One other thing

Hallelujah! My DSL problems seem to be fixed, though I guess I should wait 24 hours before doing proverbial high fives. That means my phone and ISite should be working again and I can start uploading videos and more photos (and downloading the…

Previous Post

Okay, I’ve largely sworn off politics for the blog and will see if I can keep that up through the mid term elections. But I thought the George Allen thing was so funny and revealing that I had to put it up. Maybe my perspective is warped because…

Who you callin’ a Jew bitch?

Note the very end, when he accuses questioner of "casting aspersions" about his heritage.

Weekend travel

Well, we’ve been keeping to our pledge to get out and about more this year. We went away the least two weekends, for at least a day. Last weekend, we went out to the country home in a small village of our friends Eric and Titi. We had a great…

Catching Up with Summer Photos: Beach Haven

I’m still working my through the hundreds of photos we took this summer. The process has been greatly slowed by my continuing lack of high-speed connections at home. I am now sitting in a subway, of all places. They have a great connection.Beach…

Catching Up with Summer Photos: Beach Haven

I’m still working my through the hundreds of photos we took this summer. The process has been greatly slowed by my continuing lack of high-speed connections at home. I am now sitting in a subway, of all places. They have a great connection.Beach…

Last week’s column

This should seem pretty familiar to you regular readers, like CARRIE WELLS. Do you think my responses to reader letters are too pithy? THE EXPAT LIFEBy ALAN PAUL A Hike in the Hills OffersAn Escape From the CitySeptember 14, 2006 6:43 p.m.Beijing…

Selling Out

We went out to an interesting and fun dinner last night. A surprise 40th birthday party for a new friend who works at the Embassy in a pretty big job, and we met a lot of new people, interesting folks. There were two guests there who read my…

Interesting blog

This is an interesting blog. A mirror image of mine. Young chinese woman studying at columbia and recounting her experiences in NYC. Skip all the homework stuff at top and scroll down. I thought it was quite interesting.Note: Alan De Zon, who…

Music Lovers Check This Out

There is a site called Rock's Back Pages -- www.rocksbackpages.comwhich includes about 5,000 articles by a host of rothe mbest music writers of the last 30-40 years, including, ahem, me. I've only given them a few things actually but the real…