Time-Lapse Video in China
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 tilt-shift video- and photography. The same...
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me and stinky passed out at the hospital
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 anything he likes and when I come home from work he starts jumping and squealing...
View ArticleSong I bumped in Nicole’s basement
This is a track i tend to listen to from time to time that is Stinky-related. Corny?
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Horses and Tea and all manner of Roads
Up to no good on the old Horse and Tea Trade Route 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 I am concerned. It...
View ArticleOne Second Encounters
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 silenced. I remember the little Chinese meimei sitting with her grandmother on a...
View ArticleAccess Divine
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 Leaves In Sunbeams Inside your Dreams I can do...
View ArticleVisa Issues
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 Christmas (close enough) and my plan was to apply for a tourist visa to...
View ArticleCtrip.com Youtube Travel Video Channel — Get Some!
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 we’ll have more coming up over time. Leave a comment or just pass it...
View Article/facepalm
Man everywhere i look the oppression is just getting deeper and deeper — at least when I peep the news. there is China doing all it can to keep dissidents either silent or dead or scared out of their...
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My wrist hurts
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 the iron circle for a while. it felt better afterwards. i am back at the 9-5 grind after a few weeks...
View ArticleI should be armchair travelin’
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 things that you heard about China as a kid actually don’t exist anymore and have...
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Into a groove
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 destination guides using bad reviews from the web and memories — either...
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Fast, Cheap or Good: You can only have Two
Good and Cheap ... 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 find it to be a pretty decent appraisal of what is...
View ArticleSyed Saleem Shazad
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 situation. Never once did I close the Asia Times window and not sit...
View ArticleRecent news and other tidbits
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 a micron. Unfortunate, but a lot of it has to do with fatigue and...
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Poo issues
help! 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 over ” … i won’t take it like Shaq from three … with...
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Giving notice
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 of the rat race. My only honorable ticket i guess, cuz if something else got me free...
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Support Broke Writers
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 these days, so the writing they have is pretty damn good. I have a story in the...
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Up for Grabs
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 pissing into the wind, for the most part. I met great people there, but the...
View ArticleThere might still be blood ….
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 in favor of the protestors and focused more on the restoration of order. It...
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Excerpts from an Interview with Luo Fahui
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 in October. Stay tuned next week for more Chengdu artist...
View ArticleBlinded by the Web
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 a bunch of problems in the country and, for the most part, the propaganda...
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Ode to Third Ring Road
with my hair slicked back so the girls can see 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 myself a little community,...
View ArticleDying Cultures
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 anymore because I have come to the sad conclusion that,...
View ArticleA many headed troll at the helm
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 Perfect Storm, the End of the Known World dropping off into Nothing on one...
View ArticleThat cess in yer chest
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 toilet bowl like adolescent lust. And clings to it like a first...
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Escaping the China Winter
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 Guangxi to Harbin. Only a few pockets of sunshine are...
View ArticlePragmatic above all things
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 there. I think deep, she said, and I question everything. Everybody thinks I am...
View ArticleSovereignty
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 to the nationalistic, and what we have read in...
View ArticleThese are my last words
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 healing salve for my eyes regenerate on a daily basis refusing...
View ArticleGibbering again
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 inside; when people think low of me, I feel the warrior stir....
View ArticleResist the Worst
“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 the injustice of being falsely condemned or the despair of...
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Do you remember?
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 ever too late. Check out these Letters in the Fiction Section which I will be updating from...
View ArticleInsomnia
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 can’t get no peace. So I get up and get dressed and toss on my shoes...
View ArticleSticky Post: About this Blog
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 should never be misconstrued as such. The things I write in here reflect my opinions only,...
View ArticleShame, the movie, and how Porn is killing the World Soul
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 on the whole family, the wet chupa in the middle of the...
View ArticleBook Review: Hawkins, Sagan, Zinn and Thompson
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 type of post, so here goes another one, this time 4 (5?) books and not three....
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Tumblr Aint Just for Porn
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 you can drop stuff in a heartbeat, whereas with WordPress I feel like I...
View ArticleFlashlights in the Dark
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 same droll, insular, looping urgency of first world problems. If all...
View ArticleJuvenile
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 swear i remember absolutely nothing of the book that captured my moments and...
View ArticleChongqing’s Cheating Heart
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 Star Players and Haters. This essay is actually an older one that’s been in my...
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Telling my kids about Winter
Art by Gerald Strine 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 with my two boys during these cold winter months. I did manage to...
View ArticleIt’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 funnel right above my head. Bright sunlight through the...
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It’s April Again (Redux)
via Reddit 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 being ugly and unwieldy and not what I wanted it to be....
View ArticleThe Sliver of a Moon
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 in the blackening blue on the other. There are not enough...
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Semiotics and Screenface
Got this new day job. I dress up real nice most days, sit in a cubicle like I swore I never would. and. stare … I hear things will change once I go through training, but for now, it’s just screenface...
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Winter
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? Will the crows come back and roost in our trees, silent and...
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Nobody Speak, Nobody Get Choked
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, are anything more than figments of a grander imagination. Of my...
View ArticleEllo
“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 the Big Boy cup as if she were a woman who missed me and was...
View ArticleUnscarred
Witches and their screeching retribution have figured prominently in my dreams these last few days. Bloody bony hands and black bile spat out; cursed marriages and revelatory exorcisms of truth...
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