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I’ve often wondered about what it would have been like to live in a pre-Empire Strikes Back world. To have seen the menace of Darth Vader and not known that he was Luke’s father. To have gone to the theatre and been thrown down a bottomless shaft myself when the secret was revealed.
As [...]
Remember back in elementary school when they taught you all about bicycle safety? Older readers who were thrown in front of traffic on two wheels might not, but I grew up in the ’80s, and we got this stuff all the time (though I’m still a touch old to be part of the “wearing [...]
Today I bought a couple of shirts purely out of spite.
People who get my quasi-weekly emails (and if you want to, just give me your email address in the comments) might remember me mentioning how much I hate the shirts that exist here in Wanzhou. They’re all pastel crap with big stripes and are [...]
Well, Chinese New Year is long over and the libraries are open for free net access again. Yay blog.
I never have to see fireworks ever again. It’s very good that fireworks have never been too huge a focus for my life because I’d now have performed cunnilingus on the virgin Mary far too [...]
I like to think of myself as culturally sensitive. I don’t go around saying stuff like “Why don’t all these people just learn English?” or anything. I didn’t puke when we had tongue of bat (tongue of bat!) in our hotpot yesterday. I don’t make a big deal out of little kids [...]
Months ago I was asking a class about an article’s “scattering like leaves” simile. No one would say if they knew what it meant. I wasn’t sure if that was because leaves didn’t fall here or they just didn’t know what scattering meant or what.
Today I saw dried yellow leaves on the street [...]
The bank picture probably is connected with everything. Margie heard that in the original fight on Monday night (between a couple and a bangbang man) people got very angry and set fire to a police car. Which could have been in front of the bank. That kind of puts things in better [...]
I like the variety of comments I’ve gotten about my Tuesday escapade. From “Ha ha! You’re going to die!” to “This kind of thing happens in China. Here are some other articles” to “I’m glad you’re not dead. My life is boring” to “I’m so proud of you!” But my favourite [...]
It’s amazing what a little fist-fight can do.
Supposedly all of that stuff yesterday with the riot police and the army and everything happened because two guys got into an argument on the street. I got this story from Wang Kun this morning.
There’s an out-of-work guy who says something to a guy and his wife [...]
Alright, let’s just call this the most eventful day I’ve had in China and be done with it already.
I just got off the phone with a girl Xian Qian (no clue at all) who called very politely and sang a fragment of You Are My Sunshine and talked about her middle school and asked about [...]
