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- Discussing the Fire Rabbit Moon
- Storytime with Sascha: Scratchel
- Discussion: Year of the Wood Dragon
- Storytime with Sascha: Chicken Sacrifice
- Storytime with Sascha: Cold Noodles
- Storytime with Sascha: Du Juan
- Water Rabbit Days
- Southside Kickball
- Storytime with Sascha: Lady in the Red Cloak
- Tettegouche Lodge Summer 2023
- Swirl
- The 2020 I-35W Protest and the Semi
- I know why the lone sparrow chirps
- Memory & Nostalgia #4: Finding Lost Treasures
- Deep Yin
- Storytime with Sascha: Hobo Cove Part II
- Storytime with Sascha: Hobo Cove Part I
- Dreams
- Memory & Nostalgia #5: The Demons in My Head
- A Kinda-Sufi meets a Stoic
- Photo Gallery: Eurotrip 2022
- Memory and Nostalgia #3: Death and Regret
- River Lake People #2 - Is we done yet?
- Storytime with Sascha: Rara Gyata
- Craft Talk: Writers Groups
- Story: The Imam Who Sang
- Memory and Nostalgia #2: Leavetaking
- A few days in Cali
- The semicolon
- River Lake People #1 - Origins
- Memory and Nostalgia #1
- Chengdu: Mind
- The Fat Man's Belly
- The Night Everything Changed: UFC Japan
- Fan Jianchuan’s Obsession
- Future’s So Bright
- Modern martial arts: Ain’t that a kick in the head
- Driftless Manifesto
- Linsey Williams, Minnesota MMA fighter, bends but won't break
- The Sacred Grain of the Northwoods
- Know Before You Go: The Tea Horse Road
- The shockingly normal life of one Twin Cities prostitute
- Why Kung Fu Masters Refuse to Teach
- Chengdu: Body
- Chengdu: Spirit
- Flower Town
- Ello
- Violence in America
- Nobody Speak, Nobody Get Choked
- In the heat of the night
- Winter
- Semiotics and Screenface
- The Sliver of a Moon
- The Products I got off of Kickstarter: A Long Review
- The Boys and Minnesota
- It's April Again (Redux)
- this space shall change
- It's April Again
- Del drops a Soundcloud album
- Telling my kids about Winter
- Chongqing's Cheating Heart
- Juvenile
- Flashlights in the Dark
- Stay the course
- Tumblr Aint Just for Porn
- I wanna move to Cheung Chau Island
- Book Review: Hawkins, Sagan, Zinn and Thompson
- Book Reviews: Hitler, Stalin, Assange and Wall Street
- Free
- Shame, the movie, and how Porn is killing the World Soul
- Last time I was in Shanghai
- Sticky Post: About this Blog
- The Pensioners are back
- Caixin is awesome, but the sun is still gonna blow up someday
- We be sharing poetry about Chengdu.
- Sinocentrism
- Li Cheng Peng Book Signing in Chengdu
- Nothing to See Here
- Same Work, Same Pay
- like a chicken grease chord
- Was the Wen Jiabao Story a Leak?
- Anren Jianchuan Museum Cluster
- KTVs and Ketamine
- Insomnia
- An Excellent Argument for Re-election
- Do you remember?
- Adrift during the Holiday
- Resist the Worst
- Gibbering again
- These are my last words
- The Struggle for Hong Kong
- Before I die
- The Dreamer and the Rebel
- Sovereignty
- Pragmatic above all things
- Chen Guang Cheng in Limbo ...
- On the run in China: Chen Guangcheng escapes!
- Foreign Men, Represent
- Calcified Culture, or Unique Characters?
- The sins of the father ...
- Bo Xilai's Dream
- China watchers are high
- Foreign Tax not about Foreigners
- Silk Roads and Great Walls
- The Empire Strikes Back
- Don't wink at me
- Speaking of rumors ...
- The Next Generation in Gong Fu Awesomeness
- A different take on the Wang-Bo Scandal
- Mother's milk under attack!
- Escaping the China Winter
- That cess in yer chest
- A many headed troll at the helm
- A True Belief
- China-US Cold War and what we can do about it
- Merry Christmas from the Family
- Yining in Xinjiang Province bans beards and burkas
- Dying Cultures
- Ode to Third Ring Road
- Blinded by the Web
- Buddhism in China
- Imprisoned
- Excerpts from an Interview with Luo Fahui
- Agents of Conformity
- Ai Wei Wei, prepare for martyrdom
- There might still be blood ....
- There will be blood
- Many faces
- Up for Grabs
- Support Broke Writers
- For those of you with lil ones:
- Daddy bought gold o.O
- The Future is now
- A question of existence
- Scattered Fam
- Raihan was right
- Giving notice
- Poo issues
- Recent news and other tidbits
- Laoba and Dorian
- Another Son
- Syed Saleem Shazad
- A few days in Sanya
- Pros and Cons
- Fast, Cheap or Good: You can only have Two
- Into a groove
- An anti-establishment radical caught in a corporate setting
- What the Wenchuan Quake makes me think of
- Why I came to China ...
- I should be armchair travelin'
- My wrist hurts
- New China Travel Video: 48 Hours in Shanghai
- /facepalm
- Ctrip.com Youtube Travel Video Channel -- Get Some!
- Horse & Tea Trade Route
- Dorian's First Birthday
- Chinese Winters Suck
- Visa Issues
- Access Divine
- Christmas in Heidelberg
- The Beijing Consensus
- The Assassination of Julian Assange
- Holy Shit I miss Sichuan
- One Second Encounters
- Horses and Tea and all manner of Roads
- China Travel Articles
- Song I bumped in Nicole’s basement
- me and stinky passed out at the hospital
- Being a Rock Star in China
- Mixed Blood Prince
- Time-Lapse Video in China
- Anti-Japan Protests Rock Chengdu
- Dreamin bout Portland
- Big Bosses
- Better Axe Somebody
- Just in Case My Baby Calls
- New ish has come to Light
- Can't Truss It ..
- Commando Style
- Chinese Baby Products Pose a Danger
- WOW FTW: Gamers Can Save the World
- Class Lines Apparent
- You might wanna ask Somebody
- New Gig
- Oh Lord lets figure it out ….
- Ain't got no Game
- They’re catching on …
- Whatcha Learn
- Dream within a dream
- Little Man
- A Full Month: Smooches and Poo
- From Now On
- Beginning to feel the 安
- Bean's Belly
- My man Fu Qiang
- Hafiz is my man
- I can't stop laughing at Western businessmen
- redemption is just one way of saying
- So, what now?
- The Du
- Pig Fat
- Haiti
- Lu Guang's Photography: Pollution in China
- The Ancients said:
- "Don't be Evil" -- Tell that to Wall Street
- Thinking about my brothers
- Google unlocks the vault!!!!
- Google fed up with China
- China reacts to Avatar the Movie
- Crib finalized
- Chengdu Living
- A new leaf
- No surprises anymore
- The American Dream and the Written Word
- Good Morning
- Free to Post
- to all the beauty in your life
- GUA
- Farts in the wind
- They roundin up Hobos!
- this could have been anyone of us
- i got brothers
- This shit really happens
- Sigh
- My Rainy Poem
- Well well well
- A Photo Project and a Photographer's ish:
- Chirp Out Day
- The Wagon Part Deux
- The Wagon
- A new day rising?
- That Kauai story for the Oregonian
- The Weed Game
- Bumpin Raekwon & Drinking Dew
- now that thats out of the way
- last night with a frozen bottle
- My Oasis
- Wine
- off work early
- Workin at Pok Pok
- She was my affair with Portland
- Obama in Africa
- Rape is the Consort of War
- Moses in the NYT
- When i wake up i think to myself:
- Xinjiang protests continue
- Violence in Xinjiang
- What it is
- US Soldiers Dissenting
- Tea Tasting last Sunday
- Politics and asteroids
- What sammy said last night
- I like that "feelin it" style
- Tea with Amy
- Two books that I urge you to read:
- Summer in Portland
- The Hand of Death is no match for a Sweaty Human
- Chillin at the Shiraz in Shanghai
- Mengding Mountain Tea
- A long hiatus makes for a rambling post
- Three Mountain Teas
- Work is the Enemy of Doubt
- The Du
- Chinese girls are silly
- Shanghai
- Back in China
- Vision of a Man
- Happy Easter ya'll
- Reconciliation
- CALLING OUT TO ALL MY PEOPLE
- If Babylon falls in my lifetime
- the Cali sun
- I know why women trip
- Why I don't write for Antiwar.com anymore
- throw a stone or move
- The Sack of Long Beach
- watch out now
- me and the devil sluggin it out
- whats goin down
- I got emeralds in my cup
- I take my music whereever I go
- I remember playin BB guns
- Originality
- Speaking of holograms
- The Universe is a Hologram
- Remember the Neocons!
- In Defense of Piracy
- Tell it like it is
- I can't help it
- Dai Shi Men gong fu will never die
- The 72 down 82nd
- Crisis of Credit
- leaving Mipples
- I got out of the house
- Every step of the way
- i hear voices
- balance in the force
- what a pleasant morning
- me and my cat gimpy
- my achin back
- i might as well drop it
- now its really on
- its on
- Some travel stories for that ass
- So whats been goin on
- China's Charter 08
- the devil strikes back
- I have memories of a Golden Age
- how my people do
- Peep This
- Laffs
- The Whipping Boy
- Democracy in China
- The Bailout ...
- to my Chinese peoples
- Where does all the TARP go?
- Broke Fat White People
- Strippers
- The Phantom Menace
- Big Business in the Prison System
- One Second Encounters
- Irvine, CA
- El Lay
- PEEP THIS!!
- Peep This
- to the twang of a slow guitar
- Pirates with no Boat
- its my birfday
- We love the Bills
- Universal Health Care?
- What is this really about
- God Bless America
- Digital Silk Road
- A message from Progress
- They Still Don't Get It
- A Perfect Majority
- Bumpin it in China
- Asia-Europe Meeting
- Hipsters vs. Superdorks
- I reiterate
- The Last Debate
- China vs. Portland
- Ma Shan acts like a Child!
- What some people find solace in
- droppin the hammer on McCain
- Opportunities
- A nation of loners
- What Germans are saying
- What we deserve
- Live and Let Die?
- Its all bad; its all good
- Village People in the Twilight Zone
- If you're going to San Francisco
- Back in the US of A
- Go Longhair!
- The Coming Storm in Xinjiang
- Picture me Laughin
- Old News and Forgiving Old Friends
- Serendipity
- Eli Sweet, An American Rapper in Chengdu
- peep this
- The Aftermath
- Back in the Du part Du
- Obama's Acceptance Speech in Denver
- MY ass. And Don King in the Dirty Du ...
- Gimpy: from lil rat to man of the house
- My Brother and Little Man
- My sister in Kosovo for a wedding
- A Few China Stories
- The Security Establishment
- Dont Believe the Hype
- Penultimate Day: A couple pics
- Day 15 - Ending with a Bang
- Day ?? - Big Day for team finals
- We Need Your Help
- Patriotism and Nationalism
- Rage against the dying of the light
- And of course: Dashed Hopes
- Days 9, 10 and 11 ... The Hustle Eclipsed
- And of course: the Man Fish
- Days 7, 8 and going on 9 ... Sleep Deprived
- Dirty Spaniards
- Day 6 - The Calm Before the Storm
- Day 5 - I Love China
- Day 4 - Chaos and Order
- Day 3 - Dank and Dreary ... USA whoops China in B-Ball
- Day 2 - The Hustleman
- Day 1 - Opening Ceremony Ticket Scam
- Yo
- Trolls.
- Some ill from the Du
- Hu Jintao Steps Up
- Moral Authority?
- What did you think was gonna happen?
- One Last Roast
- Down in Kokomo
- The good news is
- busy day
- My Worm Ridden Hound named "Dog"
- caterpillar fever
- Friedmann has found his issue
- Feelin for Liu Xiang and Obama
- Chicken Grease
- We exist
- Hey Ya'll
- A Smoggy day in Beijing
- Picture me Laughing
- Aint Nothing Changed
- When things die
- Clean Energy
- Bombs in Kunming
- My brother can get you out the clink
- Which sky will it be?
- propagandja
- like i said, communicate
- No Fun Olympics
- Beijing 2008
- Impeach Bush
- In Memory of Aintwortha, the Original Fleabag.
- We have seen this before, and its always sinister
- It can't happen here, can it?
- Sucked in
- Indocrination II
- Laughs
- The death of traditions
- Surprise! Beijing is a polluted city!
- My Neighbors
- America the Ridiculous, America the Glorious
- Patterns of Development in China
- Three God's Village and The Hakka - lil Update
- Hakka in Sichuan
- The elephant in my bathroom
- perhaps ... perhaps ...
- 2008 Olympics: For Chinese only!
- Read This
- Blogger up in China!
- it just keeps gettin thicker
- The Gov's Side of the Story
- Might as well face it
- China has no orphans
- She's just a young girl ...
- Wandering Blind
- Will Autumn Ever Come?
- The Min River
- Some mo' Sichuan Hua
- Mainstream
- I've changed my mind
- War is Pure Sin
- You can get with this, or you can get with that
- The Case of Wang Shi
- ....
- serendipity
- I peer down from the depths of crackerdom
- what does it take
- aftershocks
- some pics
- Luo Shui
- It aint funny
- Kids Day
- my people
- Addendum
- Test Runs for the Big Show
- Tapfere Leute
- Pictures of Qing Cheng Mountain
- False Alarms and Party Poopers
- Woe unto the Enemies of the State
- gotta ease back
- mom i can't see your hand
- A Theory of Relativity
- Around Qing Cheng ...
- China handles business
- To Mianyang
- I'll make ya famous
- Chillin in Flower Village
- Chengdu Earthquake day after
- "Even if there is only a sliver of hope ..."
- Spent last night with my People
- Charlie's Story: Surviving the Sichuan Earthquake
- We felt it comin ...
- A shaky night
- No Sleep tonight
- updates on Chengdu earthquake: its getting worse
- updates on Chengdu earthquake: Deyang has at least five schools collapse
- Chengdu TV on earthquake
- rumors of more earthquakes coming
- More Updates for Chengdu Earthquake
- chengdu earthquake gets worse
- updates on Chengdu earthquake
- yo
- earthquake hits the DU!
- love atcha
- I, like God, do not play at dice ...
- Chinese activism
- Ba bu Ba Si
- holla at me
- Xenophobia
- who's the cracker?
- The Illusion of Coincidence...
- Tell that b*tch to chill!
- The Word
- On Brainwashing
- HK Torch Relay II
- HK Torch Relay
- Sleeveless Tendencies
- Doublespeak and Bullscat
- noone can f*ck with my tribe
- all the ladies in the world
- good news
- Chillin in the Sultan
- God loves the Funk
- Rationalism is Bleak
- crackers
- Anger
- who is the more foolish?
- Its goin down
- Chongqing: Luan jiu Luan!
- Benedict Wang?
- i'm so slick
- in case you aint heard II
- Basic Conversation with a Chengdu Cabbie
- in case you aint heard
- all too short, the distance mist travels ...
- The tongue of the toad cannot reach the wings of the dove
- the sad truth for tibetans and uighers
- Kun Shan
- Flode aka Superboy aka Fat Kim aka aka aka
- Superboy-FMS Style
- Superboy
- what are they thinkin?
- i must say
- the pot boils over
- also my people ...
- my people
- we are all whores
- holla
- Zobel
- hong kong feet
- the young tibetan diaspora
- faded
- Aint nothin special bout me
- my revolution
- pear blossoms and rapeseed
- orange seeds in the ashtray
- you've lost your smile
- gettin paid
- the spikeman mule
- China censors
- The diaspora
- Qiangba Puncog must hang
- Hold a Fist Up for Tibet
- gou re de
- childhood trauma
- late bloomers
- Greasy Hair
- When compatriots meet
- tea baggins
- Back in The Du
- The Ends Meet
- its a high price to pay
- The Delicious Slide
- Laowai tai duo
- why do i like him
- chachin aint easy
- Dali Town
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- me and sammy at the speakeasy last night
- The devil came down to Clifden ...
- mountain pics
- my tummy hurts
- grumble grumble
- river lake people
- in the mountains
- naturally
- i am that i am
- decompression
- to A'Dam
- Gettin Fat in Deutschland
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