I'm without a computer in Shanghai.  I just got back from a trip to 横沙岛, a small island just north of Shanghai.  I had this great encounter with the very friendly local 派出所 staff over not bringing my passport, an encounter which involved smoking my first cigarette (to placate the station chief), playing table-tennis with a former aspirant to the Chinese national badminton team in their third floor gym, then being driven to the 渡家村 resort in a police pick-up at ten at night.  I also had dinner with a local family whose daughter was home on vacation from  her college in the southern section of Shanghai, some college with the word 干部 ("cadre") in the name.  They were very generous with sugar cane, beer and these little blue crabs; the mother: "they're hard to eat," and the daughter: "I don't like them that much."

Nevertheless, the point of the post is to point out that <a href="http://www.ziboy.com/">Ziboy</a> has posted a bunch of mosh-pit photos (he's done mosh-pits before, I think it's a theme), which I'm guessing are from the Beijing Midi Music Festival, that <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/kaizor/20062.html" title="Three shows in two days!">Kaiser played at</a>.

--And, that's OK Tennessee, <a href="http://www.soapboxjams.com/china/archive/000338.html" title="Ode to a nearly perfect day">the post</a> was as good as pictures.