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“This redbone mishmash has me forgetting the slushy confines of winter in the Twins. This morning I almost left my coffee behind. I spoke to
Life is a strange strange thing and it’s hard to sometimes stay rooted in place and believe that all of this, and you, and me,
Even this season will go by too quickly. Have we gone sledding enough? Why haven’t we hit up the frozen lakes with our skates yet?
Got this new day job. I dress up real nice most days, sit in a cubicle like I swore I never would. and. stare …
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
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
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 think I may have missed the chance to do so this year, because I was too busy to spend the proper amount of time
Ok now I am going to get into some hater shit. I watched an old Katt Williams special last night and he was talking about
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.
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
Got this slick new Tumblr Blog that is fun to play with and fun to post on. It’s actually much easier than this blog, because
I have been tearing through books recently, due to my snazzy iPad Mini. I did a review a couple weeks ago, and I like that
Shame is best left chained to a wall in the basement of an old lighthouse, and occasionally sung to. Arias only. Disfigured disfiguring a weight
I’ve kept this blog since 2008 and it was and still is a source of great catharsis for me. It is not a CV and
Sometimes I can’t sleep at night, I toss and turn, alarm bells and laughter going off in the street. Honking cars in my dreams. I
It is never too late to send love out to your people. It is never too late to reply to a letter. It is never
“When you think about the worst that could happen, you should resist this temptation to make yourself the centre of the world. Turn away from
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 things I’ve seen in life will make you gasp in surprise like a pod of dolphins dancing in the ocean at sunrise preventing my demise a
Recently we’ve been treated to a few events that have brought out the reactions of Chinese netizens across the spectrum of opinion, from the reform-minded
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
It’s amazing how winter in most Chinese cities cancels out the sun. The skies seem to turn gray across the board, from Jiangxi to Sichuan and
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
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
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
You can catch me on the Third Ring Road, zipping down the sideline on my Bad. Moduh. Scooduh. I’m on there enough to have found
I’m going to switch gears and talk about my own country for a second here. Hitting out at China is actually too easy. There are
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
I am deeply ashamed that I linked that NYT article. If you read it (Hi Mom!) then you noticed how the voice was decidedly not
I spent a full year under the harsh lights of Ctrip’s corporate glare and I wrote a lot of stuff for them. It seemed like
Raglitmag is a webzine of short stories that you can check out on your E-reader as a pdf. They pay pretty well for a rag
I worry about my writing a lot. Its the only thing i can claim as my own and its probably my only legit ticket out
All last night i pooped out water and wandered between dream states with these lines from J-Dilla’s Jungle Love going through my head over and
Once again, i have neglected my own personal blog in favor of other “cooler” spots that either pay me or raise my exposure level up
I read Shazad’s writings on Pakistan and the Taliban for years. Every single story of his informed me as to the real, on the ground
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
When it comes to blogging and just writing in general, its important to get your groove on. For a while there I was writing wak
but i’m surfin instead. The other day my man Charlie got the China Blues, you know, when it dawns on you that all of the
And when I was in Chengdu a few weeks a go I told my shifu Li Cuan about it and he made me pound on
Man everywhere i look the oppression is just getting deeper and deeper — at least when I peep the news. there is China doing all
Some new ish here for everybody to check out and pass around the campfire: Travel videos for Ctrip.com … these are the first two and
I made a very big mistake and assumed that I could re-new Dorian’s visa in Germany. His visa expired while we were in Germany for
Access Divine Access Divine Access Divine God is Everywhere Just have to open your eyes Look Inside You’ll be so surprised Love is Everywhere Little
I can only remember a few, but my mind swims with them in the hours before i rise and after the alarm has already been
I’ve been up and down the “horse and tea trade route” a few times. basically the road from Chengdu south to Bangkok, as far as
This is a track i tend to listen to from time to time that is Stinky-related. Corny?
Me and Stinkumz got birthdays today. I turn 33 he turns 9 months. I was just telling my pops how he says DaDa now about
Here is a post for ChinaTravel.net about a group of (actually an individual named Joe) filmmakers who are doing some interesting work with time-lapse and
I got a new story up, a lil something about a big boss I met back in the day called: Boss Sung’s Wife. I met
Bean made homemade hotpot two days ago and the last of it just got slurped up … I won’t tell you what’s happening now in
If you have not noticed, I have a few Fiction tales up. I won’t be posting a bunch of tales there, just a couple to
One my oldest brain patnas in the world, Tshisuaka aka aka aka has got some ish going on at CitizenMinneapolis.com This brother is a poet
Hi Everybody, welcome to my new site. Its a little stark compared to my fluffy old Chachin Aint Easy, but hey. things change don’t they.
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
Digital Silk Road From: plus8star, 1 week ago Digital Silk Road View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: japan korea) Presentation done at OpenWebAsia
First off … looks like the fervor might be dying down. we shall see. Does anyone else see the parallels between the Games and the
sites that have been blocked since i have lived here, wikipedia and bbc, are now accessible to the average wang and yours truly.
I convince myself I am Turkish by wolfing down doener kebabs and smoking shisha. I have spent the past few days running every day and
I know some of these pics are sideways .. i apologize but there is nothing i can do about it. these kids are worried about
reading foucalt’s pendulum has been a three month odyssey through umberto eco’s dream library. i finally fell into the pace of the book, now, near
Every morning i enjoy myself ritually with the bread slicer. I love the buzz and smell of good bread being prepared for my rumblin gullet.
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