An American Blogs About China
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey. William Faulkner
I’ve been reading William Faulkner. In fact I read anything I can get my hands on here. Part of me wishes that I was out here writing a novel or script instead of internet businessing but that’s stupid because [...]
You’re in China. You want to go to go upstairs or downstairs quickly without actually using stairs. What do you do?
If you said ‘take the elevator’ give yourself a pat on the back. You’re gonna go far.
Using an elevator in China is different than using one in other places.
Let’s begin.
I went to dinner with my friend Felix and he had thought that I knew that Hot Pot at this certain place meant dog. I didn’t know. During a later indignant speech about how eating dogs is wrong Felix told me that I had in fact eaten dog already. Later Felix pointed it out on [...]
I watch a lot of American movies here in China. I’m not a movie-watching kind of person back home.
But now:
I like them. They understand me. I understand them.
(Also, DVDs are 60 cents with slim packaging and $1 with professional packaging)
You can find a lot to dislike about pretty much anything and China is no exception. Here are some things about China (Shenzhen in particular):
I have not had any amazing cultural-spiritual awakening or enlightenment and probably won’t. I haven’t stood on any mountain tops and looked across the countryside or shared an intimate meal [...]
From your album:
“Wall Photos”
Breakfast Roulette#2: every morning I will eat breakfast at one of two restaurants that have breakfast menus, but in chinese. I point to one of the 10 items every day and must eat it. Yesterday was thin bread with steak and hollandaise. Win! Today I lost pretty bad. 18 more to [...]
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