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Magic in a bottle
From the bottle of Fox's U-Bet Original Chocolate Flavor Syrup that I bought today:
"INGREDIENTS: CORN SYRUP (SUGAR DURING PASSOVER), WATER, COCOA, DRY MILK POWDER, XANTHAN GUM, VANILLIN (AN ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR), SALT, PRESERVED WITH POTASSIUM SORBATE ( Read more... ) -
Home for the holidays
Pictures of Beijing during Chinese New Year (not mine, just something on Huffington Post that Google News sent my way ( Read more... ) -
A double dactyl on the subject of performing spoken chorus pieces in China
"Rimini, Brindisi"--
If you are singing Ernst
Toch's work, the Fuge aus der
Geographie,
Though it is fun to say
"Popocatepetl",
Chanting "Tibet," you had
Best not add "Free!"
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How the heck have I never heard of the Geographical Fugue before now? It's like "Bulbous Bouffant" but with volcanoes! I stumbled across it on Youtube this morning and ( Read more... ) -
Back in Beijing, but with a mind still in America
And I don't just mean that in the sentimental sense. Jet lag: it sucks ( Read more... ) -
Exploration
Today's xkcd is awesome. I am reminded of my mother's comment after seeing "Lost In Translation": that all of the characters were losers and that if she were in Tokyo with nothing to do, no knowledge of the language, and nobody she knew around, she'd go out into the city and look for interesting things, dammit, and probably have a great time! (I, ( Read more... ) -
Tropical Charoset
2 small mangoes, diced ( Read more... ) -
Things Cody likes
1) Spring! After a few weeks when it looked like spring was just around the corner but during which Beijing kept throwing at us sandstorms, snows, smog, and other miscellaneous wintry shit, today was the first day in quite some time that I'd describe as "sunny and warm". Like, I could walk around in a t-shirt levels of warm. I took a walk along the ( Read more... ) -
Cutest cephalopod ever
Friend!
Dorothy Gambrell is going to be at Vericon, and I am not. Sadness.
(Also, many of you are going to be at Vericon and I am not. This is also sadness. But none of you write Cat and Girl.) -
Because I assume you're all doing the Cage Match
(click here if you have no clue what I'm talking about)
My votes:
The Shrive vs. Arthur Dent
An unstoppable killing machines vs. a mostly harmless human? Well, the human's victory would be about as ridiculously improbable as it gets, wouldn't it?
Kahlan Amnell vs. Drizzt Do'urden ( Read more... )