Apologies to anyone trying to access the pre-2010 archives the last few days or stumbling into dead links from search returns. The old news.imagethief site, where all pre-2010 posts live, is offline for some reason. I’m looking into it.
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Our ongoing exploration of the bizarre furnishings of Beijing apartments has entered what appears to be the “oriental love nest” phase. Surely we must be getting close to the end. Today my eye-sockets were cauterized by this: As you’d expect along with a tiger bedspread, this apartment also came with a toddler-friendly free-standing glass cabinet full [...] The latest Sinica podcast is now live. In this edition, Kaiser Kuo, Danwei editor Jeremy Goldkorn and I discuss the state of English language China blogging. The title and blurb are actually a bit alarmist. Our conclusion is that the sense of community around the China blogs has changed as the main discussions have moved [...] Continuing my exploration of the zaniest fixtures and furnishings in China, this weekend I looked at a lovely apartment in Greenlake Place (Guanhu) that was thoroughly trashed by this living room set: When I finally get around to overthrowing that small, African nation like I’ve been planning, this is the furniture I’ll want in my throne [...] I’ve been paying pretty close attention to the long-running BP disaster. As a PR professional, most of my reactions to the spill boil (or refine) down to the following: Better them than me. Still, while I am mindful of the vast human and environmental toll of the disaster, I am not without sympathy. Or free [...] Last week I had the pleasure of co-hosting Sinica with Kaiser as we discussed China’s environment with Guardian journalist and author Jonathan Watts and Alex Wang, director of the China Environmental Law project at the Natural Resources Defense Council. That means that, as usual, Kaiser produced the podcast and did all the hard work, and [...] Imagethief used to do a lot of dive photography back when he lived somewhere conducive to scuba diving. Beijing is not conducive to scuba diving. It’s not that you can’t do it, it’s just that your options are limited to the Blue Zoo (fun but claustrophobic and repetitive), the local lakes (yuck) or the reservoirs [...] It’s time to move. We’ve been in the same place for nearly three years. It’s been good, but Mrs. Imagethief’s business is growing, I’m spending some of my time working at home, and let’s not even get into the whole child-number-two discussion. The upshot is that we need a bigger place. I hate almost everything about moving. [...] |
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