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Comment on take me to…tv land by Erin

Erin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:03:22 +0000

but that snake clip was on the NEWS. fear factor is a show. right? right?

Comment on 老朋友，new beijing by Gwen

Gwen — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:24:04 +0000

It’s good to see you’re posting again! Glad you’ve had so much fun seeing your friend.

Comment on beijing: a creepster’s paradise by Pete

Pete — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:07:20 +0000

Oh, and it’s Norwegians. Get it right!

Comment on beijing: a creepster’s paradise by Pete

Pete — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:05:42 +0000

Hahaha. WeLiveInBeijing is full of creepsters — both expat and domestic alike — but the people who run it are really nice. We swear!

The dudes in the photo are a band called Rustic. Good guys. Check ‘em out sometime!

Comment on how to survive a beijing winter by Molly Schremmer

Molly Schremmer — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:26:51 +0000

More calming, wintery music:
-Kings of Convenience (they have a new album)
-Air (they have a new album too)
-Carla Bruni (I have no idea if she has a new album, she’s probably too busy being married to Nicholas Sarkozy)

PS It was 64 degrees today. wtf.

Comment on this is a real thing by Benny

Benny — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:31:56 +0000

Hey Maya,

Mike Fu pointed me to your fantastic blog. I was surprised to see your post on the Dwarf Empire in Kunming. I’ve been to the place a bunch of times and have 5+ hours of video footage (performances, interviews, etc.). We’re not sure if we’ll be able to do anything with what we’ve got though because a number of TV stations are competing for the rights. We shall see. Anyway, hope all is well!

Benny

Comment on exciting chinese word of the week! by Catherine Belle

Catherine Belle — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:38:00 +0000

The only thing I have to take issue with is your bold assertion that “film festivals are rarely held in crappy places.” PARK CITY, UTAH????

Comment on exciting chinese word of the week! by molly!

molly! — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:15:17 +0000

I get it! I get it!

And to answer your other question: yes you are the only one.

Comment on chinese apparel by Mike

Mike — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:51:15 +0000

Ahahahaaaa. Thumbs up. Your rendering of the Chinese hipster’s monologue is spot on.

Comment on good to know by Chris

Chris — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:06:38 +0000

Enjoying your blog a lot!

You might also find http://www.pin1yin1.com useful as a translator. It’s really good for copying characters over from the interwebs, and then it translates it into pinyin and gives a character by character exegesis in English. Sounds like a pretty standard translator/dictionary, but give it a try with some (lengthy) forum topic on mop and you’ll see what I’m talking about– not great if you want to quickly understand (in English) what’s going on, but great if you’re trying to understand what was written in Chinese (if that makes sense).

Anyway, really enjoy the blog! Makes me miss China (well, sort of).