This blog is on vacation.
Thanks everyone for your lovely notes. Hugs all.
My girl is switching jobs, and she's got a week off in the switch. So we're on vacation down on Hainan Island near Hong Kong. She keeps saying, "It's no Thailand," but I'm enjoying the tropical weather and strange fruit.
Two days in and we're already sunburnt lobster red. We spun the...
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Thanks everyone for your lovely notes. Hugs all.
My girl is switching jobs, and she's got a week off in the switch. So we're on vacation down on Hainan Island near Hong Kong. She keeps saying, "It's no Thailand," but I'm enjoying the tropical weather and strange fruit.
Two days in and we're already sunburnt lobster red. We spun the...
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"Just before dying, I had a dream: I was the subject of a painting that entered Heaven after thousands and thousands of years."
- My Name is Red, Orphan Pamuk
- My Name is Red, Orphan Pamuk
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lamdalamdalamda:
wow. that's an amazing quote...do you read derrida?
rockepidemic:
Very nice, I approve!
Good to hear from you, especially as I have indeed been rocking the insomnia lately.
Good to hear from you, especially as I have indeed been rocking the insomnia lately.
You know that part of American Splendor, where he wakes up suddenly in a sweat, breathing heavy, then the nightmare falls away, and he wipes his brow in relief, sighs and says, "Thank god! I gotta job....I gotta job."
True. Painfully true.
After a month of dicking around - too literally - I got my ass into a fulltime job. "Sucker" I may be, as...
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True. Painfully true.
After a month of dicking around - too literally - I got my ass into a fulltime job. "Sucker" I may be, as...
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opticnerve:
Time to move back to Asia. Sigh.
otoki:
Well, just come on over to MN and i'll pop your cherry 
koue:
Misc
Was reading an article about some fucks who got rich in the New Chinese market. Most don't even know Chinese. One guy made millions manufacturing clothes hangers and selling them on QVC. CLOTHES HANGERS!
I don't get this late-stage globalized capitalist world we live in.
My girlfriend had dinner with a guy who works for a company that makes the ink for money. You can't...
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I don't get this late-stage globalized capitalist world we live in.
My girlfriend had dinner with a guy who works for a company that makes the ink for money. You can't...
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ceraphim2:
wolf's rain is an anime by the same people who did cowboy bebop. its really artistic, and a lot deeper than most animes like bebop was. its very mellow and dreamy, i adore it!
rockepidemic:
Hey man, haven't heard from you in quite awhile! Berlin seems interesting and those photos don't hurt.
Sorry I haven't kept up, I've been obnoxiously busy lately. Hope things are going well for you.
Sorry I haven't kept up, I've been obnoxiously busy lately. Hope things are going well for you.
koue:
Berlin Film Fest
Just another drunken Wednesday.
After a long Korean dinner and hefty amounts of soju in my old university district and some old friends and some new ones, we ventured through the cold to a new lounge bar on land that six years ago was farmland. Step into the cabbage patch and get two for one martinis. The conversation stepped knee-deep in alcohol, white people filled...
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After a long Korean dinner and hefty amounts of soju in my old university district and some old friends and some new ones, we ventured through the cold to a new lounge bar on land that six years ago was farmland. Step into the cabbage patch and get two for one martinis. The conversation stepped knee-deep in alcohol, white people filled...
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lackluster:
velvet underground and sufjan stevens! 
twinkie:
Perhaps I am not lucky enough to find personal success while also remaining in a shell
BACK IN THE PRC
Berlin trip done. Flew back in jetlagged and weary on Thursday morning, propelled myself through the day awake only to see my girl after she got off work, and greeted her with the booty of the first world.
I have to say I was very impressed by Berlin. Cheap (by Western developed country standards), delicious (whether German or Turkish), alcoholic (rolling...
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Berlin trip done. Flew back in jetlagged and weary on Thursday morning, propelled myself through the day awake only to see my girl after she got off work, and greeted her with the booty of the first world.
I have to say I was very impressed by Berlin. Cheap (by Western developed country standards), delicious (whether German or Turkish), alcoholic (rolling...
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tororo:
Following Hattori Hanzo's example, I make these only when commissioned by sexy swordmasters, members of international assassination squads, such as Morgan.
tororo:
Speaking of late night programs...
...the french channel I was watching tonight (it's still night this side of the planet) just broadcasted Li Yang's Blind Shaft, as part of a program about Berlin festival.... I hadn't viewed it before. My first impression: ouch.
...the french channel I was watching tonight (it's still night this side of the planet) just broadcasted Li Yang's Blind Shaft, as part of a program about Berlin festival.... I hadn't viewed it before. My first impression: ouch.
Chinese New Year's is coming to a close. I wrote a drunken rant on the first night about foreigners in Beijing bashing China, which I decided was too incomprehensible to post. Basic content: I'm not saying the China's a perfect country or that the Chinese government is anything but dictatorial. That being said, what the New York Times reports is 10% of the reality of...
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rockepidemic:
Hey, it's good to hear from you! Hopefully Berlin is treating you well.
Thanks for posting those photos, it may seem silly, but I always appreciate getting to have a sense of the experiences like that which I've missed.
Thanks for posting those photos, it may seem silly, but I always appreciate getting to have a sense of the experiences like that which I've missed.
viiolaine:
yay my first message from china!! you rule!! hope to hear from you often!
koue:
Temple Fair at Ditanpark
l_f:
Nice ass!
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[Edited on Feb 01, 2006 10:09AM]
Safely in Beijing, the exile from Hong Kong begins. Happily kicked the winter cold out the door and settled into my girlfriend's warm bed. Pollution keeps the sky all sorts of happy colors: pink, yellow, baby blue.
The train ride up to Beijing - normally 24 and 1/2 hours - ended up being 31 hours long. A rogue winter storm snowed us in somewhere in...
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The train ride up to Beijing - normally 24 and 1/2 hours - ended up being 31 hours long. A rogue winter storm snowed us in somewhere in...
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l_f:
P.S. From where are you two, by the way?
otoki:
Har har.
You're girl's a cutie.
You're girl's a cutie.
You did resist the enchantment of the beach? Did you?
According to a magazine I found on my shelves (Sciences & Voyages, September 1937) Hainan looks like this:
"accessing to the island is uneasy: as the port of Ho-Hao lacks depth for harboring steamers, voyagers need to wait floodtime for boarding the sampans that will leave them ashore...
...however, Ho-Hao is a modern city with avenues, hotels, stores, telephones... a recently build road allows driving around the island and accessing superb points of view."
(translated from French by yours truly, apologies!)
Probably these informations need a little updating.
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