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February 4, 2010
anouk van dijk & falk richter – TRUST
The set is moody, gloomy, dark, chrome chairs and black leather sofa, matching seats, a stylist-industrial minimalist clutter extending back …
January 31, 2010
reading: g. whitney azoy – buzkashi – game and power in afghanistan
g. whitney azoy – buzkashi
January 21, 2010
reading: christopher i. beckwith – empires of the silk road
christopher i. beckwith – empires of the silk road
January 21, 2010
reading: iranophobia – the logic of an israeli obsession – haggai ram
iranophobia – haggai ram
January 10, 2010
Reading: Feng Jicai – Voices from the Whirlwind
feng jicai – voices from the whirlwind
January 7, 2010
Reading: Katherine Pratt Ewing – Stolen Honor – Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin
katherine pratt ewing – stolen honor
January 5, 2010
i’d dance on your grave but i’ll piss on it instead
It’s not often I’m taken with glee to read of the death of someone. During the years I’ve blogged, many …
December 22, 2009
solstice
Taoism struggles against the cultural preference for the “light.” The Tao Te Ching, especially, champions the low, the dark. …
November 3, 2009
Reading… a 2nd anniversary
My reading the last year has not been of either the volume, nor the breadth of the previous, in no …
October 25, 2009
orgy of tolerance
To have your idols disappoint. It is a delicious sensation. And probably inevitable, necessary.
My Friday Antwerp wanderings, despite the sublime …
October 11, 2009
Ath
An adventure yesterday, south-west of Bruxelles for around 30 minutes. A train with Gala, past a town called Silly. No, …
October 10, 2009
antwerpen
A train to Antwerpen with no ticket despite my attempts to buy one. Thirty minutes in which I think upon …
October 8, 2009
SOIT – We Was Them
To start at the end. Or, an ending. Somewhere past an hour, Ivan and Harold (I think) sit on the …
October 4, 2009
i have a futon
The last time I saw my futon was, I think, early last year when I temporarily removed from storage all …
September 30, 2009
hilary
“…and when terror strikes just take a deep breath and remember that life is just one long learning experience. …
September 26, 2009
sorayama nawa shibari
Last night with the wonderful Katrin, I was introduced to an artist I’d not thought upon for years, and likely …
August 24, 2009
i went to bruxelles… the weekend…
Ballet Friday, wandering the streets after and eating a lot. Mussels missed, but waffles, chocolate, pommes frites, beer, all yes. …
August 20, 2009
i went to bruxelles…
I was possessed by the desire to go to Brussels on Sunday last week, and in a fit of unusualness, …
August 17, 2009
save the vca
It is a long time ago now, camping on the lawn outside the front of Victorian College of the Arts …
August 8, 2009
häuslichkeit
I vacuum. Much hair. Häuslichwissenschaft. The grey fluff is, I suppose, mostly my skin. Grey and red. Occasional haferflocken. The …
August 5, 2009
a chronology of burnt-out corpses
Mainly that I laughed and snorted when I read the title and looked at the familiar map of Berlin drowned …
July 19, 2009
Gunter Kroemer
Over much of this year I’ve been working with Christian Ender on rebuilding the code of one of his documentary …
July 5, 2009
one… eins
A year ago.
A train from Frankfurt lulling me out of the delirium and endurance of 30 hours or more, I …
June 16, 2009
Reading: Alexandra Richie – Faust’s Metropolis – A History of Berlin
alexandra richie – faust’s metropolis
June 1, 2009
Reading: Zhao Ziyang – Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang
zhao ziyang – prisoner of the state
May 27, 2009
Reading: Barry Cunliffe – Europe Between the Oceans 9000 BC – AD 1000
europe between the oceans – barry cunliffe
May 26, 2009
gewitterregen über bötzow brauerei
Summer, it has been decided will be stormy with displays of thunder and lightning. Much blowing of wind also. It …
May 17, 2009
buchstabenmuseum
I’m not sure where I stumbled upon this, but it wasn’t so long ago and immediately thought of someone whose …
May 10, 2009
daniel is reading…
judith butler – undoing gender
susan sontag – styles of radical will
deleuze and guattari – a thousand plateaus
…
May 8, 2009
sonne um abenddämmerung… mehr regen
Tired. Allzu viele Wartezeiten für Termine. Allzu viele Termine. Bei jedem Schritt, Abhängigkeit. Mehr ich weiß nicht, wie zu sagen.
…
May 8, 2009
super dickmann (and his ’s)
Yes, really we laughed a lot.
super dickmann’s … (super dickmann’s what?)
May 1, 2009
der 1. mai in berlin
I should really make a new category for Berlin…
…
Berlin.
I should really get off Movable Type so when I decide to …
April 12, 2009
a book is living
My sofa has a variously shaded crocheted lilac blanket I like to lie on, or curl up under, wrap around …
April 6, 2009
blog stuff
I shouldn’t be on my laptop today; I am bad. Working around 12 and sometimes up to 16 hours a …
March 3, 2009
digging up the hof
When the sign on the door said please clean up the Hof and put your bicycles in the cellar, and …
February 25, 2009
double happiness
Two excellent things in the last couple of days I shall endeavour to celebrate. Perhaps with wine and peanut butter. …
February 22, 2009
on’s guro fairytales
Oh if only I could make art as good as this. One of those “uuhhh… why didn’t I think of …
February 18, 2009
some days of snow over the bötzow brauerei
Lina returned. Monday night via Hermannplatz. I remember the M41 does not lead towards me. The last few days have …
February 14, 2009
we are enemies… secrettechnology
Discovered on a mac forum that I’ve been on for years, and the best game I’ve played in years also, …
February 12, 2009
nach dem schnee… ganz kalt…
I borrowed Lina’s camera. I’d forgotten what it’s like to have a good camera, one that can zoom and frame …
February 11, 2009
starker schnee-regen… oder maßiger…
More of a dusting of water frozen out of the air. Lina arrived from Amsterdam, it rained and the slate …
February 7, 2009
biblio-smut
When I have my pirate castle I shall also have a library like this. I’m not sure which, maybe all …
February 7, 2009
Bötzow-Brauerei
Quite often I look out my window, across the warm brick expanse of… I wonder what it is, a vast …
January 24, 2009
women in mac
I was watching Welcome to Macintosh a few nights ago, becoming engaged in a mindless indulgence in Apple, I do …
January 22, 2009
a retrospective
Sitting in my lounge with Daniel talking about dance and my old works, many of which I am still very …
January 21, 2009
things to do at silverfuture this weekend
Because I haven’t been there for oh so too long, and I need a bit of queer drunkenness… and books …
January 18, 2009
Annemarie Schwarzenbach
And so I discovered Annamarie Schwarzenbach, who to a certain kind of Berlinerin is probably quite famous, yet in English …
January 12, 2009
Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is not self-defence – it’s a war crime
This letter of attorneys and academics appeared in the Times of London on Sunday. I suggest that all bloggers who …
January 4, 2009
re.act.feminism – performancekunst der 1960er und 70er jahre heute
Still dark, before 6am, lying in bed, the clouded sky lighting the city and me already with coffee and reading, …
January 3, 2009
Top Ten (Plus 1) Good News Stories in the Muslim World, 2008 (That Nobody Noticed)
Cheerful Saturday morning reading I thought I’d post in its entirety, though I do think anyone who has the slightest …
January 1, 2009
my new house…
Moving again, nearby, a hobo attic suspended above Berlin. Daniel, Gala and Vanessa for Silverster dinner, Suisse cheese fondue, roast …
December 27, 2008
volkspark friedrichshain
I thought it was a park to walk through, but it was a graveyard. It is the Alter Friedhof der …
December 25, 2008
weihnacht…
… with Daniel, Gala and Jörges, and breathtaking Weihnacht decorations, much food, Wieners, drinking… more of the same today.
satan …
December 23, 2008
schlachtensee again…
Last time I was here it was autumn. Today with Gala, the day after her birthday, cold but again blue …
December 14, 2008
reading: jeanette winterson – oranges are not the only fruit
jeanette winterson – oranges are not the only fruit
December 3, 2008
departure…
A few small things to remember by. A room in a house on a street called Borstal. A windmill visible …
December 1, 2008
the beach to seasalter
Avoiding rain by staying in bed with cups of tea, chocolate, various cheeses of distinct smelliness, perhaps to have arisen …
November 30, 2008
reading: wildwood – a journey through trees – roger deakin
wildwood – a journey through trees – roger deakin
November 29, 2008
walking whitstable to canterbury
Various rains, mists, hazes, dampness the entire day, and we still decided to walk from Whitstable to Canterbury, some 11 …
November 28, 2008
reading: jeanette winterson – lighthousekeeping
jeanette winterson – lighthousekeeping
November 27, 2008
alleys, a pirate shack…
Alleys for fishermen and harbour girls. The greyness creates a completely different light here and sounds from the distance travel …
November 26, 2008
further along the beach… and a castle
Another walk yesterday, after two hours of yoga, inadvertently, I just pottered through things I haven’t done for a while, …
November 25, 2008
along the beach…
I went for a walk yesterday, in search of fish and seafood for dinner, but arrived too late, too much …
November 24, 2008
oysters, cheese, snowing somewhat
The customs inspector at Flughaven Tegel was most concerned at my obvious overstaying of the three month tourist visa, stamped …
November 21, 2008
ich werde pirat
Saturday morning I shall rise at an unfortunately early hour and stumble towards Flughaven Tegel. I hope I go the …
November 19, 2008
transgender day of remembrance
For any queer trans* Berliners who read me, there is a meeting tomorrow night 6pm, at my favourite bar, Silverfuture, …
November 12, 2008
landwehrkanal
Along the Landwehrkanal on my bicycle going west, some blue sky and sun today, though cold. I kept riding till …
November 2, 2008
dinner & thwarted by a dog
The firetrucks took so long to arrive. The police were there first, and then more. Then an ambulance, all useful …
October 29, 2008
mehlwurm
In the opposite direction to my original intent, Alex Platz, down Alte Jacobstr, often an unmemorable street, at one intersection …
October 25, 2008
ich habe deutsche gelernt… ein bisschen
Oh it’s finished. A month of learning German five hours a day, grammar grammar grammar… my brain hurt from all …
October 20, 2008
lustgarten und der palast der republic
It was an assignment for German class, to wander from the Goethe Institut to Hackescher Markt and then across the …
October 19, 2008
where i was last night…
When people ask me why I came to Berlin, I say, well partly for the dance, and partly for living. …
October 16, 2008
Reading… an anniversary
A year ago in the briefest of lines, I began keeping a list of the books I’ve digested… burp.
What remains, …
October 14, 2008
reading: iain m banks – feersum endjinn (5th time), the algebraist (2nd time)
iain m banks – the algebraist
iain m banks – feersum endjinn
October 12, 2008
from nikolassee to grunewaldsee via schlachtensee
Much welcome distraction these last few days as a visit from my delightful hobo has kept me both awake and …
October 12, 2008
Reading: Walter Benjamin – Berlin Childhood around 1900
The last few days I have enjoyed the rather delectable company of a hobo formerly from Berlin, now residing in …
October 3, 2008
walking in graefe-kiez
Still I am thinking of my walk to ballet each morning and how oh perhaps tomorrow or next week I …
October 2, 2008
twitter.com/francesdath
Somehow after all this time, being slow to adopt new things, I decided to get on twitter, mainly so I …
September 30, 2008
where i am…
Oh a long pause… oops… not from lack of things to say, just fallen out of the habit. So, for …
September 24, 2008
kreuzberg 10967
I have moved. A home. For a while, my own room, a bed, unpacked suitcases, books on top of a …
September 18, 2008
englisch buchhandlungen aus berlin
(I was waiting until I’d visited a few more bookshops, but I’ve been distracted with writing applications, and know it …
September 9, 2008
some u-bahnhof & s-bahnhof i have visited
I’ve visited many more and find them all delightful and yummy thick ceramic tiles and iron girders with fat rivets …
September 7, 2008
reading: books from zürich…
Lacking new reading, and I am suffering, I have been opening my suitcase of books from my life in Zürich …
September 4, 2008
köpenickenstr wagenburg
I’ll try and remember where I began. It was last night. Was I searching for something for someone? Was I …
August 31, 2008
rosa luxemburg platz
Wandering around the Volksbühne in the evening on the way to eat Burritos. A new bookshop discovered, much laziness, food …
August 29, 2008
revalerstr 99
This week a haze has descended on me, it is easier to stay in bed safe in the folds of …
August 26, 2008
kreuzberg… s036
Looking for… turned around exiting the u-bahn, dampness and grey Berlin wears comfortably. Some cities resent their weather, others, Guangzhou …
August 16, 2008
chuang tzu again…
About a week ago, a quote from Chuang Tzu turned up on The Useless Tree (another shortly after explaining just …
August 14, 2008
small adventures in the black canal
I keep hitting my head on this when I stand up, so I had to move the chair. mmm… comfortable …
August 12, 2008
reading: leslie feinburg – stone butch blues
Yes, I finally bought it, on a trip to Prinz Eisenherz, oh such a joy to find this, and then …
August 10, 2008
von freiburg nach berlin…
Thick carpets of tall brown grass and wild flowers, tiny floating like halos above on gentle seductive hills. I wanted …
August 6, 2008
schwarzwald
Only a bit of it, really. From Annaplatz out and left to the end of the street, past the Turkish …
July 30, 2008
von wien westbahnhof nach zürich hbf
Some books I read small pieces of in my room in Vienna. Susan Sontag’s Regarding the Pain of Others, a …
July 26, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 10)
I’ve been meaning to say something about my apartment, I mean to say, where I’m staying. The woman who let …
July 24, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 8)
Wherein I discover that ImPulsTanz knows about my blogging of settlement and having revealed as such in their newsletter, I …
July 21, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 5) (and sunday also)
umm… Supermodels. Catwalks. Shopping lists. Hate. Ambivalence. Whispering. Not whispering loudly enough. Microphones. Costume changes. Love. Happiness. Drugs. Music. This …
July 18, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 4)
So perhaps I admit I’m going to blog about this most days…
Somehow I found myself doing yoga at WUK in …
July 17, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 3)
Today I ate dates and fresh peaches for lunch. And a banana. And had dinner at Der Wiener Deewan, mmm …
July 16, 2008
impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 2)
I ate prunes today. I went to find coffee, and found myself with chocolate croissant and mélange in a dainty …
July 14, 2008
von berlin hbf nach wien sued
Early rising, 9 hours from Berlin to Vienna, through Czechoslovakia, I’ve never been there before. Now I’ve seen several train …
July 14, 2008
gute aussichten – junge deutsche fotografie
My last full day in Berlin, an afternoon adventure with someone who takes rather splendid photographs herself of derelict amusement …
July 11, 2008
s-/u-bahn,m-bus/tram
Up… down… up… down… walking, thinking, sitting on the s- or u-bahn, watching the world letting my thoughts drift, Berlin, …
July 7, 2008
Juedisches Museum Berlin
I went to the Juedische Museum Berlin today.
juedisches museum berlin – 1
juedisches museum berlin – 2
juedisches museum …
July 6, 2008
ADL-SYD-FRA-BER
Adelaide to Sydney, upgraded to business class due to length of leg, and three seats to myself, the opportune westerly …
June 25, 2008
emile. blog. eurodisney.
Only this to say, about time. Emile is blogging at eurodisney.biz
emile zile – eurodisney.biz
June 21, 2008
saint uncle judith… jude… i mean judy
I’m not sure of the trail that led me to spending some of an afternoon reading interviews with Judith Butler, …
June 13, 2008
jan dunning
When the Liberals won the elections in 2004, my only consolation was that shortly after I departed for a few …
June 12, 2008
chingiz aitmatov
I only recently discovered him, and was looking forward to reading The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, when …
June 8, 2008
Reading: again… some for the fifth time…
Suffering from a paucity of new books the last two weeks, and packing mine all away in preparation for inevitable …
June 8, 2008
blog…
A notably slow Sunday, cleaning, washing dishes, reading The Subject of Gender that I am already certain will be on …
June 6, 2008
Reading: Harriet Evans – The Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China
harriet evans – the subject of gender
June 5, 2008
Reading: Julian Burnside – Watching Brief: Reflections on Human Rights, Law and Justice
julian burnside – watching brief
June 3, 2008
Protected: making our bodies home
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May 27, 2008
buzkashi, self-portrait & laptop
When I was a student, I would trundle up to Melbourne Uni and on weekends and holidays hole up the …
May 14, 2008
Reading: Liao Yiwu – The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up
Normally I say nothing about the books I’m reading, I have a superstition that to do so would cause me …
May 14, 2008
Reading: Antonio Giustozzi – Koran, Kalashnikov and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan 2002-2007
koran, kalashnikov and laptop
May 13, 2008
pestilence days 15-17
I’ve been editing DVDs this week, first all the people i can remember sleeping with…, then monadologie, and in the …
April 20, 2008
Reading: Sidney Perkowitz – Universal Foam: The Story of Bubbles from Cappuccino to the Cosmos
sydney perkowitz – universal foam
April 17, 2008
pestilence day 12
Inadvertently, Daniel and i have spent all of this week working on the one scene that came from Kristeva’s abjection, …
April 1, 2008
sid eats mouse
Daniel fed Sid on Friday. I’ve never seen Sid eat before, it was quite beautiful. Also, Sid is ready to …
March 22, 2008
reading: business cards – the art of saying hello
business cards – the art of saying hello
March 21, 2008
Reading: Daniel Ladinski Trans. – The Gift: Poems by Hafiz, The Great Sufi Master
hafiz – the gift. trans. daniel ladinsky
March 21, 2008
Reading: Michel Foucault – Madness and Civilisation
michel foucault – madness and civilisation
March 6, 2008
Reading: Taliban – Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia – Ahmed Rashid
taliban – ahmed rashid
March 3, 2008
monadologie day 46
For those who count, days 43 through 45 were production days at Napier St and some 23 minutes of performing …
February 25, 2008
Reading: Susan Mann – The Talented Women of the Zhang Family
susan mann – the talented women of the zhang family
February 25, 2008
Reading: Rosanne Klass – Land of the High Flags: Afghanistan When the Going Was Good
rosanne klass – land of the high flags
February 17, 2008
Reading: Anne Fausto-Sterling – Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
anne fausto-sterling- sexing the body
February 12, 2008
sorry
“Today we honour the Indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history.
We reflect on their past …
February 5, 2008
waiting at the train station
Half a million people stuck in the Guangzhou Train Station, over 100 trains carrying thousands of people each stranded in …
February 4, 2008
新年快乐！﹣hoping the rats are warm on the trains
This is not Guangzhou Train Station. This is Huanshi Xi Lu, quite far in front of the station. News from …
February 1, 2008
reading: william gibson & bruce sterling – the difference engine
william gibson + bruce sterling – the difference engine
January 27, 2008
more feeds and things … and blogrolls
A little bit preoccupied today and doing busywork (yes, is a word), and somehow stumbled upon several rather cool blogs …
January 26, 2008
Reading: Charles Stross – The Atrocity Archives
charles stross – the atrocity archives
January 23, 2008
Blog for Choice day
Today marks thirty-five years since Roe vs. Wade. A number of my favourite blogs including Feministing and (en)gender posted on …
January 13, 2008
reading: julia serano – whipping girl – a transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity
julia serano – whipping girl
January 13, 2008
reading: lois may – transgenders and intersexuals – everything you ever wanted to know but couldn’t think of the question
lois may – transgenders and intersexuals
December 31, 2007
Reading: Jin Xing – Shanghai Tango (A Memoir)
jin xing – shanghai tango (a memoir)
December 21, 2007
monadologie – week 2
A rather crazy five days for me, dramas with friends far away and then Lily, Bonnie’s sister coming into the …
December 14, 2007
when i decompiled the source code of my feed reader it said, satan satan satan!!!
Obviously, I thought it was funny…
(Later on I felt a sense of dread…)
666 satanic feed reader
December 9, 2007
Reading: Norman Page – Auden and Isherwood – The Berlin Years
norman page – auden and isherwood – the berlin years
November 22, 2007
kunst and the greens
Three years ago I was so happy to be leaving Australia immediately after the nauseating reelection of that repulsive clique …
November 18, 2007
november 20
This Tuesday is International Day of Transgender Remembrance. I should be dwelling on Happy Things today but it’s been a …
November 17, 2007
reading: terry pratchett…
terry pratchett – mort
terry pratchett – the colour of magic
terry pratchett – equal rites
terry pratchett – …
November 2, 2007
Protected: twiddling of thumbs
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October 31, 2007
whuhappnd?
ummm…
Big silence, no?
Well we have performed all over the acreage of metropolitan Adelaide (and I kept thinking if I was …
October 29, 2007
reading: kerstin finger – tape: an excursion through the world of adhesive tapes
tape: an excursion through the world of adhesive tapes
October 22, 2007
daniel’s secret town
Walking through town last week, Daniel took me into another one of the city’s abandoned construction sites. Adelaide has an …
October 11, 2007
1010011010 the number of the beast
Having realised I could count up to 1024, in binary no less, using just my fingers and thumbs, it’s surprising …
October 10, 2007
mediocrity
Due to the content of my Ignition 7 – Gender Studies performance, all the people i can remember sleeping with…, …
October 5, 2007
bacon dog
I was raving a delirious morning, cold clammy sweat all through class, not quite feverish but something unpleasant going on …
October 4, 2007
ignition 7 – gender studies
Australian Dance Theatre presents
Ignition 7 – Gender Studies
Ignition returns to stages throughout metropolitan Adelaide during October for its seventh season. …
September 26, 2007
中秋节快乐！！！
mmmm … mooncakes …
green tea mooncake with one yolk
hong kong elegant flavour
July 3, 2007
Housewives on Fire
A conversation before the show: girl-a, “wanna sit in the front row?”, girl-b, “nah I don’t wanna be that close …
May 30, 2007
stir-fried poultry
I had some time spare yesterday amidst the stream of meetings and appointments, so went on a hot date with …
April 29, 2007
it returns to wilderness
Letter-hyphen-town has been what most cities I’ve lived in have been reduced to since Emile in Zürich shortened it to …
April 23, 2007
new photography in guangzhou
All month I’ve been meaning to blog this, but attack of laziness and other things to keep me occupied meant …
April 9, 2007
cape paterson eating and beach slatternliness
Eat eat eat eat drink eat sleep beach sleep eat eat sleep eat drink sleep beach sleep eat eat eat …
March 11, 2007
something about who?
Miriam Rivera a couple of years ago upset a bunch of straight blokes, then rode the reality-tv thing all the …
March 8, 2007
… and death
Emile sent me possibly the most perfect condolences card after I told him about Jean Baudrillard dying yesterday. It made …
March 7, 2007
jean baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard died.
I’m so utterly devastated. He has been the single most important thinker, writer, philosopher for me, in my …
March 5, 2007
everything that has been said before about dance
Lining the walls of Chunky Move’s foyer are vast placards of performances, and above the sofas, those shows are the …
March 1, 2007
secret service
John Jasperse has been in town the last couple of weeks, making a work with Becky Hilton and jodi Meinick, …
February 26, 2007
when in doubt … cliché and generalise
Two almost opposite examinations of art or culture came from Ou Ning’s blog today, the first a textless photographic documentary, …
February 24, 2007
it’s all about 冯三七 … i mean feng37 … i mean john
A couple of weeks ago, John Kennedy – also known as contemporary Chinese poetry translator Feng37 – thought that …
February 24, 2007
Protected: saturday tranny blogging
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February 18, 2007
新年快乐! 恭喜发财! – hoping that meat prices don’t go up
Yes, I am missing not being in Guangzhou, or joining hundreds of millions on the country’s trains. So, from Mary …
February 11, 2007
sunday tranny-blogging (and spitting in china)
What is it about Sundays that seem to cause a blog upwelling of a more cerebral nature than during the …
February 11, 2007
the meaning of everything
So far in 2007, I’ve started well over a score of books, and finished no more than a handful, well …
February 10, 2007
Protected: revenge of the lezzie shemale feminists
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February 1, 2007
Protected: god made you a boy
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January 31, 2007
Music Furthest From the Sea
Album of the week for anyone who loves central Asian music, especially the kind that gets blasted across bazaars, from …
January 28, 2007
what calliope did…
There is a stack of books next to my bed in Adelaide, mostly instilling disappointment in the novel as a …
January 11, 2007
我不知道我是什么性别
Happy reading for me this afternoon from Mary Ann in Shenzhen, who writes one of the best blogs coming out …
January 8, 2007
Protected: miscellaneous tranny stuff … coz we rule
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December 23, 2006
seasons greetings
A Jesuit missionary named Èdouard de Gex remarked there are two kinds of Satanist, one who genuinely believes in the …
December 21, 2006
techno…blah…ti, or the meaninglessness of social networks
A while ago, I ditched a slew of social networking vampires that had ceased to have any relevance to me. …
December 19, 2006
it’s all about the money
Slagging match of the week goes to Melbourne Festival vs. The Media, wherein Robin Usher tries to sound a rhetorical …
December 12, 2006
iranian typography now
Japan design magazine PingMag has a long feature yesterday, Iranian Typography Now. It is one of the most sublime features …
December 10, 2006
stuff i read and even bookmarked in the last week
Bookmarked, that is, so I could blah on loudly here about it, in lieu of dragging myself through the warm …
December 5, 2006
super-condom tranny
I don’t really want to be ‘tranny activist’ and have to get all political and fight-for-your-rights. Or perhaps more accurately …
December 2, 2006
yeah, that’s what i think too
MySpace. What a desolate crevasse of meaninglessness, fake pseudo-friends, lowest-common-denominators in every realm of human imagination and obscenely poor coding. …
November 28, 2006
Small Arts Sector Research Project
For all the independent artists around in Melbourne this Friday, the Arts Industry Council (Victoria) has announced this meeting. Please …
November 22, 2006
liberals arts policy: go fuck yourselves
I can’t quite articulate exactly how much I want to see the Victorian Liberals hurled bodily into a swampy, fetid …
November 17, 2006
first against the wall etc …
At first I wasn’t going to blog this, you know, another smarmy round of greasy dandruff-ridden back-slapping and syphilitic self-congratulation, …
November 16, 2006
harisu gets married
One half of me is like, yeah cool look how progressive parts of Asia are for a transsexual to get …
November 15, 2006
late night filler
I thought this was supposed to be a happy fantasy…
mum queen lamp
November 12, 2006
hanging out in adelaide
The last week I’ve been in Adelaide hanging out at Leigh Warren and Dancers, something that sprung out of crush …
November 9, 2006
shit if this is gonna’ be that kind of party
Actually it took longer than the time Rumsfeld used to announce he was bailing out of the White House to …
November 8, 2006
omg!!! i look like nicky hilton
Chris who I’m staying with in Adelaide, I heard down the corridor saying to Lotte, “See? Doesn’t she look like …
November 4, 2006
la mama – does anyone take ozco seriously anymore?
A few days ago, I was talking with someone about a certain hack from the Herald Sun, whose name evades …
October 31, 2006
miss international queen 2006
I’ve been meaning to blog about this for a few days but I am lazy and self-centred. So. Finally I …
October 30, 2006
some new blogs
About a week ago I was doing something and ended up splurting “contemporary dance” Melbourne into Google Blog Search. I …
October 26, 2006
i shit on ya – sheik taj aldin
Someone recently said about a United States school kid who got hauled up by the FBI for sedition over a …
October 21, 2006
faith is a corrosive virus
A couple of days ago I was reading an article in which the manifestations of – especially fundamentalist – religion …
October 16, 2006
amazing philippine beauties 2006
Actually I know why you mostly come here and it has nothing to do with having a social conscience. You’re …
October 15, 2006
leaving adelaide
Another 5am trip to the airport and now I am back in Melbourne after almost a month in Adelaide choreographing …
October 8, 2006
berkeley china initiative
I’m not sure how much I’ll be blogging in the next week as things get mental with crush. In the …
October 6, 2006
中秋节快乐
I’ve been lucky enough to have had a couple of Mid-Autumn Festivals in Guangzhou, and yeah it’s a bit late, …
September 25, 2006
长沙刁民 changsha rogue
One of my favourite means of getting around Guangzhou since I first got over my terror of speeding death under …
September 23, 2006
the art of obliteration
Reblogging from We need money not art, the subtle, unintentional, council-approved art of erasing graffiti through semi-regular monotone blocks of …
September 4, 2006
I’m gonna jam my thumb in its butthole now!
Last night’s amusement was provided by old Season 2 dvds of South Park (thank you Cantonese dvd pirates). I was …
September 2, 2006
what i read today
For a while I kept a del.ic.ious account (last updated almost two months ago). I also used to have one …
August 26, 2006
水上人家 – river people
When I was in Hong Kong for a day in early May, as usual I went on my idea of …
August 23, 2006
asian blog awards 2006
I have no idea who nominated me for the Asian Blog Awards 2006, but I’m quite flattered; and quite amused …
August 18, 2006
广州有毒液体泄 – Guangzhou liquid inferno
There has been a large chemical leak in 天河区 Tian He District of Guangzhou, near 东圃石溪 Dongpushi Creek today. The …
August 17, 2006
东山 – guangzhou’s merchant suburb
The night in 2003 I spent walking around Dong Shan in the rain and wet heat was perhaps the night …
August 16, 2006
savage formosa
National Geographic is one of those magazines like good chocolate I get breathless over when each new issue arrives in …
July 20, 2006
every transsexual is first at something
Once being first was easy, when everything hadn’t been done, lately, first is the prefix on a long chain of …
July 14, 2006
war and sport take centre stage
While having coffee with one choreographer who knows firsthand the House of Un-American Activities Commission blacklist trials that is Australian …
July 12, 2006
吴皓 hao wu released
Read all about it on Free Hao Wu.
China: Wu Hao released
Filed under: About Hao Wu, News, Nina’s blog — Feng …
July 6, 2006
a knife in the guts for danceworks
While I was wandering in my lederhosen across the alps of western Yunnan, Arts Victoria announced they would not be …
June 26, 2006
korean law ruling allows change of sex
During the weeks I ventured west into the mountains, Korea’s Supreme Court was debating whether to permit male-to-female transsexuals to …
June 19, 2006
一队夫妻只生育一孩子
A friend was in town for a day, so I subjected him to my tour of Canton, walking from where …
June 18, 2006
the turmoil ended with his death
During 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD, China didn’t celebrate forty years since the start of the Cultural Revolution, and for various reasons …
June 17, 2006
guangzhou islands, graves, dead rivers and southern barbarians
Reading maps can describe places that have vanished, ghost inscriptions of shifting fringes, more so in places where geography itself …
June 15, 2006
the world is a poorer place
Sometimes I feel as if everyone who made the world brilliant, whose lives and works simply took humanity to new …
June 13, 2006
beautiful and mysterious luoping
The vast monsoon-saturated billboard, the only unbleached colour in two days of hard-sleeper train from Kunming to Guangzhou said, “Welcome …
June 11, 2006
虎跳峡 & 玉龙雪山 tiger leaping gorge and jade dragon snow mountain
Some photos of five days I spent wandering through Tiger Leaping Gorge, some from the high trail, others from when …
May 30, 2006
transsexual law in korea and japan
A couple of articles on the current legal and cultural positions of transsexuals in Japan and Korea broadly illustrates a …
May 30, 2006
shenzhen beautiful transsexual photo studio
Having been tardy in writing about anything that attracts the most readers, and a bit of a follow-on from a …
May 30, 2006
KCR Guangzhou to Dongguan again
My once monthly trip to Hong Kong was under a leaden and saturated sky. Guangzhou and much of the province …
May 28, 2006
miss tiffany’s universe 2006
It’s that time of the year again, and in wishing to have some kind of fair competition, I neglected to …
May 27, 2006
Zizek: The Reality of the Virtual
Outside of my normal flippant abrogation of its meaning, there are not too many people for whom I genuinely reserve …
May 27, 2006
famous in haizhu
Following on from the attention 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD got in 周末画报 Modern Weekly, I spent the afternoon in Haizhu Park …
May 7, 2006
a visit to the sex market
South-East Asia’s biggest sex market that is, though I always expected Thailand, or Korea or Japan who have the first …
May 7, 2006
岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD – 春宫图 spring palace lust
When I was researching hell in Guangzhou in December last year, I picked up from the now-defunct but hitherto infamous …
May 3, 2006
粤剧 canton opera madness
A mad day of shopping for the performance, which now has a name: 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD. I’m not sure about …
April 29, 2006
we hate art and like nothing interesting
Beijing’s Dashanzi Art District which I always think of as embodying contemporary Chinese art as so much of it comes …
April 29, 2006
taipei art-punk squats
One of my favourite blogs from Taiwan is Anarchy in Taiwan or gotmahmojo who recently wrote a big piece on …
April 28, 2006
pretty good privacy
I thoroughly recommend reading this article on PGP, the introduction to PGP & GPG: Email for the Practical Paranoid, then …
April 28, 2006
still lazy (but reading like a concubine at an orgy)
I just can’t seem to get focussed on blogging at the moment, I think because my schedule is a little …
April 24, 2006
请平, 荔湾 Qingping Market and Liwan
There are certain intangible things I love about Guangzhou. Most of them are west of an imaginary and real divider …
April 23, 2006
endless city
In one of my earlier science-fiction gorges, populated mostly by Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, occasionally Philip K. Dick, and …
April 17, 2006
narcoleptic shemale attempts blog…
It started with Hanzi Smatter’s year-old piece on someone who’d got 妖 tattooed on their neck, which might mean “charming” …
April 17, 2006
supernaut is lazy (but can read…)
I’d probably be better using del.icio.us for all the stuff I read, but I found on top of keeping supernaut …
March 31, 2006
A Crab on Uranus Means You’re Loved …
… Or, no talent is no longer enough.
Last night I discovered to my horror I’m alive 30 years too late …
March 26, 2006
陈莉莉 chen lili – the face of plastic surgery
Someone said to me, “lesbians are so 90s; trannys are where it’s at now”, and I thought, “eeeee!!! once again …
March 23, 2006
释放吴皓 free hao wu
I started reading Feng 37 a few weeks ago for his endless translations of contemporary Chinese poetry, and being another …
March 11, 2006
flying again
I’m flying to Hong Kong tomorrow, and then on to Guangzhou for a residency at Park19 until the end of …
March 6, 2006
pearl river bikini party
Once, hanging out down on Shamian Island, and wanting to be, I dunno, somewhere less touristy, I saw Chairman Mao …
March 2, 2006
fuck off little britain
It was so much a part of Zürich, along with Jam, The Mighty Boosh, brot, kasse, and living in the …
February 24, 2006
reading some books
Today was a minor holiday after my 15 hour binge yesterday in DVD Studio Pro and the joy of sorting …
February 21, 2006
nothing left to do but vandalise shit
For a while I go so into playing Halo, and I mean so into it in the end I had …
February 17, 2006
my name is 张德江 Zhang Dejiang
I’ve been slowly limiting my China obsession to merely a Guangdong Province one. Mainly because China is simply too vast …
February 16, 2006
ma jian – stick your tongue out
In Taiwan a year ago, thanks to the vast library at the Taipei Artist Village I got seriously into reading …
January 9, 2006
JT LeRoy – keeping it fake
Part of me likes the great simulacrum of the media endlessly recreating its own reality until it is all simultaneously …
January 5, 2006
puk gai and other cantonese words of love
What I really like when speaking Cantonese is how it makes me sound like a slutty canto-porn star about to …
January 3, 2006
Guanyin and the Kings of Hell
It’s something like perfect timing, or maybe just the endless wash of information ebbing and flowing. The Met Museum in …
December 27, 2005
transsexuals in china
There was a kinda interesting article in China Daily, about a transsexual named Xiao Ying, who is about to have …
December 27, 2005
同志 tongzhi getting queer in china
It could have been the part of town I was hanging out in, or it could be that Guangzhou is …
December 26, 2005
i like my guangzhou underground
I have such a soft spot for the city Lonely Planet used to advise everyone to don’t-stop-just-keep-on-going-on-to-the-Real-China, and now describe …
December 15, 2005
mimi marks and stupid people
About a month ago, Mimi Marks won the Miss International Queen 2005 beauty pageant for transsexuals in Thailand, which I …
December 14, 2005
fast chicks and low cars
From one of my daily reads, we-make-money-not-art, comes my favourite combination of culture, fast cars and hot bikini chicks. Tell …
December 12, 2005
chinese mediaculture
One of the works at the 第二届广州三年展 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, the Beijing Boom Tower, has come back to me in …
December 11, 2005
a quarter of a billion – an addendum
I had some doubts this morning about posting the previous entry. And more doubts since reading R.J. Rummell’s blog more …
December 10, 2005
a quarter of a billion
I’m taking a bit of a break from blogging, the return to Australia has left me with a disembodied sense …
December 7, 2005
kcr – guangzhou to dongguan
The Kowloon to Guangzhou through train is one of the weirdest train rides I’ve been on, and it’s one I’ve …
December 5, 2005
don’t bomb us – al jazeera goes blog
Somehow, I think through one of the feeds I subscribe to, I stumbled upon what is one of the best …
December 1, 2005
a taxi ride
Going from Huanshi Dong Lu to Jiangnan Dadao, across the river and along the inner city elevated freeways that snake …
November 29, 2005
lady – the blog
Lady, the hot trash Korean transgender manufactured pop band noone has listened to but everyone has seen pictures of, now …
November 25, 2005
life
It’s been five months, an unexpected length of time for me to be in one place, almost long enough to …
November 15, 2005
flog p-blog phlog
To further my uselessness and add to the hurricane of zero-content bandwidth, and also in a shameless attempt to emulate …
November 13, 2005
art is treason
Just before I left Australia for Taiwan last year, the odious forces of imperialism, bizarrely named the Liberals got back …
November 11, 2005
China Digital Times 中国数字时代 rsf blog nomination
Two blogs from or on China have been nominated for the Reporters Sans Frontières in a field of eight (which …
November 7, 2005
x-sports in china
One of the last times I went climbing at Jiulong, was the monster Hong Kong/Southern China climbers visit to Bamboo …
November 6, 2005
more stuff i’ve been reading
I’ve been really enjoying reading from blogs lately, obviously from my daily reading list, (which has since grown longer) even …
November 4, 2005
the satanic orgy of meat
I never went to the real animal markets in Guangzhou. I arrived in the city as a vegetarian, but after …
November 3, 2005
人妖 or 变性 … how about 变性人妖
While I was trawling through the internet, scraping up stuff on Miss International Queen 2005 I found a longish entry …
November 2, 2005
miss international queen 2005
Tiffany’s second annual beauty pageant for transsexuals Miss International Queen 2005 was held in the glowing centre of the she-male …
October 31, 2005
dongxi wants stuff
I got an email a couple of days ago from the editors of the about to be published dongxi magazine. …
October 28, 2005
human writes
Twice this week I’ve been asked to give wishes, the first a list of fifteen for a magazine, and the …
October 27, 2005
太石村 taishi village – in the media
Sometimes everyone likes jumping on an event for no real reason, and forgets, ignores and generally pretends others haven’t happened. …
October 26, 2005
濁水溪公社 ltk commune is gonna rock you
During my months in Taipei, hanging out at The Wall, and pretty much constantly amazed at what a cool arts …
October 26, 2005
when jurisprudence lags behind reality
It’s a really nice idea that a post-operative transsexual can change their gender on their birth certificate and every other …
October 26, 2005
男色主题 all man all the time
More softcore fag porn from China, this time 男色主题 manse magazine, which more-or-less means “colour of man”, which sounds very …
October 26, 2005
some more stuff i’ve been reading
Serious pruning of my temporary bookmarks folder(s) is needed. The stuff on 太石村 Tai Shi Village is already out of …
October 17, 2005
it’s my happening babe and it freaks me out
More from the endless mailing lists which make me feel popular and loved by filling up hundreds of kilobytes of …
October 16, 2005
china’s changing landscape
The first time I took the KCR train from Hong Kong to Guangzhou I thought I’d arrived in Mordor. Endless …
October 13, 2005
Traditional Architecture in modern Asia
I’m not sure where the link to this came from, but anyone interested in Asian architecture will get a kick …
October 11, 2005
太石村 taishi village – so much for feeling happy
A while ago, I wrote about the 太石村 Taishi village election in Panyu District of Guangzhou, and how it was …
October 9, 2005
you must wait for democracy
China and democracy. Well there goes easy access to my website in China. The meme of China and its globally …
October 2, 2005
大山子 798 fringe arts festival
大山子or 798 Arts District in Beijing is holding its first Biennale to coincide with the Beijing Arts Festival. Wiki has …
October 2, 2005
all of china at the kennedy centre
There’s a fairly huge mega-company type cultural celebration of China going on at the moment at both the Kennedy Centre …
October 2, 2005
the absence of hong kong art
Yan at Glutter got stuck into the abysmal state of contemporary arts in Hong Kong today, with My HK Contemporary …
October 2, 2005
intellectual property for the people
I’ve been reading about two books a week, and have amassed a large-ish pile during my time in Zürich. I’ve …
October 2, 2005
architecture for dictators
Periodically Domus deals with architecture in Asia that goes beyond the mind-numbing childishness of Shanghai=good!!! and manages to make the …
October 2, 2005
royal hong kong circus tour of guangzhou
One of the events of last week which was variously setting a precedent, and ice-breaking on the level of Nixon …
September 25, 2005
a bunch of stuff i’ve been reading
Rehearsals are making it a bit difficult for me to focus here, so instead of wading through what has become …
September 22, 2005
harisu is a hot issue
She didn’t quite have the same effect in Cherry Blossoms as Buck and Allanah do in Allanah Starr’s Big Boob …
September 21, 2005
太石村 taishi village elections
One of the more interesting pieces on politics in China I’ve read recently came in the form of two pretty …
September 18, 2005
a jew in china is not a parsimonious monkey
Some uppity group called with a bad name, Peacetime Foundation of Taiwan have decided the world would be a better …
September 17, 2005
buck & allanah – the universe makes sense
I think this entry is gonna generate huge quantities of spam, considering just how much people like coming here for …
September 15, 2005
i fornicate for satan
This from the master of doom, Emile Zile, I can’t really add anything except my first thought was Mia Farrow …
September 13, 2005
shock! surprise! ozco doesn’t fund me for the eleventh time!
Who’d a fucking thought? I mean the odds were seriously in my favour: 11 applications and 0, zero, zero success, …
September 10, 2005
It’s Alive!!! quick! kill it with this blunt shovel!
Arts Victoria have pretty much kept me from going off and doing something more rewarding and of greater social worth, …
September 8, 2005
les dames du bois de bologne
While the media is getting particularly wet over Harisu, Lady and Nong Toom, and other famous transsexuals, and places like …
September 5, 2005
how to blog anonymously
Reporters sans Frontières have just released a booklet Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents, in several languages including Chinese. Alot of …
September 5, 2005
同志 tongzhi studies at fudan university
Here’s another piece on the new queer studies class at Fudan University. Besides thinking this is really cool and China …
September 2, 2005
A Strange Heaven, Contemporary Chinese photography
There’s some rumour going around about me going to Helsinki in the next couple of weeks. Apparently my legendary and …
September 2, 2005
southern china + guangzhou rock climbing
I guess Guangzhou mustn’t be that skanky wet furnace of mugginess and hysteria inducing heat anymore, though it’s hard to …
September 2, 2005
同志 tongzhi queers in China’s universities
Tong Ge, who is in his late 50s, said the haunts for homosexuals had changed dramatically in recent years. “Up …
September 2, 2005
KJ #64: Special Issue on Gender in Asia
Kyoto Journal is seeking submissions for KJ#64 Gender in Asia, guest edited by contributing editor Sally McLaren. More information on …
August 25, 2005
crazy for digital
The current state of film in China and Hong Kong, mostly triad good-cop/bad-cop or period piece fantastical martial arts sewerage …
August 23, 2005
women’s social rights are not critical to the evolution of democracy
I have pretty much steered clear saying anything about the great neo-colonial escapade in Iraq, despite keeping up with the …
August 20, 2005
miss waria indonesia 2005
Probably because it happened in late June when I was mostly living in airport lounges I missed the whole Miss …
August 17, 2005
transsexual soldiers, 20 years after halo jones
When I was a serious comic junkie and would spend waaay too much of my dole payments in the local …
August 6, 2005
Down and Out in China
Richard thought I’d like it. I was filling one of his spare rooms in Panyu with the detritus of five …
June 16, 2005
淹沒 before the flood
I missed this one completely. 淹沒Before the Flood was screened in Guangzhou on the weekend. It’s also at the Los …
June 15, 2005
beautiful boxer at singapore arts fest
Anyone who even heard of Beautiful Boxer knows what happens when a Muay Thai boxer decides wearing a dress is …
June 15, 2005
April Ashley – Transsexuals have more fun
The Sydney Morning Herald, about the closest thing Australia gets to a newspaper, but still mostly a gossip rag had …
June 15, 2005
changing the law to match your gender
It shits me so much that something so obvious has to become the province of the law and the courts …
June 13, 2005
eco-tourism in guangdong
I’m an avid map-reader. I’ll spend hours pouring over all kinds of maps looking for something, nothing. Lately it’s been …
May 28, 2005
mao the destroyer
There is always something despicable about tourists who collect Mao memorabilia or wear Great Helmsman badges. For me it is …
May 27, 2005
queer in china
The last week or so I’ve seen alot more stuff on gays in China in the press. Maybe it’s something …
May 26, 2005
bikes are bad
When I first arrived in Guangzhou, I was expecting to see more bicycles. I wasn’t too surprised by their relative …
May 25, 2005
babes in beijing
In 1989, Rachel DeWoskin arrived in Beijing fresh from university to work for an American P.R. firm. Two months later …
May 13, 2005
Miss Tiffany Universe 2005
Miss Tiffany 2005 was crowned in Pattaya, Thailand a couple of days ago. Sometimes Asia can be years ahead of …
May 5, 2005
one law for them another for the rest of us
Eugene McGee is a lawyer. He got drunk, drove and killed a cyclist. He didn’t stop because he didn’t want …
April 14, 2005
Art is fanaticism that demands diplomacy.
Back in the early 90s, Laibach stomped around in pseudo-facist uniforms, banged drums with fanatic zeal and blonde hair like …
April 12, 2005
Chinese march over Japan’s war ‘whitewash’
The weekend government-sponsored outings in China made it into the Australian papers yesterday, as Chinese diplomats act like schoolyard hillbillies …
April 10, 2005
anti-japan riots in guangzhou (and everywhere else)
The anti-Japan bullshit that has been fomenting across China in the major cities, reached a peak over the weekend. Ostensibly …
April 5, 2005
China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia
The Asian Review of Books review James Lilley’s swashbuckling tale of intrigue, parachuting spies into communist Manchuria, and hanging out …
March 21, 2005
they rule
Just in case you had any illusions about the benevolence of the Chinese communist party, who’ve shared the love three …
March 17, 2005
china demonstrates small-dick syndrome
The big news since I landed in Melbourne that everyone wants an answer to is, “When do they begin bombing?” …
February 20, 2005
punching on in the mainland
Within twenty-four hours of getting into guangzhou, I saw one almost riot at the train station between really pissed off …
February 10, 2005
burp …
Heading back to Taipei tomorrow after a week of eating. Posting will occur like a Chinese fireworks inferno some time …
January 31, 2005
guangdong #1
The centre of the manufacturing universe, Guangdong Provence now has the largest population in China. Bigger than most countries …
January 26, 2005
非常經濟實驗室 wayward economy
Main Trend Gallery, which was part of Co4 Documenta last year has just opened 非常經濟實驗室 wayward economy, curated by …
January 25, 2005
bush’s inauguration, america celebrates
I don’t usually write about American politics, but this is an exception, from a post on one of the boards …
January 17, 2005
小白兔唱片 white wabbit records
Downstairs in the underground alleys next to The Wall is a world of Taiwan and Asian music purgatory. No Kenny …
January 17, 2005
赵紫阳 zhao ziyang dies
(From China Digital News)
Zhao Ziyang, under house arrest in China since 1989, has now passed away.
His daughter says: “He is …
January 16, 2005
technorati tags and blog aggregators
(Geek warning, coding follows) T-Salon had a post on Technorati and their new blog aggregators, which are based around tags …
January 15, 2005
stop beating the animals
$ sinobling $ returns from the zoo, and doesn’t have much good to say. The attitudes of so many Chinese …
January 14, 2005
free public lynching
The issue with Australia Council for the Arts eviscerating the New Media Arts Board has had a slight hiatus over …
January 10, 2005
seth’s interactions
Late last year, former China reporter Seth Faison, who had been in the country on and off since the early …
January 9, 2005
化境神似 from zhwj
I can’t remember what I was reading which had the link to this, but after being stunned by In the …
January 8, 2005
damming tiger leaping gorge
Not content with trashing 600 kilometers of the Three Gorges and making a formerly spectacular terrain resemble little more than …
January 4, 2005
in the footsteps of joseph rock
There are a whole pageload of new blogs over at sinosplice china blog list, but only in only one is …
December 29, 2004
goodbye susan
Susan Sontag died yesterday. The New York Times has a long obituary to one of the greatest writers of the …
December 24, 2004
that’s OC
I love a good West Coast badly-acted 30-nothing playing emotional-car-crash teenagers in expensive lifestyles, like The OC. The That’s Magazine …
December 24, 2004
that’s gets shut down
Here a couple of days ago and gone today. That’s Magazines – Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai were a lifesaver when …