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happy Jesus’s birthday to all of youse who’re into that kind of thing. chappy hanukkah to some of the others. who else wants latkes?

i love reading mysteries and they bring great pleasure and joy into my life. this verse from a yellowing copy of William Marshall’s ‘Thin Air’ caught my eye on my commute home tonight. ‘Thin Air’ is one of his great Yellowthread Street mysteries set in Hong Kong 15 years before it returned to China. I hope one day to have enough talent to be able to write this kind of line. it shines like a starry Bethlehem sky:

“You get some respect for me damn quick or there’ll be so many bodies around you’ll have to wear water-wings to swim through the blood!”

dear god that’s good. ...READ MORE

It’s a bird it’s a plane, no it’s the funk doc, ain’t a damned thing changed.

Except I’m in the Hong Kong airport with a runny nose hoping the food concessions will open sometime soon or at the very least the money changers will open so I can get 10 Hong Kong dollars to buy a grapefruit soda.

As much as I’d like to I can’t report on the quality of the meal on Cathay Pacific Air because I slept through it (probably for the best I’m sure). They do leave their snack carts unattended though so that’s a good thing. Breakfast wasn’t bad. I avoided the pork congee. Congee is still in my opinion bad enough but with zhu it’s too much for this (sometimes) Jew, at least when I can get a healthful pseudo-Denver omelette instead.

Why is it called a Denver omelette but more importantly what’s the big deal – ham, green pepper, onion. So?

I’m more than happy to eat Chinese food for the duration but if for ...READ MORE