Daily Archives: July 2, 2008

pompidou centre, paris

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } pompidou centre, paris, originally uploaded by monkeyking. This is one of the pictures I like the … Continue reading

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Finding your local PSB/police station in Shanghai…

…can be a bitch if you haven’t done it already. Here’s what I found in the course of my search. If you can’t read Chinese or cannot find someone who can, this isn’t going to be of much use to … Continue reading

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Where have all the gringos (of Miami) gone

Just caught this on iconoculture.com regarding the demographic changes in Miami. As someone that has only been there on vacation, the Cuban and Latino culture was less obvious, mostly because we were in South Beach with tourists from around the … Continue reading

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Movies I’ve watched: Youth Without Youth (2007, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)

This was certainly one of the more thought-provoking films that I’ve seen in awhile. Made in a sort of magical realist style, the film tells the story of an aging Romanian professor Dominic Matei (Tim Roth) who miraculously becomes rejuvenated … Continue reading

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BBC: Shanghai to curb rights of dissidents during Olympics?

Saw this report from last week on the BBC Chinese news web page, which is blocked in China but which I finally got to work using the web proxy Gumm.org A Hong Kong human rights organizations said that Fa Lun … Continue reading

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