Monthly Archives: November 2015

Mountains

Posted on November 27, 2015 by d4vid

 To my eye, these rocks on a table at the Confucian Temple in Shanghai look like the distant mountains in a shansui painting.

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Phoenix

Posted on November 27, 2015 by d4vid

  A carved window at Longhua Temple.

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Turkey

Posted on November 26, 2015 by d4vid

My dear friend Debbie is in town.  (Woo-hoo!)  We went out for Thanksgiving dinner with friends at an ex pat bar.  Only 5/8ths of us were American (rounded out by Chinese, Italian, and Swedish) but the food was traditional & … Continue reading →

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Barsoom

Posted on November 10, 2015 by d4vid

Before Netflix.  Before DVDs.  Before motherfucking VHS, the only way to watch a movie over and over and over again was syndicated television on the weekends. For a certain generation (um, mine) that means that the movies you ended up … Continue reading →

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Jack

Posted on November 6, 2015 by d4vid

  Jack Black came by work today.  Didn’t get a chance to ask him if there would ever be a Bob Roberts 2. 

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Vast

Posted on November 2, 2015 by d4vid

It’s always a challenge to express to people back in the States what it’s like to live in a city of 24 million people.  Or what it’s like to live in a place where apartment buildings are skyscrapers.  But it’s … Continue reading →

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