No better way, to start the year, than with a Big Pink Snake! Happy Year of the Snake to everybody. May this new year bring you luck, babes, money and planets full of beer. Last night I was with my wife at her dad’s place here in Beijing, eating far too much food and watching the massive CCTV new-year TV festival that everybody loves to hate. And it was good again, they had a bloody aircraft carrier in the show, and a space ship! No kidding, this is China, everything is possible…

Well, the Snake is on. Let it be a good year.