Joaque Hidalgo, grand puba of the Nike brand group shedding a year and chopping some onions for our cook-off contest. Is their anything this man can’t to?!?!?

Jess, barefoot and enegized, presenting trends and cool shit for Nike Brand leadership in pdx!!

Limited edition for the Lebron James “more than a game” movie promotion – silver and svsm green – they look great and sound awesome. Thanks Jackie!

At toys R us in beaverton and it’s awesome – huge, so many good stuffs and a whole aisle dedicated to the smurfs. How many can you name? Was that one smurf gay? Crazy childhood times…

While strolling through Peoples Park on a mild Sunday afternoon we encountered a large crowd gathering – not your typical English corner kids or gambling drunks – but masses of people reading various flyers posted in the square. They were in chinese but clearly describing a person (height, weight, age). At first we thought they were people looking for lost people but quickly caught on to game. They were personal ads about single people – some young, some old, with and without pictures. They were clustered into groups (they even had a section for foreigners) and if you were interested in an ad, you met with the boss (matchmaker?) and she had more info, pictures, etc. (as this photo shows). Not entirely insane but on of those things we had never seen before – but with 1.4b people, it’s gotta be a good business.

We finally found a place in shanghai to kick our feet up, drink some tea and peruse some magazines. It’s underground in a subway station – a little damp and the tea tastes “odd” – and the magazines are mostly in Chinese – but it’s a start!