revolutionary elisions - made a visit to the Revolutionary Martyrs Museum in Nanjing today, which commemorated those fallen comrades to the KMT in the year the KMT made their split from the Communist Party and the subsequent years where the KMT made their attempts to purge communist party members from - well, existence. the museum contained ( Read more... )

so i might be in china far longer than expected...i wanted to be back by the second week of august, but all the flights are booked up...i might not be back 'til august 23rd! that wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, but the fear is the dough will run out, and also, i won't be able to see good ol' 23 burbank drive again as my return date is way ( Read more... )

i'm eating too much ice cream. it's nearly criminal how much ice cream i consume in china. the thing is, it's just that cheap. imagine this for a moment: a large ice cream bar smothered in a hardened chocolate shell; but that's not all, inside the ice cream is a hardened centre of MORE chocolate, and surrounding this chocolate is either a) cookie ( Read more... )

to live - a sustained madness might be considered unhealthy, but a moderate madness might be considered a value.

mimesis - the mimetic prowess of the photograph seduces and deceives. it somehow fools us into believing it has the capability to reproduce authentically a moment. no, the picture lies, carrying with it the aspirations of the ( Read more... )

i walked away quickly, not completely sure of what had just happened. i heard a shattering but was still too cloudy in the head to make much sense of anything. there really was only one thing to do - walk, and keep walking, far, far away. this can't be happening - not in china, not here, not now. i spotted a side street off the main road which i ( Read more... )

deconstruction in kunming - this morning i chilled out hanging in the lobby area of the hostel i'm staying at. it was just me and my james joyce novel, cross-legged on the sofa appreciating the rain. not 30 minutes into this second reading of joyce i was plesantly interrupted by a gentleman probably within two years of my age. he remarked "ah, ( Read more... )

love in yangshuo - last night while wandering the streets of yangshuo with ted, in search of cheap massages, i was encountered on two occasions - once by an older lady, and another by an older man - offering up "young girls" in mandarin. i wouldn't have understood without ted there to translate. i must look like someone who "needs some" since it ( Read more... )

hoops - balled with the locals in guilin this morning. we all had a good time - there were the obvious verbal communication issues, but a backdoor cut at bps is a backdoor cut anywhere. it was a fun 3-on-3 affair, but it's so damn hot and humid in guilin that i was soaked after only about 30 minutes. i only had time for a coupla games up to 11, and ( Read more... )

an image - the thought occurred to me while taking snapshots atop Fubo Mountain in Guilin today how pointless, or perhaps how unsatisfying the whole practice was. how many pictures of mountainous guilin to capture full presence? but also, how innacurate a portrayal of guilin to only shoot the mountains. i hate taking pictures anyhow - yet there's ( Read more... )

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