So there I was last Friday evening, socializing at a ChinesePod party, an event that celebrated their 1000th podcast. JJ came along with me and we ended up separated at first, she speaking to a really interesting guy who was a newcomer to Shanghai, (only had been here for two weeks) and I talking to both John’s (Pasden and John B and even mini-John B, who I saw in person for the first time. Of course, very cute 
But the historic moment was yet to come. It happened later in the party. I was walking around, probably trying to find someone to socialize with when a man approached me from about 10 feet away. This guy looked at me and his eyes lit up. With his head tilted back as to motion to me that he wanted my attention, he blurted out (and I swear to god I am not making this up) :
‘No way! You are the guy from turnthefanon.com aren’t you!’
I did not know what to say. It was as if my life was complete. I felt like pulling a George Costanza and just walking away from it all. (If you get that Seinfeld reference you get 20 life points. If you know the episode, you get 50 life points). Maybe I am totally crazy, maybe I am completely full of shit, but to be recognized by a complete stranger and then to find out he had actually read my blog and found it to be a really interesting read. That was awesome.
By the way, this guy, whose name is Pete is pretty awesome in his own right. In addition to be a freaking godsend in his Chinese skills, he had this pretty crazy story about living as a monk in a monastery that I heard on ChinesePod that sounded like a really interesting experience. (Listen here). He is also a super good singer (a 麦霸 if you will) and his Elvis impersonation is so good its scary…
That’s it, I’m putting my disembodied head on top of a cartoon monkey (dog?) in the banner on my blog. It’s clearly the best path to online fame.
Its a monkey thank you very much
That was indeed a night to remember. Let’s get a meal sometime when nobody’s hopped up on white wine and Baileys.
Wooo baileys!
Pete: Yah dude, definitely! I live close to your working place so just give me a holler, I’m always online.
Ed: Ahh, remember the good old times. Sipping Bailey’s…. That shit is expensive here (I guess its expensive everywhere though).
The Burning. What a crazy episode as they all are, but if you think about it theres a lotta crap jammed into that one episode. The Airhead/Kronk listens to all Christian radio stations, Kramer “gets gonorrhea” and becomes so good at it that he’s typecast, the Tractor story, Elaine is going to hell…and so is Puddy, and Kruger uses George’s methods back on him and leaves his own meeting on a high note, and as usual this is to George’s dismay.
So either that’s 20 reference points + 50 episode points…but in the end I think its -100 points because I know the entire episode totally offhand. I guess you can credit 20 of those points back because I had to go back and lookup the episode title. -10 points isn’t all that bad i suppose.
Keep up the entertainment Sean-o
Sure… i have people coming up to me about turnthefanoff.com like 10 x a day. Not a big deal… well i guess its a big deal for an inferior blog. Its the norm for turnthefanoff.com …. no but really that is pretty cool, keep up the good posts
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Привет. Образовалась проблема - купил я электродрель на магазин ру
А она сломалась у меня в тот же день - гарантии практически никакой не дали. Просто почта пришла с коробкой, а там все на китайском. Написал в торговый центр этот, дали ответ, что обращайтесь в сервис центр, но у меня ни документов на руках нет, ничего. Как возможно приструнить этот онлайн магазин? Есть ли какие-то компетентные органы, что писать. Куда писать, кому писать. Ошибся, да, надо было в магазине нормальном прикупить, хотя необходимой мне модели просто не было, да и подешевле в интернет-магазине. А вот и уже сижу у разбитого корыта. Подскажите, что делать.