Email: “Your comments on Rui Fu suggest powers of observation so weak that you would no doubt have trouble matching socks , finding Waldo or counting the fingers on one hand, let alone reviewing a club. “The main floor is divided into two large narrow rooms joined by an opening,” you claim. In fact, there is but one room. “…tables and chairs, then lounge areas, flow until they meet that opening, beyond which figures appear as silhouettes,” you claim. In fact, the “beyond” is actually the first room reflected in a mirror. Nice work, Sherlock Holmes. If you could learn to develop some characters, you might have a future in fiction. (By the way, I loved your “plush karaoke, generic hotel casino, and modernized opium den” reference — kisses!) “ - B. Boyce
BB: I thought I'd beat someone to the punch on that one. Rui Fu does , in fact, have one room. In my own defense, I'm easily distracted, the mirror on the far side is *really* shiny, and it does look like a passageway. Here's the worst part: Around 10 PM one night, I was writing a review of Rui Fu based on a single one-hour visit and felt that was unfair, so I decided to delay the newsletter, threw on some decent clothes, headed over there, ended up taking to owner Henry Li for an hour, got a better feel for the club, and then came back and ADDED the part about two rooms. Yes, in this case, more research resulted in greater inaccuracy . Go figure.
Email : “W Sports Bar does not have a pool table.” - W. Thomas
b: I was wrong (again). Last issue, I wrote that W has a table hockey game buried amid enough stuff to make for a most excellent yard sale, including, “[a] ping pong table, dartboard, big-screen TV, pool table , art, grand piano, foosball table, etc.”
My bad: mae yo pool table.
Nevertheless, I won't retract the ensuing comment: “Is there anywhere else in town where you might simultaneously hear “Who's serve?,” “ Bull's eye! ,” “I'll have two beers, please,” “Eight ball, corner pocket,” and “This is simply too Dadaist for my taste,” all while someone chops out Mozart and a Formula 1 race shows?”
Even without a table, that “ eight ball ” comment could still easily be heard from a confused ping pong player, coverage of the world pool championships on the big screen, or… actually, forget it, there's no way I'm going to make a cheap baggy pants joke.
Email: “You've listed Club Football as one of our editor's picks – NO! It's the unique RED BALL BAR – can you issue a correction?” - H. La
BB : I was wrong again (again). (People should be used to this by now, but no, in flood the emails.) This time, an eagle-eyed staffer from that's Beijing (TBJ) pointed out that I listed Club Football , rather than Red Ball Bar , as an honorable mention as bar of the year.
(“I love the Ball because it's so unique and different. There's a smashing atmosphere , the staff are so friendly and helpful, it’s superb value [where else can you get a bottle/carton of decent wine for RMB 50?] and it’s so different from any other bar I've been to,” he/she enthused.)
Fair enough. Correction issued. To err is human , they say, as TBJ itself showed by not giving a single editor's pick to Browns, even though that place won the popular vote, is frequented by other bar owners and employees… well, you know the story (and yes, that was a cheap shot ).
Aside 1 : Most of my British friends hate Browns . They disdainfully describe it as typical of this or that horrible bar in London, Muckchester, Corkingham or wherever they call home. Message received — about a million times so far. And I'm sure the Beijing natives living in the Isles aren't overly fond of the Chinese restaurants there. Such is life. The thing is, we're not in Britain , nor do most of us hail from there, and Browns is what it is — a place for good, clean fun. Where else will you find seven young guys raucously celebrating a birthday while nearby two couples in their seventies happily boogie to eighties tunes? Not cool, you say? Well, some people dislike pretentiousness or simply aren't trendy, thus we need Browns, the great melting pot of bars in this city. So, for the love of Buddha, and Ben Elton, please stop the hating ! Pretty please? Pretty please with Boddington foam and frozen blood pudding shavings on top?
이외에도 2 : 자네와 같은 아마추어가 진정한 자신의 인식의 권력과 점수 주요 뉴스 특종을 켜면 주류 미디어가 disheartened해야합니다. 내 얼마 전에 몇 가지 Sanlitun 여행지를 흰둥이 오바 댄싱 전염병에 노출될보세요. 중국 일보, 월스트리트 저널과 그 친척은 완전히 그 모습을보고 싶었어. 그렇다면 가장 최근의 특종이 있어요 : 안경-입은 스타일과 바 성공 사이의 직접 링크를 적. 내 긴 조사 기간 동안 축적된 증거는 여러 볼륨을 작성하지만, 내가 두 가지를 제시하게합니다. 첫째, 자사의 바 시상식에 대한 최근 TBJ 이야기 한 아니라 2 안 보여주지만 석 승리 소유자들은 시각적으로 투표 생산 신성으로 가능성이 천장을보고 있었 모낭에 도전하고 있었다 것처럼, 그들의 머리 위에 안경을 착용하고 넘어. 둘째, 스토리에 사진에없는 다른 수많은 경력이있는 소유자는 유사한 방식으로 안경을 착용하고 식장에서 목격됐다. 링크가 명확하지만, 그 의미는? 그것의 긍정적인 효과를 계량하기 어려운 반면, 예를 들어, 매출 레이 - 금지 초점이 둘인 선글라스, 제 생각엔 0.3 % 지려면 22.7 %입니다. (장미빛 렌즈와 근시 분들은 분명 덜 영향을 미칠 것입니다.)이 거꾸로 야구 모자를 착용 소유자를 금지하기 위해 명암을 : 난 그런 낮은 눈썹은 일반적으로 자신의 기업 주 만에 파산 볼 수 있으며 50 달러 서 추정 자발적 combusting의 마약으로 확률이 높아집니다. 교훈은 간단합니다 : 바 성공은 당신의 안경이 위를 가리키는 유지하고 공을 모자를 앞으로 가리키는 계속한다면 당신이고, 이상적으로 (뚜껑 위에 안경, 물론) 모두 수행. 그리고, 반드시 먼저 여기를 들었어요.
이메일 : "그것은 큰 쉬운에 대해 듣기 초밖에 끔찍 그것은 쉽게 내 시절부터 최고의 재즈 가수 중 일부를했다.
버본 스트리트 67 년 베트남으로 향하고 전에. 그들은 다른 곳에서 열 거죠 "- JW을
BB : 그것은 정말 좋은 질문 이네요 그리고 내가 대답을위한 단서를 가지고 있지 않습니다. 아마 큰 용이는 새로운 라틴 옆에 옮겨놓을 것입니다! 밖은 누구나 몇 가지 내부 정보를 가지고?
(첫 번째 2006년 8월 31일에 이메일로 베이징 보이스 XXIII, 이상)