About AlanPaul
Alan Paul is the author of the New York Times bestseller One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band and the acclaimed memoir Big in China. He is also a singer and guitarist who fronts the Big in China band and Friends of the Brothers, the premier tribute to the Allman Brothers Band.
Entries by AlanPaul
It’s so weird sometimes… and Yom Kippur thoughts
Jacob ran off after school with his Aussie friend Felix, both of whose parents work at the school. Eli is across the street at the home of Brendan, his Hong Kong Chinese/Brit pal, along with Maurits, his German-speaking Austrian- Dutch bud. The three of them are the best of friends. So I came home and […]
Hey, I can see the site!
Hey it’s a miracle. I can suddenly see the site. i don’t know why or how or if it will last. But it looks pretty good! I was surfing around some basketball sites and suddenly realized I was on a blogspot site (Russ Bengsten, former Slam editors — http://twentythreenine.blogspot.com/). so I figured I would see […]
Exploding pythons…
You’ve got to read this. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/college/sfl-105pythongator,0,6131995.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines&track=mostemailedlink
Exploding pythons…
You’ve got to read this. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/college/sfl-105pythongator,0,6131995.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines&track=mostemailedlink
Holy Rosary Dances with the Devil and more from the mailbag…
Delaware Dave writes in:Fat Al,Sorry that the Yanks went down. No sleep lost in Wilmington over that one.Glad that you caught the end of the Steelers. Initial report is that Big Benhas a hyperextended knee, looked like it may have been a ACL to thisneonatologist. Watching the winning kick go through the uprights at 12:30AM […]
Like the Yankees, we gave a valiant effort but failed.
We had our driver’s license tests at 10 am this morning. Mr. Dou drove us out to the big P.R.C. office of Traffic Safety compliance and Road Rules with us cramming in the back seat on the 40-minute drive. We did not bring the books on our great Yangshou trip and just barely cracked them […]
Cousin Danny wades into the original unwinnable "War On…"
I looked at this picture of my cousin Danny traveling the U.S./ Mexican border with a SWAT team in search of drug smuggler sand I felt two primary emotions – thrilled for Danny, because I know he loves this kind of shit; and utterly depressed at the utter and complete folly of the whole escapade. […]
Pictures of yangshou
A complete write up of the trip is coming, but here are some pictures to begin to give a sense of the incredible otherworldly countryside. The picutres of Jacob in the hat and of me with anna on my back were taken on a tea plantation outside Guilin. The others are all around Yangshou.
First pictures from our trip to Guilin
As I said originally, it was a national holiday so there were many, many Chinese tourists, especially the first few days. The holiday ended on Friday — and people went back to work on Saturday! — so it slowed down. At the airport in beijing, we were again treated like celebrities and this large group […]