For some reason I’ve been getting uncomfortable during her on-the-street segments during NBC’s coverage of this year’s Olympics. In her last piece, she prowled about the streets of Beijing in Wrangler-looking jeans and a tucked in man-blouse looking for really gross cuisine. She was served cow stomach in a hotpot and snacked on scorpion on a stick from a street vendor. She’s gross. That’s gross. Gross.
This morning, I woke up a bit early to catch the USA men’s basketball “Redeem Team” face off against pseudo-rival Greece. Prior to tip-off, NBC aired a teaser for a Mary Carillo/Yao Ming one-on-one interview. The clip went something like this:
Mary Carillo: So, you’ve become something of an icon here in China…
Yao Ming: Like a panda?
MC: Well, people constantly want to see you, to touch you…
YM: (*giggling bashfully*) To touch me?
I’m still not sure whether I dreamed this, but the whole thing was surreal and in some strange way… homoerotic.
3 comments:
Ming looks like a glorious peasent...the photo is hoboerotic
The picture is really just Yao sticking his head through a hole a fence with a painting on it.
i really love that shot of Mao. it's the shot that says "man, those laptop commercials i shot with Vern Troyer sure didn't lift my spirits like i thought they wood. Now i'll never get a movie option"
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