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Entries from August 2008

Twitter Updates for 2008-07-31

July 31st, 2008 · No Comments

@marcvanderchijs your site is blocked here, but viewable through proxy… #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-07-30

July 30th, 2008 · No Comments

holy shit “Straw Dogs” is so fucking violent. Looking at Dustin Hoffman in another light now. #
@joonian because Chian film journal was a snazzier title than chinese diaspora film journal or chinese film journal. Some domains were taken #

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Movies I’m Watching: Edward Yang’s Terrorizers (恐怖分子)

July 30th, 2008 · No Comments

《恐怖分子》影评:杨德昌的手术刀-搜狐娱乐 via kwout

Edward Yang is, by any measure, a master of the cinema. Like his other films from this era (late 1980s and early 1990s), Terrorizers is a merciless dissection of the lives of the Taiwanese urban middle-class. I’ve been reading a Chinese review/essay on the film, and I think it brings out some interesting [...]

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Some snippets of recent Shanghai life

July 30th, 2008 · No Comments

I saw a guy in the subway that had a shirt that said “I speak English. Do you?” I looked at him for a moment, and dismissed it as just another
Chinglish shirt. He then walked over to me and was about to hand me a flyer for Wall Street English. I waved him away. One [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2008-07-29

July 29th, 2008 · No Comments

maya deren loved cats: great minds do think alike dont they #
@sagebrennan that’s kinda funny #
my blog was called a “a Chinese site”….nice. #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-07-28

July 28th, 2008 · No Comments

i am loving “Faye Grim”–i remember wanting to see Henry Fool when it came out 1997 but never got around to it. FG is the post 9-11 sequel. #
must fire up the BT to get more acquainted with the ouevre of Hal Hartley #
have to say that Parker Posey is a woman whose charm will [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2008-07-27

July 27th, 2008 · No Comments

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/worklife/02/05/work.spouse/index.html platonic flirting at work good for productivity? #
http://tinyurl.com/655ggq 在社会上高不成低不就 待业大学生闲出心病 #
@Chinkerfly don’t you have any sedatives on you #

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So this is how we talk about Tiananmen Square

July 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I was just reading through a blog post from the Phoenix TV reporter Lvqiu Luwei (闾丘露薇) writes about the changes that occurred in Beijing as a result of the Olympics. She hopes that the changes, whether it be better signs and transportation to more polite people and better service attitude, will become permanent. Fair [...]

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IMG_0289_edit (le chat orange)

July 27th, 2008 · No Comments

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IMG_0289_edit (le chat orange), originally uploaded by monkeyking.

A recent picture of one of my four-legged roommates, Chen Xiaohu (陈小虎).

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Japanese art/performance at Lounge 18

July 27th, 2008 · No Comments

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I am still not that sure about what the purpose of this Japanese-styled night of performances and art was. We had some food, which was not Japanese, but was tasty nonetheless, [...]

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