http://www.brezhnev.net Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:05:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 生日卡没来， 杂志没收到。 我向邮局问： 邮件在何地？ 我问国安部： 它为何没到？ 但邮局无知， 国安部无德， 邮递速如蜗。 去你的。 去你的。 http://www.brezhnev.net/2010/07/11/96.html June 4, 2009, shortly before 7:00 p.m. Location: People’s Square, Shanghai. A police van with a bewildering array of cameras, lights, whizzing bits and oddly bulbous domes is parked near a large crowd. The van’s side door is slightly ajar. Signs behind the crowd reveal that the people are here ... http://www.brezhnev.net/2009/06/04/95.html This Friday will mark one month after the 97th birthday of Kim Il-sung, which is a good enough excuse for me to post something that’s been sitting on my computer for some time. It is an ode to Kim Il-sung written in the style of Robert Burns, with apologies in advance ... http://www.brezhnev.net/2009/05/13/93.html An ill-starred taxi ride recently left me without a commuter bike. Lesson learned: When taking a taxi, always get a receipt. Without one, the Bashi Taxi Company proved unable to recover my beloved Dahon Boardwalk, folded and placed in the trunk. It had recently been converted into what I dare ... http://www.brezhnev.net/2009/05/04/92.html Any visitors to this blog (there, I’ve said it) have no doubt noticed a distinct lack of activity in recent months. That’s mostly due to my resources being focused on this magazine and blog. Much to my surprise, however, I’ve found this site continuing to draw a steady stream of ... http://www.brezhnev.net/2008/09/24/89.html Dubai Airport at 2:00 a.m. is possibly the strangest place I’ve ever found myself. It’s not so much the airport itself, but rather the multicoloured masses of deranged, jet-lagged travellers lunging through the never-ending duty free shops that lend it a manic intensity. It isn’t helped by my state of ... http://www.brezhnev.net/2008/02/13/87.html I’m a big fan of China’s many regional cuisines, which provide a nearly endless array of mouth-watering dishes: solid, proletarian Beijing dumplings, grilled lamb skewers from Muslim western China, delicately steamed fish from Hong Kong, sweet Shanghainese “red-cooked” pork, fantastic green vegetables from just about everywhere, and, my favourite, the ... http://www.brezhnev.net/2008/01/20/86.html From a friend (and hosted on Danwei), a new show on urban life in Shanghai: “The Shanghai Beat”. The first episode features a tour of Shanghai’s gay scene. More to come… http://www.brezhnev.net/2007/10/29/85.html This explanation (with diagrams!) of cars at a Beijing intersection making a left turn is one of the funniest things I’ve read in a while. Substitute a Volkswagen Santana for the Hyundai if you’re in Shanghai, and add a couple of mopeds. Edit: Proxy link here. http://www.brezhnev.net/2007/09/06/84.html I was visiting the Web site of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) a few weeks ago, and was disappointed to find that the weather conditions in Beijing — temperature and wind speed — were given only in degrees Fahrenheit and miles per hour, respectively. I sent ... http://www.brezhnev.net/2007/08/16/83.html