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The Sliver of a Moon

A waxing crescent above Lake of the Isles and the sky drifts towards darkness, crimson pink purple and orange on one side, the first stars

The Boys and Minnesota

The reason we moved back to the US is beginning to unfold, as spring takes hold, and the boys behold the burgeoning beauty of a

It’s April Again (Redux)

I spent most of last year refusing to look at this blog, while it festered away in purgatory, punished for being a low priority. For

Juvenile

A long long time ago, a girl told me to keep my voice. That was back in January of 2008, when I was writing this.

Stay the course

I recently wrote a post about my Chengdu Compound, and the comments on the post, and on Reddit, reflect two things, in general: 1) Good

like a chicken grease chord

Doing research for this project brought a picture to my mind of me in a field of yellow flowers with a long butterfly net chasing

Adrift during the Holiday

I find myself sleeping, tweeting, taking notes. Talking to people I don’t know. Coffee and cigarettes. And carrying my son around on my shoulders so

Gibbering again

My vision of myself rarely coincides with the vision others have of me. When people think highly of me, I hear the sniveling thief gibber

The Struggle for Hong Kong

Here in Chengdu, people have been asking me: “Hey, did you hear what they did in Hong Kong? They stood up to the government.” There

Before I die

Factories will have no workers, just a few people making sure the machines are well-oiled Doctors will never touch a knife, only input the data

The Dreamer and the Rebel

When I look at my sons, I feel as if the complexities of my soul have been sundered into two separate facets and placed within

Pragmatic above all things

I know a girl named Color who stopped me on the street one day and said, I am different from every other Chinese girl out

Silk Roads and Great Walls

What we today call the Chongqing Model and the Guangdong Model are just new names for an ancient struggle. Since the first brick was laid

That cess in yer chest

Tell me how to keep the smile on my face when I start every morning hacking like an old revolutionary until lung butter splatters the

Merry Christmas from the Family

Here are some recent pics of my two boys, Stinky and Plumpy. For family and friends 😉 Love, Sascha Yushi Dorian Damian  

The Future is now

While avoiding the drudge work at Ctrip, I stumbled across the theory of neoteny in evolution. Neoteny is when infant features appear in adults ie

Scattered Fam

So we’re on the eternal search for “the Spot” that will allow me to sip tea and write best sellers while bean makes big big

Whatcha Learn

You know my family always used to make fun of my dad cuz he had like one or two homies. and even those guys he

From Now On

Dorian turns two weeks in a little less than an hour. The following is an altered message I wrote to a friend and is the

Beginning to feel the 安

安 means peace and is represented by a woman under a roof. I always figured this character was a bit patriarchal … but now that

redemption is just one way of saying

my job is to pull you back from the brink of darknessprotect you from the prince of shadowsshow you the flower in all seasonskeep you

This shit really happens

In the Sanctuary in Oakland with my main men Big Scott and Johnny Frizzle. Today we tore the house up to try and find my

Well well well

What Providence, What Divine Intelligence … so i am leaving the Wagon today and headed to a different brighter spot up the road a bit.

If Babylon falls in my lifetime

Nicole be twitterin with Questlove these days cuz he is in P-town freezin his ass off … i mean it aint that cold up here

I take my music whereever I go

because I’m just so in love with it. I beatbox walkin down the block a lot and sing in easy soul rhymes. My gait loses

Every step of the way

I realized something very profound this morning and i am going to try and explain as best i can. it began when i thought about

Opportunities

I trust myself now more than ever. I thought to myself the death of Wall Street could only be a boon for me and mine.

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