As a non-drinker, in the company of a buncha reprobates, my experience watching my friends drink soju is fine -> fine -> fine -> fine-> drunker than they've ever been in their entire lives. It's like falling off a cliff how fast they go from sober to tripping on sidewalks, trying to exit taxi cabs on the freeway,…

Supposedly he HATES this photo. So I'm not going to share it.

And I’m convinced the Japanese have fine-tuned the art of chicken frying better than any culinary culture.

. Had Van Damme not brought Woo to America,

My money is on Brawndo

Man, I really love the Firm. The chase, with the piano track behind it? Good good good.

an unnecessary sentence or two about how cute Maggie Cheung is in this movie.

I once stood in line behind Anita Mui at Narita Airport about six months before she passed away.

You break my record, I break you.

It was really Kellyanne Conway

Iron Monkey is an excellent place to start.

Grisham books always made better movies than actual reading material. The end of the Firm in the novel is so convoluted - the way they cleaned it up for the movie makes a better story.

He didn't kill his wife!

Have you watched the reboot of Hawaii Five-0 with Mark Dacascos as the villain? I'm not going to claim it's a good TV show or anything, but it's a great commercial for Hawaii, and he's a lot of fun and chews a lot of scenery as the overarching big bad for the first few seasons.

They'll never get to the far far reaches of those provinces. Sure, Urumuqi is now mainly Chinese, but no internal migrants want to live out in Kashgar or anywhere in Qinghai (it's like Nevada like desolate out there - just the Chinese space program and political prisons).

He will be. Speaking fees will be through the roof.

It is a location - it's Michael Caine's house.

Funny enough, Austria.

When did Lea Salonga become white? (your point is taken though). Disney has gotten much better in the ensuing years - see: Moana, Mulan

Western China is Islamic - especially Xinjiang, but also parts of Gansu, Qinghai, and Shaanxi - anything West of Xi'an, and Xi'an itself has a giant mosque and the most common meat is lamb.