Kangaroo Mama & the Boy Scout

An excerpt from the China chapter of Kangaroo Mama the Boy Scout Tom and I have never compared notes on exactly what thoughts were coursing through our individual heads during our anxiety filled night in Chengdu but I remember quite clearly that I was convinced that any second the local vice squad was going to come storming through the door of our hotel room and mete out the Chinese government s standard punishment whenever two men were identified as being homosexual Chain them to a ramshackle pagoda on the outskirts of some small village in a distant province slather their bodies with fresh goat blood and send in a pack of freakishly skinny half starved dogs to have their way with the errant ho hos