A Guided Tour - recommended posts from the second quarter of '07
1) In Hankou, without watches - 28th June, 2007
Remembering my first visit to China
2) The allure of the barmaid - 25th June, 2007
A favourite cartoon, and some musings on why we fall for barmaids
3) HBH 35 - 22nd June, 2007
One of my better 'drinker's haiku' - honouring the life-changing phenomenon that is Tequila Rapido
3) Why we drink (or why we shouldn't) - 17th June, 2007
A hastily improvised poem on the melancholia associated with drinking
4) Ideal job?? - 8th June, 2007
More evidence of why I would make a very unsuitable careers adviser
5) The Queen is dead - 29th May, 2007
Celebrating one of my favourite (demised) Muslim restaurants in Beijing
6) The world's simplest bar joke - 28th May, 2007
Remembering two great jokes from the late British comedian Tommy Cooper
7) Happy birthday, 2K!! - 27th May, 2007
Some pics and comment on the 2nd anniversary party for my favourite little music bar in Beijing (also celebrated here)
8) Singin' in the rain - an 'Adventure Bar' moment - 22nd May, 2007
One of my quirkiest, most blissful recollections of my time in China
9) That's not DRUNK - 21st May, 2007
A great line from Dean Martin!
10) So, farewell then... - 15th May, 2007
Remembering one of Beijing's most useful 'networking clubs', on the occasion of its demise
11) The ultimate 'Unsuitable Role Model' - 14th May, 2007
Maudlin reflections prompted by watching again, for the first time in many years, a favourite film - 'Cool Hand Luke'
12) Virgin loos - 12th May, 2007
A review of a promising new live venue and of one of Beijing's most idiosyncratic musical talents, Xiao He
13) Bliss - May 4th, 2007
A new favourite bar - and the two very cool musician friends who entice me there so regularly of late
14) D-22 - May 2nd, 2007
Some people seem to like this pretentious music bar; the place gets on my tits!
15) The Muslim succession - April 30th, 2007
A lament for the rarity and the ephemerality of decent Xinjiang restaurants in my neighbourhood... and the beginning of the quest to the find the next
16) Concept - April 27th, 2007
My idea for a Beijing bar.... one day
17) Centro - the worst bar in Beijing? - April 26th, 2007
A long overdue hymn of hate to the most overrated bar in this city
18) Wingmanship - April 25th, 2007
Analysing a crucial concept in the art of pursuing women, and in male friendships
19) Fidelity - or fatigue? - April 23rd, 2007
Am I really more loyal to bars than to women?? A brief but disturbing philosophical musing...
20) Beware of Tequila! - April 20th, 2007
As if you need to be told
21) What is it about the French? - April 19th, 2007
An unanswerable question, of course - more thwarted romantic longing (and stern interrogation from Tulsa in the comments)
22) Amnesia, a friend indeed - April 18th, 2007
A rare bon mot of my own
23) Huxley's - the 'Haiku Bar' - April 17th, 2007
My 'local', my Lost Love, my poetry-writing - it's all linked!!
24) 'Tired & Emotional' explained - April 16th, 2007
More classic drinking anecdotes retold
25) The Adventure Bar - April 14th, 2007
The story of my first year or so in China (this one always makes me cry)
26) Post 200 - time for another poem! - April 11th, 2007
Another milestone on the blog provides the pretext for publishing one of my most depressive and personal poems
27) The breaking of the Fellowship - April 8th, 2007
The story of The Three Amigos, the unholy alliance of drinking academics which was the focus of my life during my first two years here in China
28) The Invisible Barrier - April 4th, 2007
One of my more ignominious - and life-threatening - drinking experiences
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