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Commie Comics

I just got this link from my friend Derrick (www.maskofchina.com) and man is it funny stuff. It’s an old comic put out by the Catholic Guild designed to promote citizenship, morality and patriotism. This bit ran in 1961. The other interesting link I got recently was from another Dalian blogger. It is essentially a blog …

May 29, 2005
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Wooly Jumpers – A soft tragedy

If you don’t get the subject line, you’ve likely not called me in China. That’s right folks… I hadn’t mentioned my secret plans, but I was resting whether I actually went to Australia or just returned to Canada on who called me first – someone from Welland or someone from Melbourne (I’m discounting my Aunt …

May 25, 2005
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X The X-ray

I know there’s a few of you that just logged on to the Internet to discover if it is possible for a Canadian male (approx. 27 years of age) to get from Dalian to Shenyang and back in a day… and let me tell you: it is indeed my friends, it is indeed. I caught …

May 24, 2005
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A Strong Movement

What a beautifully euphemistic term ‘movement’ is… its very mention inspires a sense of something happening. It’s exciting. Possibly people getting together to stand up for what they believe in. Running out into the streets, furiously chanting ‘Down with buttons, to hell with zippers! WE-WANT VEL-CRO! WE-WANT VEL-CRO!’ But alas, euphemisms being what they are… …

May 16, 2005
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Kylie Showgirl Tour Pitchers 2005

Top 9 of 9 Total Search Strings # Hits Search String 1 14 56.00% humanaught 2 2 8.00% eric’s hair salon beijing 3 2 8.00% the humanaught 4 2 8.00% thehumanaught.com 5 1 4.00% koh phanagan 6 1 4.00% kylie showgirl tour pitchers 2005 7 1 4.00% mcvittie dam 8 1 4.00% shanghai ktv girls …

May 9, 2005
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When You’re A Stranger

I’ve had a desire to figure out this Mahjong thing since coming to China and now having clocked about an hour and a half of watching it unfold infront of me I can safely state – I’m no closer to understanding it. Ok, I know it involves tiles – a shit load of them – …

May 9, 2005
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Bingyu Valley

Aaron, Summer, Lorna and yours truly. [photo by Lorna] I’m not entirely sure why I always attempt to write these entries when I should by all accounts be gently passed-out beneath the covers of my bed. I mean, there’s nothing stopping me from turning this laptop off and getting my much earned sleep… yet, here …

May 7, 2005
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Sun of a Beach

Last night I partook in one of the oddest things I’ve ever done. A friend of mine (who we’ll call Monica – even though it’s a guy) knows this woman that gets a kick out of hooking up Chinese girls with Western guys… it’s how Mo…nica met his current, rather attractive, girlfriend and as such …

May 3, 2005
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Oh Mister Sandman…

Alright, I’ve been hiding behind the guise of working on my Web site for the last couple hours… but the time has come where I must owe up to the simple, undeniable fact – I’m afraid to go to bed. Very occassionally strange things happen to me while I’m asleep. I don’t sleepwalk so much …

April 29, 2005
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Miscellanea

So, some things are finally changing around my site. As you may have noticed, I’ve worked out a different colour scheme. Now before I get loads of e-mails crying, “But Ryan! I like green…”, I’ve done this because I want a bit more coherency between my blog and my actual site. The site itself is …

April 27, 2005
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Arrrg me matey!

China Imprisons Two Americans For DVD Piracy I’m sort of indifferent to the whole thing, but I’ll be a little disappointed if these guys have pooched my ability to send my steadily growing DVD collection home at the end of my time here in China. It’s also amusing that it stresses the “Americans arrested” angle… …

April 24, 2005
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