Propaganda
Just was watching CCTV 9, China’s English language station, as I boiled up some...
Nov 29th
Dept. of Interesting Coincidences
The Great Firewall of China is now blocking tumblr blogs. Happily, a few days ago M & B clued me...
Nov 24th
"Fuuuuuuuuuyuan!" or The Great Leap...
Thanksgiving might have passed completely unobserved hereabouts, but that it provided a pretext for...
Nov 23rd
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Такого Как Путин 2 (via Jelena)
Nov 21st
Такого как Путин
I dreamt last night of Putin. Boarding some kind of ship festooned with banners depicting hero...
Nov 21st
“Epiphany, like pretzels and spray craps, is often tied to...”
— D.J. Collier
— D.J. Collier
Nov 21st
nothing off the top
Well, have finally abandoned any delusion that I was actually going to grow my hair long....
Nov 17th
5 Second Reviews: China Indie Rock...
Carsick Cars, Carsick Cars: Sonic Chinese Youth circa Goo…which is to say driving, melodic hard-rock...
Nov 14th
Visual representation of everything that ails...
Nov 14th
Montage of works by Yin Zhaoyang, Tang Gallery, 798 Art...
Nov 12th
Мир тесен
Мир тесен. I’ve always liked the Russian version of “it’s a small world” better because it implies...
Nov 11th
Birja Boys, Mr. Littlemanson & the...
BSB: i love that pic that c. sent meit's such an easy costume change from friendly marshutka driver to evil henchman
me: :-) Indeed. Birja Boys Gone Wild!
one hates to be determinist
BSB: but...
me: but there really is something "histrionic" in the Georgian character that makes developments like this not the least surprising.
BSB: it's true
that Badri Patarkatsishvili is a real bastard though
i blame him
me: don't know much about him, other than he's "Georgia's wealthiest man"
shill for the Russians?
BSB: reason enough to dislike him, but heard from sources on the ground that he's whipping people up with all this xenophobic nationalistic shit
"if i were president i'd have all the Chinese out of Georgia in 3 hours" stuff like that
me: the Chinese being one of Georgia's major problems.
waaay too many Chinese.
BSB: obviously
Nov 8th
შორს... (Far away...)
Many folks aflutter about the goings-on in Tbilisi: protesters tear-gassed on Rustaveli Ave.; Imedi,...
Nov 7th
Voyeurism and Exhibitionism
Nov 4th
It's not the cold...
…it’s the lack of heat. This is not a Zen koan, but a way of noting that my apartment is...
Nov 4th
Are you now or have you ever been a...
Oct 31st