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Yes it probably is but I’m going to push on anyway because it’s driving me crazy. I’m talking about the horrible earthquake in China that has killed twelve thousand so far and by that I mean those are confirmed bodies with another twenty-nine thousand thought missing. The numbers are staggering and the tragedy is unthinkable but my mind keeps getting snagged on a minor point in most of the news reports of the story.

It’s the fact that the lazy prick news people refuse to take the time to call the area by its correct and hard to pronounce name. Instead they refer to it as the South Central China region, area, or whatever they can as to not have to try and pronounce Mianyang. So they keep saying South Central which in the brain of stupidtom brings up images of South Central Los Angeles because I have completely embraced the Hip Hop Lifestyle.

Then, rather than treating this tragedy with the reverence that it deserves, my brain immediately go for the Broods and Clips gang plobrems. Instead of relating to this story as I should my inner narrative turns into Charlie Chan movies from the nineteen thirties and forties that I used to watch on Sunday mornings as a kid. The Sidney Toler Charlie Chan dominated all others by the way in case you were wondering. This is not to be confused with the fine cartoon from my youth The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan.

If I were of Chinese dissent I might be equally offended by all of that crap but then again you don’t see me out protesting Family Guy, I’m just a fan. I go now.