by liberal japonicus
I don’t know about y’all, but I’ve been pounded into silence by the torrent of news, goverment shutdown, Brexit, tsunami. It is enough to turn me into a cat picture person.
However, I felt like I needed to post an end of the year post, so there was this story, about an unlikely friendship that some of you may have seen
https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2018/12/14/lin-wang-charles-barkley
which is also an NPR podcast that I caught later, which has recordings of the quoted telephone conversations that make the story even better
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/12/17/charles-barkley-lin-wang
(I love Charles Barkley’s North Alabama pronunciation of ‘bothering’ and the twists of the English of Lin Wang’s father (My dad held on to his Hawaiian pidgin till the end, so strong that every girlfriend I ever had was baffled by it on first encounter.))
An overly microscopic view below the fold.