Catching up with Tom Davis
Many people have asked me over the past 18 months or so if I am in touch with my friend Tom Davis, who had to leave Beijing our first year here due to the horrible illness and subsequent death of his wife Cathy. We have been in and out of touch…
Jackson Wagner at Farm Aid
I thought this was cool and worthy of post. I'm both jealous and proud of Rick and Jackson.Friend Rick Wagner writes from Maplewood:I took Jackson to Farm Aid... we saw the Allmans, Derek Trucks Band, Warren Haynes, Neil Young and a bunch more.…
An epic day for Woodie Alan
Saturday was an epic day in the life of Woodie Alan. We double dipped with an afternoon gig and then an evening performance.The afternoon was at an outdoor street festival on a cool, rapidly gentrifying hutong street. All the photos below are…
Beijing hip hop
I know the guys who do this. some pretty funny stuff.
R.I.P. Alfred Peet
Been meaning to post something on this for a while.. I grabbed this from an insane website --www.coffeegeekcom. Reading sites like this is always a good reminder that no matter how nutty I feel a subject, I am a piker compared to the real…
Beijing Blues
A Woodie Alan original. Solos and final verse only.
Dulwich Photo Day 2007
Nothing like some scruffy American kids in British best-dressed uniforms. Eli loves it. Those of you who knew me on Guarino Rd., imagine me riding my little green Schwinn to Davis School in this getup.
Happy New year
Happy new year to everyone. We just came back from very nice, pretty crowded services. The kids have a lot of buds in the little Jewish world now, thanks to Sunday School and they actually sort of enjoy it. it is our third Rosh Hashanah in Beijing…
Last column
New one tomorrow...THE EXPAT LIFEBy ALAN PAUL A Capital Reminder of WhatIt Means to Be an AmericanAugust 31, 2007My family is nearing the end of a three-week-plus visit to the U.S. We have driven more than 2,000 miles in a rented minivan, from…
"Helpless"
Woodie Alan with special guest Pete Schloss.On my birthday, 9-7, at the Orchard