Did Someone Say Sex?
When I’m good, I’m very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better. - Mae West
One of the creative forces behind danwei.org spoke at The Bookworm last year about blogging. Among his key messages: sex sells. I think he must be setting sales records.
Today, for example, four of the first seven posts on danwei.org concern, you got it, sex! Topics include pole dancing, Anna May Wong (”the sexiest Chinese American woman ever to grace the silver screen”), Chinabounder (a foreign man who blogs about scoring with Shanghai women) and a Sohu sex survey. The last is notable, given 12 of the post’s 280 words have “sex,” including an incredible five of the first 16.
In fact, danwei.org has so much sex that when I tried to use the find function to count it all, my keyboard immediately started smoking and I had to give up. I didn’t dare check the site’s Sexy Beijing TV series
Unfortunately, it’s hard for me to use the “sex sells” strategy on my blog. If I were into clubbing or hanging out at Bar Blu, Vics or Maggies, I could pepper things up, but I tend toward sitting on a bar stool, drinking Bourbon and chatting with friends.
My best bet is to slip in the odd typo. Like referring to Tim’s Texas BBQ as Tim’s Sexas BBQ or, even better, Tim’s Sex-Ass BBQ, and using phrases such as smoked meat, in the saddle, and hot and spicy jalapeno potato salad (the last one won’t draw much site traffic, but I feel compelled to recommend it as a side order for your ribs). Even so, most opportunities are limited to changing an “m” to an “s” — Peter’s Tex Sex, Sexican Wave, Sexican Kitchen…
By the way, it’s not all sex, sex and sex over at dansexwei.orgsex. The site has also has some interesting stuff on China’s drinking scene, including these two related pieces:
Is there a drinking age in China?
Underage Super Girls hawking baijiu
And a trilogy from 2003:
Some of the guys at danwei.org are also behind those sexy - no, supersexy - Centro bar ads. Now those sell.
(Note: In a week, I’ll check my site’s traffic and discover whether the “sex sells” strategy has worked.)
3 commentsFlashback: A Taillan Tour in Photos
Pictures, pictures, pictures - that’s my friend Kraft-D’s advice for this blog. Last night, I dug up a few dozen from a November 2005 trip to Taillan, a winery just outside Beijing. Sequoia Cafe owner Frank Siegel and the American Community Club co-organized the trip (for full details, see Tying One on at Taillan).
General Manager Alain Leroux (above, right) led our tour of Taillan, a ten-year-old Sino-French venture. He said that the vines are grafted to North American rootstalk to protect them from phylloxera, a kind of plant lice.
He also gave us some insights into producing wine in China. “At the beginning, French people thought it would be an easy market, but no.”
With that cleared up, we headed inside and learned that the vats can store up to 100,000 bottles worth of wine. Taillan has enough equipment to process thousands of bottles per hour, often doing bottling for other companies.
Our little group could never handle even an hour of Taillan’s output, but we were ready to try. After Frank unpacked a picnic lunch of cold cuts, cheese, breads and potato salad, we worked our way through what Alain called “drinkable” wines, including a 2000 Chardonnay, 2003 Rose, 2003 Malbec (my favorite), Merlot, 2001 Pinot Noir and 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon.
Drinkable, indeed!
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