Moonlight, Anthony, and I rode a bus out to the countryside west of Nanchang. It's spring here and the weather is perfect- a little cold at night, cool in the morning, warm in the afternoon and then slightly breezy and cool at sunset. It was freezing in the winter and soon enough this place will be oppressively hot. Right now however, the ( Read more... )

Hi folks, here is a video made by my city's television station. First the long version, then the minute and a half, then the 30 second version. Nanchang is not as nice as the video makes it look, but the video does show many interesting highlights of the city ( Read more... )

Hi all, Aaron is teaching me to sneak around the Chinese censors. May I cordially invite China's censors to fuck off & may I confirm that if you have heard any rumors about my family life, they are true. I'll have pictures up soon along with regular updates. Hope all is well with you all.

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I'm sure all know that yesterday the president commuted the prison sentence of I. Lewis Scooter Libby. *** Edited 7/7/07- all the press coverage of the commutation I have read makes me more convinced of my original armchair analysis ( Read more... )

Yesterday at approximately 8:45 p.m., after 355 days in the middle kingdom (AKA the People's Republic of China), I bit into a very tasty Rubio's Especial fish taco. The Rubio's near the corner of Marine avenue and Sepulveda Blvd. in Manhattan Beach provided a great venue for my first meal in the United States since July 6, 2006. The fish was well ( Read more... )

July 7th, 2006 to June 26th 2007. I thought I would make it at ( Read more... )

Well JingGangShan was interesting to say the least. I was a participant on China's version of 'American Idol'. I got a phone call from my 'boss' Grand Tuesday May 1st at nine o'clock at night. He told me I would have an opportunity to travel to JingGangShan if I brought my saxophone to the entrance of a NanChang's television station the NEXT ( Read more... )

Smuggled out from behind the Chinese Internet Iron Curtain ( Read more... )

No thank Hu. As in the leader here in China, Hu Jintao. In honor of the 10th National Conference/ Congress of the Exalted Heroes of the People's Deputies Glory and well whatever- a bunch of big wig politicians from all over China are getting together this week in Beijing ( Read more... )