Author Archives: d4vid

Dirt

Posted on July 22, 2015 by d4vid

And speaking of Mark McGrath, this poster confronted me at a Burbank bus stop. W.T.Fuck? Now, I happen to have seen DEUCE BIGALOW 2: EUROPEAN GIGOLO in Amsterdam with a Dutch audience and it brought down the house.  So, I … Continue reading →

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California

Posted on July 22, 2015 by d4vid

California, here we come.  Right back where we started from. I was kind of hoping this was the song that would greet me when I got off the plane at LAX.  Alas, this was what was actually playing on the P.A. … Continue reading →

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Deafening

Posted on July 19, 2015 by d4vid

The cicadas.  The cicadas. 

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Seasonal

Posted on July 12, 2015 by d4vid

How am I celebrating China’s Golden Week the first week in October?  By leaving and going to Japan.  Just booked a leisurely trip to Kyoto and (for my birthday) a small village called Nikko. But does anyone happen to know if … Continue reading →

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Particulates III

Posted on July 12, 2015 by d4vid

My living room & bedroom air filters — front and back — after 80 days.    Previous air filter check ins here and here.

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Typhoon

Posted on July 10, 2015 by d4vid

Fought my way through a typhoon to walk to the doctor’s office this morning.  Apparently, typhoon Chan-hom is named after a Laotian tree of some kind and not, as I had first thought, a minor member system of the United Federation … Continue reading →

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Summer

Posted on July 10, 2015 by d4vid

And what was on next as I flipped channels?  500 Days of Summer.  Now my lungs and heart ache.

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Noughties

Posted on July 9, 2015 by d4vid

I’m at home recovering from bronchitis, watching CCTV (as is my wont.)  In the middle of a documentary on mammals — just as they were putting a crow in an MRI machine — they started playing FC Kahuna’s “Hayling”.  The … Continue reading →

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Metastasis

Posted on July 7, 2015 by d4vid

Twenty years of Shanghai Metro development.

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Suffix

Posted on July 7, 2015 by d4vid

 Computers often confuse the suffix at the end of my name for my surname.  So I assume the nurse glanced at my medical chart and took Mr. IV to his private room.

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Terminus V

Posted on June 23, 2015 by d4vid

My latest terminus adventure (note how carefully I avoid the more correct but more ominous “terminal adventure”) took me to the Utter West, but was extra challenging because Metro Line 11 has two spurs. First, I tried the north spur.  … Continue reading →

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Festival

Posted on June 23, 2015 by d4vid

It was a three day weekend in China for the Dragon Boat Festival.  I was so lazy, I didn’t even bother looking up what it was.  Something about a poet.

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Egocentric

Posted on June 14, 2015 by d4vid

This Qin-era weapon is called a “gē”.  It usually gets translated into English as “spear” or “pike” or “dagger axe”, but as you can see from the picture it’s kind of weirder than any of those and I can’t really think … Continue reading →

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Circumnavigate

Posted on June 13, 2015 by d4vid

 Rented a bike atop the Xi’an city walls and rode the 8.5 miles around it.  The speakers on the lampposts play traditional Chinese music, which really added to the whole experience. Took about 90 minutes (with stops at all four … Continue reading →

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Ozymandias

Posted on June 12, 2015 by d4vid

“Look on my works, ye mighty and despair.”  Or, if Shelley isn’t your thing, insert a relevant Siouxie Sioux lyric instead.  Because I’m certainly not here to tell you how to run your life. I took an hour long public … Continue reading →

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