Zut alors, Sing Victor! Eef zis eesn’t the chiquest and ‘ottest fanpage about Zhang Ziyi (章子怡 the spoiled-brat starlet) I ‘ave ever zeen!
Zhang Ziyi, the spoiled-brat starlet
Yes, she’s ‘ot.
But Net Nanny is still much much ‘otter.
Tags: beauty, blogging, bullshit, image, international, media, volunteers
November 9, 2008 at 11:44 am
Methinks Zhang Ziyi and Pepe Le Pew deserve each other:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=JEdBndu0YUM
November 9, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Now let’s see what this post will do to your blog’s traffic. I refer here to comments on your earlier thread, “The Makings of a Successful Blog Post”, about the magic of Zhang Ziyi as a search parameter. I recall that on the beloved departed Sinocidal, they observed this way back, and stirred the proverbial shit by inserting it gratuitously into the most unlikely posts. Yes, it works, sometimes in an unexpected way.
November 9, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Dear JR,
mmph, mmmph, hack, hack, HAGGGHK! BLEAGGH! (slurp slurp).
Self-induced votimingly yours,
Zhang “Bulimia” Ziyi
cf: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=rSBNT5WKizg
November 9, 2008 at 3:06 pm
I was thinking about creating a tag extra for her, too. But I don’t think she’ll become that much of a topic here, and I want to stay kind of focused. Of course I’m curious if she’s going to be one of JR’s Stars.
November 9, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Well I’ve just created an entirely new category for our blog, titled, “Obama the Messiah”.
November 10, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Ned, in which case you may like to see this cartoon of St Barack the Divine from TimesOnline:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3037/3018465941_b69c6fe163_o.jpg
November 10, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Have fun with Obama – if he becomes a successful president – I confidently hope he will – you’ll have a perpetuum mobile topic for almost a decade.
November 11, 2008 at 8:11 am
I cannot speak of others, but in my own perception, this Times cartoon is a comment on some of Obama’s fans (both home and abroad), not the man himself.
I have no doubts about his potential for becoming a successful president; I worry about whether the world at large is prepared to do their part, too, to help him be (even more) successful. Because most of the burning issues today concern all of us, not just the US.
Read “Show Me the Money” op-ed in NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/opinion/09friedman.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin
“So to everyone overseas I say: thanks for your applause for our new president. I’m glad you all feel that America “is back.” If you want Obama to succeed, though, don’t just show us the love, show us the money. Show us the troops. Show us the diplomatic effort. Show us the economic partnership. Show us something more than a fresh smile. Because freedom is not free and your excuse for doing less than you could is leaving town in January.”
I think that’s a good point, too, to make to all those who vilify the outgoing US administration, without stopping to think how much their own failure to get involved, and actually DO something, contributed to the ensuing disaster.
November 11, 2008 at 4:35 pm
As I wrote on November 5:
“Then there are the tools of reshifting the budget, and fiscal policies. Heated negotiations within NATO (and a quick end to exaggerated European expectations to America’s new leadership) will be inevitable, if the new administration wants to save on military spending, and its allies to do their part. Europe’s own military spending, absolutely and proportionally, is much smaller than America’s so far.”
And you bet there’ll be quarrels. But if those lead to common strategies, they aren’t only inevitable, but good.