For Beijing readers: There’ll be a benefit concert at Mao Livehouse tomorrow night from 8:30 on. The Verse, Sand (a fun talking blues-style band), Rando(m), and IC Girlband are playing. Tickets are 50 kuai. Spread the word.
Mao is on the north side of Gulou Dong Dajie, about halfway between Jiaodaokou and the Drum Tower, or [...]
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Benefit concert for Sichuan earthquake
88 Days: Portents (Listen to the Suckhole)
I have no luck at all with earthquakes. Philadelphia is a stubbornly immobile city and has been since the Jurassic or so, my brief time in San Francisco wasn’t spiced up by even the faintest tremor, and when a small earthquake hit Beijing a couple of years ago, I slept straight through it.
I was awake [...]
92 Days: We're All Fucked
A while ago I had an idea for a series of bumper stickers about Eastern philosophy — all variations on the theme of “We’re All Fucked.” (Note: not accurate, particularly in the glossing of Mo-Tzu’s 兼爱.) For example:
Buddhism:
We’re All Fucked
pray for oblivion
Taoism (Lao-Tzu):
We’re All Fucked
don’t let them know they’re fucked
Confucius:
We’re All Fucked
unless you study really [...]
98 Days: Bollocks
As mentioned yesterday, Li and I went to see The Forbidden Kingdom, the new Jet Li/Jackie Chan movie. It did have a couple of saving graces — the fight scene between Jackie Chan and Jet Li is absolutely worth the price of admission; the slapstick scenes in which Jet Li and Jackie Chan fight by [...]
99 Days: And All That Mighty Heart
It’s spring, and less grittily so than usual. Not that the air is clean, of course, but the days are warming and lengthening, and the skies are blue or something like it, and we appear to be in the middle of Beijing’s spring allotment of nice days.
Li and I went out to a late showing [...]