China
September 10, 2009
- The fresh perspective of an outsider-on-the-inside releases energy from all directions. What strikes us about a place — and may entice our fellow country-people – often does not resonate to the same degree with the average native.I was pleased to meet an expat woman entrepreneur on LinkedIn last week who was once a director at the American-Malaysian Chamber of Commerce. She now advises the ...
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September 7, 2009
- Huang Xiang condemned to death in China, has found asylum here. He is a slender man, always in motion, singing to himself, moving, full of kinetic energy which explodes as he reads his extraordinary poems. You would not imagine, seeing him that he had spent twelve years in prisons and labor camps. But the poems themselves contain the contradictions of his life. He feels himself a life-force, ...
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August 27, 2009
- The Daily Event is proud to have Igor Yopsvoyomatsky, editor-in chief of paranoiaisfact.com, to answers readers' questions. Dear Igor, I sell souvenirs to tourists on the Staten Island Ferry and after eight years of Dubya I can't give America away. Nobody wants Statue of Liberty piggy banks, FBI caps, "Brooklyn Rules" tees...Not even Michael Jackson wind up dolls. People used to ...
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August 25, 2009
August 25, 2009
August 11, 2009
- See below, thanks to my friend Tim Barnard, a picture of one of my favorite Starbucks. This one is in downtown Xian -- the walled Chinese city nearest to the Terra Cotta warriors. Check it out, it has an interesting and distinct architectural flavor, kind of like an urban retreat, a modern cabin in the middle of the city. Nothing like a US Starbucks in a strip mall parking in King of ...
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August 10, 2009
- During a thunderstorm last night, Matthew, my seven-year-old, came into my room and said, "I'm so scared I could cry." I said to come up and he flew into bed where I was reading.He said, "Tell me a happy story. Tell me about your honeymoon."I told him about Copper Harbor, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, in February. A story he knows well.After a while he said, "I ...
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July 12, 2009
- I am finally peaceful enough to write after a health scare that sucked away all oxygen for nearly a year. The last three weeks turned nightmarish, because my eyes were to be implanted with medicine at St. Mary's on Wednesday. A foreign object was going to be plugged in near my retina. After seeing a fourth specialist, it was determined that the original diagnosis was wrong. I know I've ...
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May 26, 2009
- The Daily Sam is stepping up its level of reportage (pretty fancy word, huh? Doesn’t that make you feel educated?) by adding a foreign correspondent: my twenty-year-old son Daniel Barry. Daniel has been overseas for two years now and has visited more than forty countries in that time. Presently he is in China, which is a lot closer to North Korea than San Francisco, so I am going to check in ...
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May 26, 2009
- Inspired by, well, pretty much every radio station over the Memorial Day weekend, I've decided to utilize one of their tactics for keeping the listener - or, in my case, the reader - tuned in: The Top 500 Countdown.That's right. Beginning today, I will be posting the Top 500 Things Things You Should Know About Me. Once a week.For the next 500 weeks.I figure, that keeps you riveted for the next ...
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