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Category Archives: 上海
Thwarted II
I hate having my errand thwarted. I arrived at the garment market only to find that it was still closed for Chinese New Year. Oh, well, I’ll go buy shoes instead. I arrived at the New Balance store to be told … Continue reading
Population II
While I’m at it, I might as well update my population chart. Location 地方 Population Chongqing 重庆 52,100,000 Tokyo 东京 37,800,000 Shanghai 上海 34,000,000 Beijing 北京 24,900,000 Hangzhou 杭州 21,521,000 Tianjin 天津 15,500,000 Xi’an 西安 13,500,000 Los Angeles 洛杉矶 13,000,000 … Continue reading
Distance
I started wondering wondering if Kashgar was the farthest I had ever been from where I grew up. (Almost, but not quite, as it turns out.) In the spirit of the population and elevation charts, I made this: Location 地方 … Continue reading
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Peripatetic
Stacks of camel saddles in the marketplace around the Id Kah Mosque. My grandparents had a passion for travel. They went all over the world, often with my father, aunts, uncle, and then, later, grandchildren in tow. Their house was filled … Continue reading
Friends
I always love seeing movies at the IAPM mall here in Shanghai. Before the movie starts, there is this CG short with cute little characters singing along to a song about shutting the fuck up and watching the movie. 朋友们， … Continue reading
Donkey
Out past the Gold Sand River on the Apricot Mountain Road (aren’t Chinese street names poetic?) there is a little shop that sells cured donkey meat. You can guess that first character on the lantern 驴 (lǘ) is “donkey” because … Continue reading
Jest
And but so it wasn’t entirely unselfconsciously that I took my second daily dose of bupropion1 just before I finished reading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, with its ending less like an exit through the gift shop and more like finding oneself at … Continue reading
Solstice
It’s raining. I’m sitting here at the airport in Pudong, waiting to fly through the longest night of the year.
Loyalties
It is part of the Rebel alliance and a cookie! Take it away!
Inferno
How hot was the Sichuan hot pot I had with Robyn & Nafees? Just look at the price.
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Shiny
They hung this gaudy Christmas ornament in my apartment building’s (mirrored) elevator. Hooves, red. Tail, red. Antlers, red. Nose, not red. Get your shit together, China.
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Campanology II
They opened a Taco Bell in Shanghai! In Pudong! As a student of all things bell, I felt obliged to try it. Main thing that was different from Taco Bell in the U.S.: booze.Main thing that was the same as … Continue reading
Throw
I used to do this all the time. Like most weekends. But think this might have been the first time I’ve done it here in China: I watched back-to-back movies. After watched The Great Wall (in IMAX 3D), I immediately watched Sully … Continue reading