Entries by AlanPaul

Checking in From Sichuan

We are only on day two of this trip to sichuan and it feels like we’ve been gone a lot longer. I am typing now from an internet cafe up a dark alley in a little mountain town. The place is packed, seemingly moistly with young guysplaying either very violent or very silly/childish games. Strange. […]

Aunt Judy in the house

So Aunt Judy is here, with Hal and Ruth and Jenny. And she’s loving it, having a great time. I think her biggest obsession though is my Vonage phone. She just keeps calling Royal Oak and Huntington Woods, Michigan and saying “I only have to dial 1-248!” It’s been a nice but fast visit here. […]

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Wild Great Wall Hike

Becky’s parents, little sister Jenny and Aunt Judy arrived yesterday afternoon. They are only in Beijing for a few days as we are all leaving for Sichuan early Weds. morning and they are then continuing on without us. So it’s been whirlwind. We went out to dinner last night and headed for the Great Wall […]

Woodie Alan gig video

The gig was a big success. I was suprisingly not nervous. Which is to say I was nervous but not freaking out. We had a huge turnout. Dave lives right around the corner from me and word definitely spread around that two guys from Riviera were playing at the Orchard. So in addition to most […]

Sleepovers and such

Full house here on Friday.. everyone had a friend over.. Anna’s friend Lauren slept over and they were busy busy from the second she arrived until the second she left the next morning. Jacob had his classmate Harry Sha here. Also very happy.

Woodie Alan

Here you can see the very first photos of the mighty Woodie Alan. Photos from our third and final rehearsal last night, at the Stone Boat in Ritan Park, a great little bar. we were there past midnight hammering some stuff out and enjoying the icy draft Tsingtao. Unfortunately, saxman Dynamite Dave couldn’t make it. […]

Last week’s column

A lot of people got error messages trying to read ths one. I have no idea why. Anyhow, here it is. I’ve gotten a lot of response, email and on forum, from this one. Drop by the forum and shake things up a bit. How the Internet ShrinksThe Distance Between UsMarch 16, 2007 Living 7,000 […]

Beijing Museum of Natural History

We finally made it to the Beijing Museum of Natural History yesterday. We had been told it was pretty good and it was. Before I get to the museum, let me address the parking. If that seems odd, The museum is situated in South Beijing, just on the west flank of the Temple of Heaven, […]

Pictures

Fresh from my camera to the blog, on an early saturday morning. We’re having Jacob’s birthday party this afternoon, pushed back from last week because of his illness — which turned out to be salmonella. Ironic that he would get it, by far the least likely member of our family to eat anything odd. They […]