That’s What Love Will Make You Do
Woodie Alan performing Little Milton's "That's What Love Will Make You Do" last Saturday, November 2 at the Orchard, Beijing. The video is shaky and some of my neighbors may be embarrassed by their dancing, but I like the performance. You have…
Farmfest
Mrs. Shanen's Bagels also has an organic farm not too far away. I wrote about it in my column about food safety and organics around here. Every year they have a farm fest there. It's a nice event, pretty low-key and with some nice family friendly…
Eli’s art
All Eli wants to do is draw, with occasional stops to play on the computer. He was really going wild around halloween. I snapped these pics of some of my favorites. Look closely at the top one.
You never know…
...what you'll stumble across around here. They're putting spanking new streetlights up on the dusty road that runs by the under-construction convention center. That's nice. They left them just laying out in the street as they get ready to go…
LIke I said about change…
I returned to the Sunhe Market I wrote about in my column about a week later. I went with Hou ayi, who cooks, to buy vegetables and fruit and other stuff. Kersten, news assistant from WSJ who wen tout there with me to translate, was shocked…
Anna soccer
What can I say? the Magpies are pretty darn cute.
Good I wasn’t picked
Lots of propaganda here. I don't think I would have been too comfortable with this.
Mail from Chinese readers
Since they started putting my email address with my Chinese language column, I have been getting more email from Chinese readers and they are pretty interesting sometimes. Here are some samples.Alan, I like your Guitar World works!I wish I was…
Halloween
Man, I have a lot to catch up on. I am currently a bit stumped n what to write for my next column. I have several in the works that are still looking like longer term projects. I need to bear down on one. I do find that the more I write up here,…