It’s April Again
Today I smoked a joint and walked around the Gulou area, and thought about many things. People everywhere, great clumps of pollen swirling in a
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Today I smoked a joint and walked around the Gulou area, and thought about many things. People everywhere, great clumps of pollen swirling in a
I have to admit, I haven’t read a single story about foreign journalists with China visa problems. I found them all to smack of the
This article here, Urban Platforms in a Policy Pressure Cooker, is just one example of Caixin Online’s excellent reporting on China’s political and economic landscape. The
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
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
Imagine a four-headed know it all troll with a broad streak of arrogance at the helm of the Gray Pearl in the midst of the
Tom from Seeing Red in China pointed out some China Quarterly essays and one of them is the inspiration for this essay … Few of
Can it be denied that the US is actively engaging China’s border nations in an attempt to contain and control China? It seems pretty clear
I often wondered if generations before us have felt this same sense of impending doom that our epoch currently feels. I don’t wonder about it
Liao Yiwu is a Chengdu native and he recently escaped over to Berlin via the Horse and Tea Trade Route pathways of southern China. Reading
This is a companion piece to ChengduLiving’s Portrait of a Chengdu Artist: Luo Fa Hui. Here I put together some excerpts from an interview back
Today I read Murong Xuecun’s speech given in Oslo. The things he described in his speech are clearly happening all around us and I have
It’s hard to watch a good man go down, but that is exactly what I find myself doing everyday now since Ai Wei Wei’s battle
There are basically two camps in the world “battling it out” while the rest of the masses shift and moan and watch it all go
I came across some interesting thoughts the least couple of days. Although I don’t write about current affairs nearly as much as I used to,
Rumor has it that Tom Waits once said this to Jim Jarmusch over whiskey and pop tarts, but it could have been Ben Franklin. I
Let’s take a look at the countries that refused to attend the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony: Afghanistan, Algeria, Cuba, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Russia, Kazakhstan,
I want a show of hands: How many people have kept doing it after the condom broke? How many people out there believe that Julian
This has popped up three times in the past 5 days, so I have to drop it. I watched this speech here by Jane McGonigal
In this NYT story, the benfit of mushrooms is being researched by scientists and medical practitioners, one of which called it, “existential medicine.”
Last night for the first time that I can remember, someone asked me what I was dreaming about in my dream. I was so taken
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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