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Guizhou column and letters

A Trek Off the Beaten Path Pays Rich Dividends May 12, 2006 China has three weeklong holidays when virtually the entire country shuts down. With no school and no caregivers, they are prime times to go exploring, but because 1.3 billion other people have the same idea, many expats prefer to stay put or leave […]

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Rodney Dangerfield Obit

My friend Alan Dezon who was over here working for Clear Channel and is now back for Ticketmaster, is a great guy to talk to. He is a music industry vet and I met him via Bert Holman, Allman Brothers’ manager. Alan was the booker for the Capitol Theate in Passaic, NJ for years. It […]

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Most recent column

I wrote an extra column last week. They asked me to do that because they ahd a 10th anniversary celebration and made the site free for a week. Sorry I didn’t that out to you all. It’s because we were away. Anyhow, this tale should be familiar to you by know. This is a slightly […]

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Videos from the trip

This is Anna being wooed and swept away by the entire wait staff of the little restaurant where we had dinner our first night, in guiyang. Driving out of Kaili to the South, you go through this light industrial zone and then into the countryside, which is gorgeous and looks like this: Everyone wants Anna […]

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Let the Guizhou pictures begin

God, I have so many great pictures to share. I will try to post a bunch but will start with shots form the villages we visited. The area we were is an autonomous region for Miao minority people. They are the same as the Hmong in Laos, Vietnam and other places in SE Asia. We […]

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