If you weren’t in this weekend you probably missed: the big discussion about the Sandeman Don, drawn in 1928 by George Massiot Brown, and how it was considered the Dracula of Portugal by the Bauhaus designers. My golfing friend Mike…
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Out and about.
Linda and I biked over to the Ingenuity Festival Downtown and then later back to the ‘Mont to go to bed, uh wait, …before that, we also checked out the Taste of Tremont Street Festival during yesterday’s beautiful blue sky…
An Action packed weekend coming up.
We’ve got two events here this week. That’s two more than we usually have. This Thursday it’s our monthly poetry reading. The featured readers will be Carmen Tracey and John Dorsey. And on Saturday night we’ve got the Big Kid…
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Fun show time.
We walked through the hyper industrialized air to the Bin-Tharsukard neighborhood west of the Godonon Beegwang to catch Mitch Niebing’s scrotum and penis puppet show yesterday. The puppeteers stretch, squeeze, pull, roll, jiggle, you name it to their privates transforming…
Just another day in China
July 4th that is. No biggie over here in China. We’re having a ball tho. Been back from the great wall and got a nice room in the big peoples part of Beijing. But I know y’all we’re enjoying the…
The Great Leap Foward
Spongepad Makes The Great Leap Foward Originally uploaded by lake2112 Well not really. We went to the Great Wall yesterday and I have to admit that I hit the wall so to speak. It’s of course very impressive but Linda…
It wasn’t what I expected
The Chinese menu in my new camcorder that I bought here in Beijing much to my relief uses latin characters and not Chinese characters. However there are items on the menu that I’ve never seen on other American market camcorders…
What would President Nixon do?
Nick writes: If you have a chance to visit the forbidden city, do yourself a favor and take the “underground forbidden city tour”. From what I hear, you get to see Mao’s testicles preserved in Du Kang. Also, I believe…
Out on the town in Beijing.
Here we are in the lobby of our hotel earlier this evening. We were on our way to the new Applebee’s around the block on Quagtulund Blvd. We both ordered burgers and washed them down with martinis. I probably shouldn’t…
It smells like chicken.
Feels like I popped out of can of sardines after 21 hours. I’m the tallest person, wandering around in a daze, no speak Chinese and I’m forced to type instead of take pictures. Forgot the videocamera. Realized that I forgot…
