I’ve been borderline obsessed with this piece of music for at least a week now, so it makes sense that I bear witness. Imagine, if you will, what would happen if, in the seventies a drugged-out Miles Davis stopped making jazz anyone wanted in favour of skronky noise-funk from outer space, lost his girlfriend to [...]

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If anyone were primed to love Jim Jarmusch’s new movie, “The Limits of Control,” it should be me. Since the late 90s when I first encountered his films (first in an overwrought review of “Dead Man” by music critic Greil Marcus in an online column that no longer exists anywhere online) I’ve followed his output [...]

The Daily Show writers are ridiculously good. (They were, after all, poached from The Onion, the funniest fake news prior to the common era.) Did you see last Thursday’s show? They don’t allow full episode embeds any more (apparently) but if you go over here you can watch the whole show, which you should! at [...]

Obviously, the esteemed writer for The Atlantic and erstwhile China blogger (not to mention Jimmy Carter’s chief speechwriter) James Fallows is not following me, but I started to get that feeling after reading his post from Beijing on May 30, minutes after he wrote it, from Beijing, and about discovering some re-routed links, courtesy of [...]

Last Saturday in Beijing, our final full day in China, Yuhang and I visited the Imperial City, popularly called the Forbidden City. The main gate to that massive walled compound of 980 beautiful buildings is named the Gate of Heavenly Peace or Tiananmen, marking the north end of that famous and infamous square of the [...]

One of my favourite things about boingboing and its idiosyncratic writers is their collective fixation on zombies. It’s there, for instance, where I learned of Berlin’s Zombie Walk last year. I wish I would have thought of the zombie haiku contest, which had its winner(s) declared today. I also get to dust off my disused [...]