lol