Finally, 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…
Read MoreThicker Than Pea Soup: Beijing Smog
Beijing should be called Smog City Noon, but can you tell? Wangfujiang on a clear day! Its midday in Beijing, but you wouldn’t know it by the shadows. Even though there are no clouds in the sky, the sunlight isn’t bright enough to indicate the time of day. No, I’m…
Read MoreAt Least The Music Is Cheap
Everybody wants to steel you a CD! Better than Tori Amos! VCD! VCD! CD! VCD! Look, look, I have CD! This is what ya’ll hear if you look Western, as I do, and you walk anywhere in Beijing. Unlike Moscow, where they have a specific pirate CD market, it is…
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