Brendan O'Kane: current mood
Brendan O'Kane: the propaganda slogans are getting kind of over the top
Brendan O'Kane: Dunhuang fragment via a friend on WeChat: 「五月五日天中節一切惡事盡消滅急急如律令」 (“Fifth day of fifth lunar month, Tianzhong [i.e. Duanwu] Jie: all bad stuff to be completely eliminated, effective immediately.”)
Brendan O'Kane: Somewhere back in Philadelphia I’ve got a badge identifying as a 大隊長 in the Young Pioneers.
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Brendan O'Kane: A while ago, @ChuBailiang reported on Xi Jinping’s fondness for Wang Yangming 王陽明. Wang’s sunny brand of anarcho-Mencianisn seems altogether incompatible with Xi’s track record - but sure enough, in the Shanghai Classics Bookstore just now...
Brendan O'Kane: come the fuck on
Brendan O'Kane: unfortunate
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Brendan O'Kane: Namo meow-fa Lianhua Jing/南無喵法蓮華經. (Yes, yes, I know. If YOU can think of a cat joke that works with Theravada Buddhism then by all means leave a comment.)
Brendan O'Kane: Heckin pupper accumulate him a merit
Brendan O'Kane: Shit just got extremely real.
Brendan O'Kane: I felt a hand on my shoulder. “You ain’t goin’ nowhere, flatfoot.” I came to in an alley. “Big Ears” Du’s boys had worked me over pretty good.
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Brendan O'Kane: “Really, fuck the emerging countries.”
Brendan O'Kane: Something something city of contrasts.
Brendan O'Kane: cranberry juice label or gothic horror
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Brendan O'Kane: “NORMAL” 正常
Brendan O'Kane: the cruel legacy of China’s one-child policy
Brendan O'Kane: Wall looking like the Qianlong Emperor added it to his collection.
Brendan O'Kane: when someone asks you to describe yourself in three words
Brendan O'Kane: Beijing is an ancient city with a rich cultural heritage.
Brendan O'Kane: The Bell Tower on a bitterly cold night last week.
Brendan O'Kane: I really hope 靈丹 (“numinous elixir; immortality pill; panacea”) is the street name for something.
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Brendan O'Kane: 女王陛下們
Brendan O'Kane: Zeugma makes me happy and Turkish coffee.
Brendan O'Kane: Challenge not accepted.
Brendan O'Kane: Alec’s cat has an irrefutable territorial claim on all laps within the nine-dashed line. Only a historical nihilist or a splittist could deny her.