Still rolling in….

Mr Jon Kessler pulls himself away from Wine Spectator to write in: "Couldn't let this go without a entry or two from Wall Street: China Cat China Chat Mainland Musings Sino Wino Kracker Writes Kanji Tofo ain't no 'ho foo WSJizizzle…
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Jay Gindoff in da House

Jay Gindoff came through here on Sunday evening. I picked him up at the airport, which was a fiasco already reported on, I believe. Then we had dinner downtown. Next day he and I tooled around Beijing. We went to a frigid Tianamen…
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More pictures

You can at least get a sense of jacob's movement and his whole class hopping around from the one pic. You also have eli and his buddies Race Cameron and Gabriel Chi (Japanese mom, Chinese dad). We came home last Saturday night…
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We Passed

Whoopdee damn doo, we both passed the Driver’s License test this morning. We studied a bit more than last time and it paid off. I would say that Becky studied quite a bit more than me. I just couldn’t pull myself away to sit down and…
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Wow, Yangshou!

Hey all. we are still in Yangshou. i am writing from an internet cafe, surrounded by chinese in their 20s playing online games and smoking away. I am sipping iced green tea. They are all drinking coke in bottles. Also, the letters are worn off…
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No sheep penis for break fast ths year, Maplewood

Carrie W. wrote: You, Becky and the children are invited to break fast at my house after temple on Yom Kippur.Please bring frozen sheep penis and goose blood. I made up a recipe that will go nicely w/ bagels, whitefish, etc. (sliced and…
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It’s A National Holiday All Week, so the blog will slow down big time…

Eli on his way to Super Movers camp this morning and with Super Girl, his classmate Angela. It is National Day today, celebrating the founding of the People’s Republic of China and the whole country is on vacation all week. For…
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Happy New Year

Yom Tov, G'sai G'sun, Good Yuntiv and all that good stuff to my Hebraic friends. Happy Day Off from school to the rest of you. To answer the question many have asked, yes, we are going to services. There is a Reconstructionist Congregation that…
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Biking through Beijing and Mongolian Hot Pot

I spent the afternoon with Jack, the great tour guide we met last April through our friend Arlene Stein. We did a bike tour through Beijing, for a story I'm working on for the Journal, actually. I did a similar your with him in the spring and…
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Four more photos

Now these pictures crack me up. As I've said before, these public exercise things are all over beijing and the kids love the, especially jacob. There were a bunch of peopl ereally using them hard on Sunday, including an old lady and…