"Never look back at the past, my angel. It leaps at your throat like a mad dog."
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Cigarette Aficionado
"For male Chinese entrepreneurs, the give-and-take of cigarettes represents a kind of semaphore. There are some four hundred Chinese brands, each with a distinct identity and an unspoken exchange rate. Around Beijing, peasants smoke Red Plum Blossoms. Red Pagoda Mountain can be found in the pockets of average city men. Low-level entrepreneurs like Zhongnanhai Lights. A nouveau-riche businessman tosses out Chunghwas as if they were rice. Pandas are the rarest beast of all. That was supposedly Deng Xiaoping's favorite brand, and government quotas make them hard to find."
- Peter Hessler from The New Yorker
Monday, August 18, 2008
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
The Owls Are Not What They Seem
{o,o} {^,^} "Wise midnight bags! It is no honest and blunt
|)__) (__(| tu-whit tu- who of the poets, but, without jesting,
-"-"- -"-"- a most solemn graveyard ditty, the mutual consolations of suicide lovers remembering the pangs and the delights of supernal love in the infernal groves...They are the spirits, the low spirits and melancholy forebodings, of fallen souls that once in human shape night-walked the earth and did the deeds of darkness, now expiating their sins with their wailing hymns or threnodies in the scenery of their transgressions."
- H.D. Thoreau
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Sugar Bullets
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