Beijing Boyce

UPDATE: Turns out danwei was all over this story an hour ago like a bunch of university students on the last hash brownie. “[Man Wenjun] was arrested for drug use during a raid on Coco Banana, a nightclub located outside the west gate of the Workers’ Stadium. … According to an eyewitness, the police raided the nightclub yesterday morning around two o’clock. About ten people were taken away, the 40-year-old Man among them. Police confirmed Man’s arrest to the newspaper.” danwei states that the nightclub “has been ordered to suspend operation.”

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According to sina.com, singer and songwriter Man Wenjun was among those arrested during a police raid at Coco Banana on Workers Stadium West last night. Apparently, he tested positive for drugs after taking a urine test. I will update this post shortly because, frankly, I stink at translation.

But three things come to mind:

- I think it unwise for anyone to be taking risks ahead of a certain upcoming twentieth anniversary.

- If the police are looking for drugs, they landed just west of some real good action.

- And the question of the moment: whether, as DJ Chunky asks, the club was playing hip hop with techno or techno with hip hop when the police arrived, cuz it affects the mood of the raid, know what i’m sayin’? (Thanks to The Chunk for the link).

Yesterday, I put a post on sibling blog Grape Wall about a wine sold in China with tasting notes better associated with a B-grade porno. I tenuously linked this to the world’s greatest wine critic, Robert Parker, who once rated a wine made by Italian adult film star Savanna Samson.

As I pasted that post on this blog, The Village Grouch, sitting across from me in The Bookworm, said, “Duh, don’t put the whole thing on the bar blog. Use a teaser and link to the wine blog.”

Well, okay then. Here it is.

While I’m at it, let me plug a few other recent Grape Wall posts that are as equally tantalizing – if you are into China’s wine scene, that is. Like this one about our project to taste more than a hundred local wines and post the findings in Chinese, English, and French, these pieces with Leo Liu of Sureno and Olivier Six of La Baie des Anges, this interview with Alder Yarrow, arguably the world’s most important wine blogger, and this one about the challenges Chateau Lafite will face in setting up a winery in Shandong.

How many Parker points? (msn.com)