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Lin Changzhi: Back with more Q goodnessPosted by Joel Martinsen, December 20, 2005 9:25 AM
![]() Long-winded, short-tempered Lin Changzhi, spit on by all he meets. Not right in the head, or really crazy. We're all two-bit thugs. Lin Changzhi, whom we saw last year getting shot down for daring to play with the classics, is back with a new book about 20-somethings aimed squarely at middle-school students. Friends (6人行), like the TV show, tells the story of six eccentric people living together and the interaction of their personalities. In this case, it's six recently graduated men who share an apartment to save on rent. Typical hijinks ensue: chasing girls, playing practical jokes on each other, and reimagining popular movies like Not One Less and World Without Thieves as twisted, Stephen Chow-style slapstick comedies. The book is written in the form of diary entries - each of the six gets to write in his own style. It's been done before, but since Lin writes in a breezy style peppered with slang and netspeak, what we have is essentially six blogs bound together. ![]() Fine art by Lin Changzhi. Appropriately, then, Lin Changzhi has a blog - on Sina, no less (it might be more appropriate in the future to note when a celebrity doesn't have a blog on Sina). Lin's blog runs excerpts from Friends, as well as crude drawings that seem to have been done in Microsoft Paint. Representative of the humor on his blog and in his book, here is his rendition of a really hot straw hat. Links and Sources
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