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Red Sky at Night: September 2006
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Monday, September 25, 2006. Although she may not look it, pictured at right is a villain of the highest order. Take a good, long look, and know the face of evil. That may be a bit overly harsh; she was actually one of the nicest ladies I can imagine meeting (although she was talking to the other customers about how bad my Chinese was. at least I understood that much? Her crime, however, was cooking something that got me sick as hell. I rode it out, lived to tell the tale, and was fine 24 hours post-noodle.
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Red Sky at Night: August 2008
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Saturday, August 30, 2008. Tomorrow afternoon, Invesco field will once again be a football stadium, as the CU Buffs take on the Colorado State Rams in the Rocky Mountain Showdown. Before long, the speech prep office at the Pepsi Center will go back to being the locker room for the Colorado Avalanche. And Howard Dean's headquarters will return to its rightful owner, Avalanche Head Coach Tony Granato. The Democratic National Convention is over, and Denver is going back to being a nice, quiet city. Complete...
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Red Sky at Night: Switching Lanes for a Change
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Sunday, February 14, 2010. Switching Lanes for a Change. From the department of plus ça change. A 1980 editorial by Emmett Tyrrell. It's amazing what great strides cycling has made toward the mainstream in the last 30 years, while the vitriol targeted at it remains unchanged. Anybody who can figure out what paper this was printed in wins a gold star. A handwritten note on the article (linked above) makes reference of the Star, but I'm stumped. All historification aside, this is hilarious:. Close observer...
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Red Sky at Night: October 2008
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Friday, October 31, 2008. I dressed the candidates up in their costumes. Does this change who you'll be voting for? Posted by Sam at 10:20 AM. Saturday, October 25, 2008. I was standing in line for the Bank of America ATM in Columbia Heights (there's always a line.) when a deranged old white dude with a scraggly beard and gnarled teeth came and gave me a talking to. I have no idea what he was saying, but it was not complimentary. This one's for George:. Hat tip to SLNG). Posted by Sam at 5:56 PM. The pre...
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Red Sky at Night: September 2008
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Monday, September 29, 2008. Thoughts From Messrs. Huxley and Faulkner. I was recently forwarded a pair of interviews published by The Paris Review. One with Aldous Huxley. In 1960, and one with William Faulkner. In 1956. They both are brilliant, and I feel compelled to share some choice quotations from each herein. The trouble with Freudian psychology is that it is based exclusively on a study of the sick. Freud never met a healthy human being- only patients and other psychoanalysts. -AH. I have a great ...
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Red Sky at Night: August 2006
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Thursday, August 10, 2006. Still in the USA. My hope is to update this blog daily with a photo du jour (今天的照片, in the local tongue), and hopefully several times per week with lengthier written posts. Additionally, I'm planning to apply for a weekly column in my hometown newspaper the Tufts Daily. With the blessing of the editorial department there, I'll be reprinting those articles here. Posted by Sam at 8:16 PM. Washington, DC, United States. View my complete profile. Links I Like, Likes I Link:.
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Red Sky at Night: June 2008
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Thursday, June 26, 2008. Going to the Office. It's frustrating, leeching on society (and particularly on the free wireless at True Grounds) and feeling generally unproductive. Still, the life has its perks. This morning, my alarm went off at 7:30 because I was feeling ambitious last night. I got out of bed at 9:15. And I'm planning on shoving off around 2:30 to go watch a soccer game. Things could be worse, really. Posted by Sam at 10:29 AM. Washington, DC, United States. View my complete profile.
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Red Sky at Night: December 2006
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006. Beijing vs. Shanghai. Having now spent a semester in Bejing, and 57 hours in Shanghai, I feel qualified and, indeed, obliged to weigh in on the Beijing vs. Shanghai debate. Who wins? Let me tell you, it’s Shanghai, and it’s no contest. Allow me to lay out my reasons in the structure of an obnoxious list I’ll call the 8 W’s. Wuran: Wuran is Chinese for pollution. Shanghai’s air is dirty, and Beijing’s is way, way worse. Enough said. Posted by Sam at 2:13 AM. The semester has ...
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Red Sky at Night: July 2008
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Sunday, July 20, 2008. More and more often, the Marshall Plan is used rhetorically- by politicians, pundits, and the like- as a paragon for what this country needs. Just in the past month, the Plan has been used as a model for what we need on foreign aid. And Czech missile defense. And that's just the beginning of the list. I'm as much enamored with the success of the Marshall Plan as anybody else (I even went to a panel discussion of the Plan's legacy at the German Marshall Fund. Saturday, July 19, 2008.
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Red Sky at Night: October 2006
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006. You can celebrate by reading the newest column in the Tufts Daily, here. It opens with some exciting news that I hesitate to publish in this forum. Enticed? The weekend was rather mellow- most of my fellow CIEE students took off for Pingyao, a city I visited in my travels last summer. So I stayed here, and enjoyed a restful and productive weekend on campus. Boring, huh? I apologize for the annoying angle. Posted by Sam at 2:42 AM. Friday, October 27, 2006. One of the big buildi...
