Tonight is closing ceremonies and we will undoubtedly be sitting in front of The Needle -- the name we gave our TV. Maria has watched Opening Ceremonies four times. Not the whole thing every time, but the drumming and the dancing. She now dances and floats around like the muses from the opening show.
As you look toward the end, consider taking a peek at my friend, Brian's blog -- The Beijing Bulletin -- for a behind-the-scenes look at covering the Olympics.
Brian is the AP sports photo editor who hired me to go to Cuba in 1991 for the Pan American Games. I was a photo gopher, running film between venues and the Havana Hilton, where they were processed and sent via satellite back to New York. His wife was my kick-ass city editor when I worked in N.J.
Through Brian I met my husband, who also was on assignment in Havana that summer. So, Brian always will be kind of Fairy Godmother to us.
In related Beijing-ness, these photos were in my in-box this morning. A reporter I know went to the night market and figured I would enjoy waking to pictures of lamb testicles, centipedes and silkworms on a stick...Maria is going to love this...
Lamb testicles
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5 comments:
Hmmm, maybe it tasts like chicken??? I'll have one testicle
stick please :)
Great pics, thanks for sharing!
Boy, imagine that: you can have your cojones and eat them too!
I get a very uncomfortable -almost painful- feeling looking at the first pic... :)
The second looks like something I killed with my chancleta this morning. I flushed it down the toilet, but maybe I should have dipped it en el cafe...
The "reporter you know" is very thoughtful to think that you would enjoy waking to these pictures....
that says something... I don't know what.... but, it definitely says something...
Carrie, nice to have and keep good ol' reporter amigos, but honey, those pictures look like...well, what can I say? Just imagining I can certainly kill one of those either with a chancleta or a very appropiate Raid...
Not my favorites
Sorry
:(
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