Entries by AlanPaul

House for Rent

Great house for rent in one of metro New York’s greatest suburbs, Maplewood, NJ. Four bedrooms, 2.5 baths, backs onto a park, dead end street. Well, you know the deal. Looks like our tenants are moving out when their lease expires in January. So if you know anyone looking for a house, have them drop […]

CBA trip videos

CBA teams have some different warmup techniques. Rashid Byrd aka and 1’s Seven and sum Change throwing down in pregame. They get progressively better. This guy has some skills but will never develop them. The day after I left he had a huge fight with the team and police were called.

God Shammgod and hoops journey to Shanxi

I traveled to TaiYuan, Shanxi Province the other day for a Slam story. I was catching up with God Shammgod, the great pint guard with the great name who played U-Providence for two years before entering the Draft and playing a year for the Wizards before setting off on a multi-year international hoops journey. Said […]

Tell it to the Judge, aka Ripper!

My man Rodger “Ripper” Citron sent me the following message with glee. On top is a picture very similar if not identical to the one mentioned below, which the Judge brought to class. Since one humiliation deserves another so I posted an additional shot with the waitress at Sammy’s. Skirboll had her all hot and […]

Don’t Look Down!

My column went up today. It is my 24th. It’s somewhat hard for me to believe I am pushing on towards a year and 25+ columns now. Writing it has been great for me on many levels and most of them have come fairly easily. Even the ones I labored over line by bloody line […]

There goes the neighborhood

I have been thinking of writing about the way old Beijing is just being ripped down block by block and replaced by huge, glass skyscrapers, all over the central city. People hear about the hutongs (old alleyway neighborhoods) being torn down, but there are also endless blocks of old Soviet-style apartment buildings, about 10 stories […]

Oh damn!

Just like that, blogspot is banned again and I can’t view the site.. just when some friends here were starting to read it and I was feeling inspired to get cranking… Here today, gone tomorrow… you never know what the Great firewall of China will deflect next.

Joshua Anchia-Cohen

A big welcome to the world to Joshua Anchia Cohen, born in Costa Rica to cousin Amy Cohen and her husband Kenneth Anchia. How do you say Mazel Tov in Spanish? IN Chinese it is goong-see.