( The opium trade and Hong Kong are so obviously intertwined that it is hardly possible to consider the early history of the colony without some reference to the drug: the colony was founded because of opium; its principal merchants grew rich on opium; and its government subsisted on the high land rent and the revenue made possibly by the opium trade. )

immured in your solitude
amid puling and pulescent creatures,
who drools over your sarcocarp?
ants may find it first.

The radio said that this toy has become so popular that it is sold out in many stores and you can't even reserve orders for future stock. As you may or may not pick up from the video, 1 in 100 pops is a random animal sound ( Read more... )

( Today the repressiveness of Victorian society is condemned as a mixture of social snobbishness and sexual fear. But behind these motivations, there was something, if not more appealing, at least more understandable. )

The public as an immoral domain meant rather different things to women and men. For women, it was where one risked losing virtue, dirtying oneself.... The public and the idea of disgrace were closely allied. The public for a bourgeois man had a different moral tone. By going out in public, or “losing yourself in public,” as the phrase occurred in ( Read more... )

I doubt there are many orgasms going around [with young girls]. I think when they're all giving boys blowjobs, that's just what they think they have to do. And then they seem cool. It was like in my days, smoking a cigarette. Now it's the same thing, it's just a fatter and stinkier cigarette. It's just as nauseating, no doubt, but you're cool if ( Read more... )

"I got to the area where he was supposed to be, looked around a bit and didn't see Ma Lin," the paper quoted a guard as saying. "He just looked too much like a terra cotta warrior." http://world.commongate.com/post/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinabounder

http://chinabounder.blogspot.com/

CBC Radio just aired a reading of Brion Gysin's recipee for hashish fudge from a Norwegian translation of Alice B. Toklas's cookbook.

Also, 2 hearts, 3 kidneys and 3.5 lungs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_and_Brittany_Hensel

Also...

http://www.thehumanmarvels.com/labels/women.html