Entries by AlanPaul

Exploring hutongs

Speaking of John Pollock (see Big House post).. I met him last week in Beijing. He is a friend of Rodger Citron’s and he got in touch, s aid he’d be here, etc. We met downtown at Houhai lake and I took him bike riding through old Beijing, around the lake, through the hutongs and […]

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the Big House in danger

You’ll know right away whether or not you care about this… My new friend John Pollock is quoted in this story… he set up Save the Big House to stop this monstrosity from happening. The Regents assure dhim in writing less than 24 hours before the meeting that the proposal was not going to be […]

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Beijing stage debut

I made my Beijing performing debut last night at the Orchard, a great restaurant very close to our house. We’ll take you there if you come visit. The owner, Lisa Minder Wu is actually from Wheeling West Virginia. She has been here for a while, originally coming as a journalist. Her husband is Chinese and […]

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Jacob and Caroline followup

Several people have inquired about how the dinner with Caroline went. We had a very nice night –it’s always nice to spend an evening with some Pittsburghers in Beijing – but I think Jacob was a little disappointed. There’s no great story to tell. That happened earlier, with the actual set up. It could only […]

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Jacob

Jacob’s former nemesis and now good friend Caroline Madden and her family are coming for dinner tonight, along with the family of Edward Purcell, Jacob’s other very good friend. He has been very exctied about this for a few days. He was up early this morning, which is not unusual. But he usually comes down […]

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1979 Bucs memories

My brother Delaware Dave sent me the following message. It got me thinking… Though it was a defining moment of my childhood, the Pirates winning the World series seems so very long ago and such a distant era, as noted in many of the details below. It is as far removed from us now as […]

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THE KITE MARKET

The top picture shows a bus stop across Jing shun Lu from the Kite Market. The next one is the guy fixing our TV. The rest are the market or adjoining stores. I’ve written before about the crazy market down the road from us. It’s such a dirty place that after a year or two, […]

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