Archive for September, 2008

found out today that i will be spending the national holiday period in london for work. i fly out on monday and return on saturday. so – while i have no official time off, working in london is not nearly the same as being holed up in china when all your other friends are off [...]

very happy about going to the daedelus show tonight at shelter. also, this!
today feels like summercamp at the office, alot of people have already left for the october holiday and everything is quiet. i’m sitting here waiting for the london office to wake up, headphones on, watching the royal tenenbaums with commentary by wes anderson. [...]

GET ANGRIER! Call them liars, because that’s what they are. Sarah Palin didn’t say “thanks but no thanks” to the Bridge to Nowhere. She just said “Thanks.” You were raised by a single mother on food stamps — where does a guy with eight houses who was legacied into Annapolis get off calling you an [...]

woke up this morning feeling absolutely drained and terrible, and decided to work from home instead of the bustling, chaotic office. spent the day checking/responding to emails, taking client calls, drinking english breakfast twinnings tea and dreaming about the next city to explore.
shanghai is an amazing place to live, a fantastical city with lush, [...]

maybe i’m regressing too much into my teenaged self tonight, but the weakerthans still hold a very near and dear place in my heart.
i’m really late on this, but i’ve finally listened to their latest record. oh, john k. samson, has it really been over ten years?
mp3 download: the weakerthans – night windows.

today is one of those lazy sundays. i feel like i haven’t been spending very much time with my cat, she is understandably upset and even angrier with me now that i have tied little bell around her neck. she likes to skulk around the apartment though, and when i am walking from the bathroom [...]

on this relatively stress-less (who are we kidding?) friday afternoon at the w+k shanghai offices, here is what we got up to. maybe someone from the outside world will see this and come and rescue us?
my friend julie & i are planning on doing something like this every friday. suggestions, please.

i didn’t end up going out to the antidote party, instead i was in the office and on the phone and pulling my hairs out until the wee hours of the morning. we’ve got a week long national holiday coming up here in china, and i think everyone around here is starting to lose it [...]

i’m still at the office, but hoping to head over to this in a bit. blech.

The American Apparel V-neck shirt, Pabst Blue Ribbon beer and Parliament cigarettes are symbols and icons of working or revolutionary classes that have been appropriated by hipsterdom and drained of meaning. Ten years ago, a man wearing a plain V-neck tee and drinking a Pabst would never be accused of being a trend-follower. But in [...]