Buying a Ticket Is Easier Than Anyone Says
For a ticket, just go to the train station to get whatcha want I’m gonna ride the train! The first Hong Kong ticket Today I went looking for a train ticket to Hong Kong and I’m not sure which is harder, buying a train ticket in Russia or asking someone…
Read MoreOpen the F#*%ing Doors!
Never be late for a train in China The lucky ones who made it I don’t wanna start pointing fingers, cuz I only have ten, but lets just say a comedy of errors, including a few of my own, preceded my mad dash across the Beijing West train Station Thursday…
Read MoreFinally, I’m back!
What ya’ll have been waiting for, the new me! Too much party-time! The band at my night job. I know the silence has been deafening for ya’ll, and many thanks to all those who have written asking if I was still alive, especially an avid reader asking if she needed…
Read MoreI Done Got Me a Job!
I’m an editor! Can you believe it? The Beijing Review I done got me a job, and you never gonna guess what I do! Somehow, some way, I’m now a ‘foreign expert’ in China, and appointed the Senior Editor of Beijing Review, China’s only national news magazine published in English,…
Read MoreI Can Smell the Censorship in China
The Party knows best for the Chinese Ever read 1984? No one talks about it here, so it must not happen in China, but I can feel the censorship permeating the society on a daily basis. After Russia and America where the presses are free (or at least free for…
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