zwei bäume weniger – 1 zwei bäume weniger – 2 zwei bäume weniger – 3 zwei bäume weniger – 4 …
October 20, 2010 – 1:28 am
Zwei Bäume weniger in Berlin nur Baustellen und Bagger und brave Bürger..
October 19, 2010 – 1:09 am
Uferstrasse Trees
A few months ago various people in Uferstrasse got together to save some trees that were to be felled in …
October 16, 2010 – 4:35 am
Reading… a 3rd anniversary
Regarding the two-score books of the last year, it is surprising which of the non-fiction – a term I use …
September 12, 2010 – 1:23 am
(Some) Stuff I Read This Week
For some reason I decided to start using Twitter again — I suspect iPhone — and without any clear purpose …
July 29, 2010 – 4:45 am
die bäume bleiben
(Just before cycling back to rehearsal…) Our beautiful tree of Uferstrasse will remain for the moment. The Berliner Wasserbetriebe has …
July 14, 2010 – 7:06 am
meine bäume
Outside the window where I work with Dy are many beautiful trees. My view, as I sit here and write …
March 6, 2006 – 8:15 pm
pearl river bikini party
Once, hanging out down on Shamian Island, and wanting to be, I dunno, somewhere less touristy, I saw Chairman Mao …
December 26, 2005 – 3:00 pm
don’t drink the brown acid
The first time it was almost world news; the second when upstart southern capital Guangzhou tried to get in on …
November 6, 2005 – 2:06 am
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 …
October 16, 2005 – 11:08 pm
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 …
January 8, 2005 – 3:35 pm
damming tiger leaping gorge
Not content with trashing 600 kilometers of the Three Gorges and making a formerly spectacular terrain resemble little more than …
November 16, 2004 – 10:17 pm
shit place for a swim
The Three Gorges dam is nothing much more than a giant toilet, slowing to a grinding halt the flow of …
August 31, 2004 – 10:17 pm
pollution in China
The Economist published a fairly detailed article on the state of the environment in China, the levels of continuing degradation …
May 14, 2004 – 12:46 am
There goes the neighbourhood
At the place where 金沙江 Jinsha Jiang bashes headlong into a mountain and does an abrupt 90 degree change of …
April 28, 2004 – 6:52 pm
A big stinking shithole
Last xinnian, I travelled to Sichuan with the intention of going up to Jiuzhaigou for a couple of weeks. New …
April 24, 2004 – 12:05 am
Poison & chemical deaths in China
China has a pretty piss-weak workers’ safety record, but is it just me or have the last couple of weeks …