The Beijinger Blog - Adriane Quinlan

Pizza Buffet – Episode 11: Brushes with Death

thebeijinger — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:30:41 +0800

The Pizza buffettes are back with another episode of Pizza Buffet. This week they're joined by special guest Austin Ramzy. Adriane Quinlan (the World-Weary Sleuth) offers the following by way of introduction to this week's episode:

Pizza Buffet – What do you do in Beijing that you would not do at home?

thebeijinger — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:30:49 +0800

The Pizza Buffet girls went partying last weekend and they took their microphone with them. Adriane Quinlan (the World-Weary Sleuth) offers the following by way of introduction to this week's episode of Pizza Buffet:

Pizza Buffet

thebeijinger — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:30:26 +0800

We've run into some technical difficulties getting the Beijinger Podcast online today, and while we work on fixing the problems, we're happy to recommend that latest episode of Pizza Buffet to tbjblog readers.

In the future, we'll be linking to new episodes of Pizza Buffet as they become available. Adriane Quinlan (the World-Weary Sleuth) offers the following by way of introduction to the podcast:

No Pillow Fighting in Beijing

thebeijinger — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:30:45 +0800

International Pillow Fight Day, a three-year-old event which originated in the US and has since spread to cities as far flung as Budapest, Sydney, and last year for the first time, Shanghai, is what it sounds like – a random meet-up of hundreds (or thousands) bearing pillows for a five-minute sploff with total strangers. How cute.

This year was Beijing's first attempt to join in the fun. But at 3.03 under the huge screen that covers the plaza of The Place at Guanghua Lu, who showed up? Not only a hundred-odd pillow fighters, ready for battle, but also upwards of 60 policemen who alighted from five vans, two cop cars, and an Escalade. They were quick to break up one of the most innocent gatherings imaginable.