The Pulitzer has now officially been awarded. Photos courtesy of Andrew Lih, husband of Mei Fong. Mei is the other woman in the pictures. The guy is Jason Dean. Mei is, as far as we can tell, the first Chinese to win such an award for covering China. I just grabbed these thumbnails off of […]

The mighty machine of a band keeps chugging along. We are playing a tapas bar downtown tomorrow. This one is pretty funny. The Mexican percussion player we hired for one gig booked a gig himself but he has no band and subcontracted to us. It sort of cracked me up to get a call seeking […]

Saturday morning, Eli and his best friend in Maplewood, Jackson Wagner, had a long-awaited, much-discussed Club Penguin playdate. I called Rick, we put the kids on, each on speakerphone, and they found each other on Club Penguin and played for a good hour or more. Thanks to my Vonage unlimited plan, time was of no […]

Click here to see my columns in Chinese. You can open up any of them and scroll to the bottom. They have a feedback section and I have ton, most of which I can’t read (there are some in English). I am going to get some help translating soe of this stuff, especially the ones […]