July 21, 2009

Been working small with ink and paper and pen and whatnot. I need to buy a tarp if I'm going to continue to work in my apartment. I have a good relationship with my landlord (who lives most of the year in Japan; hence, I NEVER see him) and I really don't want to fuck up his floors. In many ways I miss the warehouses in the Oakland ghettos: having Jorge Piaget to keep up with just one of the features.

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After work ice cold draft beers are 3 yuan (50 cents). At this point, my coworkers and I have befriended 75% of the staff including the couple who owns our regular watering hole. Chuar, all meat kabobs (usually lamb) barbecued on a stick, are cheap and just plain good. They go for a yuan a piece.

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A student originally from Inner Mongolia has invited me to her parents' house to eat Mongolian noodles. I have no idea what that means, but nothing about it is sounding bad. I hope I get to help make them.

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Rodney, what happens between the 5 and 7 is the death of slapstick and shadow-puppetry. Let us bow our heads in rememberance of bygone arts.

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Fucking Godsquaders. Making shit difficult for the rest of us with legitimate work visas.

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Candy Matson was an awesome radio show. http://www.oneact.org/productions/CandyMatson/CandyMatson.pdf

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Sorry about the above link, but I have few of the usual features blogger offers, so I had to put it all out there.

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Kerouac + beach = unhappy

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On my cab ride to work, as I was reading Big Sur, I unfortunately got Natalie Merchant's "hey Jack Kerouac / I think of your mother" song in my head. I had to put the book back in my bag.

July 18, 2009

1. Have been getting up around 5ish, so I can go to the gym at 7 before I have to go to work.
2. Joined another gym. This one has a pool and a sauna and whatnot. It's the kind of place that if you brought a book, you really could spend the better part of a day there. My other one, while much cheaper and closer, doesn't have amenities like fans to help cope with the 100 degree Beijing days.
3. Student loans are on my ass.
4. Re-reading Kerouac's Big Sur. When I read it as an 18 year old, I didn't really understand all the cynicism.
5. I want to tell the West Bay team that Dan Fisher was totally a legal substitution and that Mr. Fisher was in on the Poet's Basketball from day two.
6. Been looking for places to use as an art studio/alternative space for things.
7. That is sometimes hard, as developers are knocking down everything affordable in Beijing to build gigantic pricey high-rise apartment buildings.
8. Listening to a lot of baseball over the internet.

July 17, 2009

So it seems from the help of a Canadian proxy that I may be able to keep Union Herald going. More later.