danwashburn

status updates

If you like music a reviewer might describe as "woodsy" check out A.A. Bondy's "When The Devil's Loose" from last year. http://ow.ly/1gv4j.

“The mountain is high and the emperor is far away”: On the contradictory nature of golf in China. http://ow.ly/1goSg.

A commenter sets the over/under on my "visit to China" at two weeks. Place your bets. http://ow.ly/1gmSr.

The photo essay that accompanies my Slate story, with images of golf course destruction and village life from @ryanpyle: http://ow.ly/1g5Bh.

"The Forbidden Game," my Slate Magazine piece on China's 'golf police,' bulldozed fairways and local politics: http://ow.ly/1g5sp.

"How the U.S. Blew It at the Shanghai World Expo" – excellent overview by @adamminter in @fp_magazine http://ow.ly/1fVZO.

"All of these golf courses can be used as cemeteries. The peasant uprising will produce a large number of dead bodies." http://ow.ly/1fVyO.

When I make my first movie, I am going to set part of it in a desert and I'll cast Ralph Fiennes. It'll probably win an Oscar.

I really can't wait for Miss Congeniality 3 now. #oscars.

I think James Taylor is at risk of getting voted off this week. #oscars.

If you're so blessed as to win a third Oscar the first words of your acceptance speech probably shouldn't be, "I already have two of these."

Learning about American whores in old Shanghai at the Glamour Bar on a Sunday afternoon. Thanks, Paul French (@chinarhyming).

I should know better than to answer a call from a number I don't recognize. "We offer financial services by expats for expats ..."

Because I know nobody cares, here are my top 20 movies of 2009: http://ow.ly/1eu6s.

Spotify users, some pretty great best-of-2010-so-far playlists from @drownedinsound right here: http://ow.ly/1e3Z5.

Been enjoying "A Study in Scarlet" these past couple days. (That's the anti-Mormon Sherlock Holmes novel.) http://ow.ly/1dYJS.

Facebook: Is there a way to stop events to which you're invited but not attending from sending you messages? Maybe a "block all DJs" button?

Best time to go to movies in Shanghai?5:05pm on a Monday. Four people, including us, at "Sherlock Holmes" screening in Xintiandi.

Story finished. Taking my lovely patient wife to the Shanghai aquarium for her birthday.

My best writing breakthroughs tend to come while I am in the shower. I really should try to shower more often.