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i kept the slippers

Maybe six months on a hard Chinese mattress has turned me into a softie, but I’m ready to declare the beds at the Shanghai Four Seasons Hotel the most comfortable in the world. I had the delight of dozing on a king-size one last weekend … and I felt like I was floating.

Really, the entire weekend was a dream, an odd out-of-body experience that had me hovering somewhere between the reality of China and an artificial adaptation of America, which I generally only see in the movies (or when I happen to be traveling with my friend Veronica).

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03.07.2003, 12:07 PM · Observations · Comments (3)

blue eyes, not black

Just to clear up some confusion: I am not the poor bloke with a black eye in one of this site’s former featured photos. That is my friend Glen. I was the photographer.

To see the photo click here.

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03.07.2003, 1:59 AM · Photos · Comments (5)