Black Friday sales have long since started, and I’m now just wishing everyone a happy Thanksgiving! Don’t worry, I hardly forgot about my favorite holiday. The past two weeks, I’ve been running around town getting prepared for the big meal — deciding on dishes, hunting down the ingredients, buying necessary host-wares. It was exhausting, to […]
I got some from Hegel’s Bagels, a new gig by a tall guy named Jordan from New York. They’re delicious, and 80 RMB ($12) for a baker’s dozen and free delivery (at least for me). Bagels are a rarity in China. I guess the Jew refugees from 1930s and 1940s Europe didn’t stick around long enough […]
I noted yesterday how I had never seen any helicopters in China. Today I did some quick research and found out why. China has about 180 civilian helicopters in use. That means 0.14 helicopters per million people — far lower than the international average of 3.9 helicopters per million.* That number is going to go up. […]
…I haven’t seen any helicopters in China. That’s all.
The past midterm elections were the first elections I got to witness from afar, not mired in the political machine that warps reality and makes normally intelligent and sane people go bonkers. America is so ugly when it comes to campaigning. For me, the reality of a midterm election had been looming somewhere in the […]