*Okay, what gives with the chair-biting? Erotic dancing always makes sense and a chair-biting stunt might make sense in a strong-man act, but where was the entertainment pay-off in combining these?
*When Americans get a grip on an ethnic practice like belly-dancing, it's always transformed into, like, a virtuoso gymnastics performance from Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
*Somebody said recently that when the Chinese dominate the world they're gonna be really hung-up on the spiritual authenticity of Western mysticism.
