Sunday, March 25, 2007
Friday, March 23, 2007
orange crumb dinner
my friends nick and beth organized a big dinner last night with like 30 people! the cougers were seperated from the adults and put at the kiddie table! needless to say it got ugly!
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
life is good
Life has never been so good. almost every new day is the best day of my life.
I keep thinking its just like the movie office space but exactly the opposite. except for what I would do with a million dollars thing. that part is the same.
I keep thinking its just like the movie office space but exactly the opposite. except for what I would do with a million dollars thing. that part is the same.
Monday, March 19, 2007
The e-mail that started it all
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 14:37:23 -0700
From: "Thomas Clouse"
To: benradcliffe@yahoo.com
Subject: Plans
Alright, Ben,
I got two plans for you.
First plan, giant woodstock-like hippee festival less than a mile from
my house in Manchester, Tennessee... 80,000 tickets already sold. Its
sold out, but there are quite a few tickets floatin around on Ebay and my Dad's
workin the bars around town to check the connections...
Members of the Dead, Phish, and Widespread Panic'll be there as well as
a ton of other people... you should check out the website at
www.bonnaroo.com. The second plan, China and/or Tibet for four weeks, from Aug 9th to
Sept 6th. I'm teaching in china for three weeks, and I finish on the 9th of Aug.
Then I gotta get back for a wedding in Sept... (though I'll probably be back
in China in Oct.)
What's your schedule like?
I'm also planning a layover in Chi-town early July, but it sounds like
you'llbe gone by then.
Anyway, I hope things are good there.
Talk to ya soon,
Tom
From: "Thomas Clouse"
To: benradcliffe@yahoo.com
Subject: Plans
Alright, Ben,
I got two plans for you.
First plan, giant woodstock-like hippee festival less than a mile from
my house in Manchester, Tennessee... 80,000 tickets already sold. Its
sold out, but there are quite a few tickets floatin around on Ebay and my Dad's
workin the bars around town to check the connections...
Members of the Dead, Phish, and Widespread Panic'll be there as well as
a ton of other people... you should check out the website at
www.bonnaroo.com. The second plan, China and/or Tibet for four weeks, from Aug 9th to
Sept 6th. I'm teaching in china for three weeks, and I finish on the 9th of Aug.
Then I gotta get back for a wedding in Sept... (though I'll probably be back
in China in Oct.)
What's your schedule like?
I'm also planning a layover in Chi-town early July, but it sounds like
you'llbe gone by then.
Anyway, I hope things are good there.
Talk to ya soon,
Tom
sunday night movie night
We had another successful movie night here at my casa. a much smaller crowd but it was expected after st pats day. We watched half-nelson. It is really fucking intense.
Please give any recommendations of great for movies for night. the main feature kicks off at 8pm . The main feature is usually a classic. the pre feature is usualy a great comedy.
Sunday, March 18, 2007
st patricks day
crazy st. patricks day like always.
started with a birthday dinner. dinner was wild i only knew few people there. very traditional. lots of soups lots of beers. then tommy got all festive and splurged for a $1 bottle of bijou ( nasty ass chinese rice wine that makes maddog seem like a bottle of Chrys. )
then headed way out across town to wodouko to a bar with 10 kwai gunness' on the way out we were in a taxi and in this giant 3 lane road there was an old woman laying in the middle lane. no one was stopping to help so we full filled our karmic duty and jumped out of the taxi and walked her to the sidewalk. we then hit the bar lush met some friends drank a few Guinness' then tommy hand job and i bailed d22to meet patrick and see some band. ended up chatting with the owner a bit then did some jack daniels shots with him. then we headed all the way back to browns met up with basically everybody. i remember more jack daniels shots and zambuca i vaguely remember dancing on a bar then tommy's ex girlfriend was there then she told me tommy was ill and we jumped in a cab and went home. (and by ill i i meant he was puking in the hallway to the bathrooms )
here are some photos notice the matching green ferrari track suits that tommy handjob and i are pimping!
started with a birthday dinner. dinner was wild i only knew few people there. very traditional. lots of soups lots of beers. then tommy got all festive and splurged for a $1 bottle of bijou ( nasty ass chinese rice wine that makes maddog seem like a bottle of Chrys. )
then headed way out across town to wodouko to a bar with 10 kwai gunness' on the way out we were in a taxi and in this giant 3 lane road there was an old woman laying in the middle lane. no one was stopping to help so we full filled our karmic duty and jumped out of the taxi and walked her to the sidewalk. we then hit the bar lush met some friends drank a few Guinness' then tommy hand job and i bailed d22to meet patrick and see some band. ended up chatting with the owner a bit then did some jack daniels shots with him. then we headed all the way back to browns met up with basically everybody. i remember more jack daniels shots and zambuca i vaguely remember dancing on a bar then tommy's ex girlfriend was there then she told me tommy was ill and we jumped in a cab and went home. (and by ill i i meant he was puking in the hallway to the bathrooms )
here are some photos notice the matching green ferrari track suits that tommy handjob and i are pimping!
Saturday, March 17, 2007
slacking all week
i have been slacking off all week especially on the photos and stuff.
sitting here bored on st pats wearing green getting ready to paint the town green. I figured i would recap the week.
i have been slacking all week! i still haven't even developed any of the 40 rolls of film from my vietnam trip.
monday was the school thing with the magazine. dinner drinks yada yada yada.
tuesday night had dinner with some of tommy's ex-coworkers from this really important chinese financial magazine. its funny tommy started as an intern there and after a year apparently he was the man. for the first 6 months he lived in the editors house. after a few weeks noticing him constantly coming home around 1pm after a night of drinking she realized he had upper management potential. I guess they had him doing really important stuff. whenever we go over to the magazine for lunch the managing editor pulls tom into his office for a pow-wow and everyone treats him like a celebrity. crazy!
wednesday was kind of the an exciting night. me and the boys all had special dinners with special ladies that night. I have been spending a lot of time with a special young lady i met when i was here in may. we went out to some crazy noodle place then came back to watch little miss sunshine. Afterwards i walked her to a taxi and said good night around 11:30. then talked on my cell to tommy he mentioned that he and nick were in a cab for huxley's ( best bar in beijing ). I jumped in a taxi and met them there. Randomly huxley was there we had a few whiskey gingers and swapped stories. tommy did the boldest thing i have ever heard of that night. ( cant post it sorry ). lets just say it was on par with the boom box scene in "say anything" then handjob rolled in bought some absinthe shots for all of us. we called it a night around 2. It was one of the best nights I have had in beijing.
thursday we swung by the magazine office again had lunch with more of his former coworkers. we ate at some sichuan spicey resturant. had the pepper corn fish dish made from the numbing spice which is illegal in the state. ( i hear there is one shop in D.C. that has some black market peppercorn ) then back to the magazine office tommy played celebrity then we went to head out and tommy decided to swing by the chinese sports illustrated office. of course tommy is buddies with the editor. he was a super nice guy. tommy told him about our vietnam trip and my photos. he then asked me if i would do some sports photography for sports illustrated.... i told him i never did that before... fuck. i should have said yes. i could have been a sports photgrapher in china taking pictures of ping pong and shit. unfortunately if i had accepted the job it would have violated the whole no work for 1 year thing. not much thurday night just had dinner and watched some of that micheal palin's himalaya travel documentary series. its pretty f'ing good.
friday was first day of class...major suckage (read other post)
Then was the pre st. pats festivities me and handjob got pimp ass matching green Ferrari jackets. we came home enjoyed a few whiskeys with tommy. then i met my special lady friend for dinner. we strolled down dongzhimen nei had an amazing dinner of peking duck and some drinks. ( for those back home i will let you know a fancy duck dinner for 2 with drinks only costs $8 ) afterwards we head back to my place and she helped me study my chinese for a little while then we headed off to a st pats party Cassey and her roomates were throwing in the building next to ours. The party uhm. Cassey is really cool but at the party was a different crowd than i am used to. There was an unusually high collared shirt sweater vest count there. And i don't think there were any chinese people there in fact it think it was all-american. There are many different social circles of expats here in beijing i tend to hang in a seedier internationally diverse crew of artists photographers and alchoholics. this crew was all ivy leaguer overachievers here to study chinese in beijing before going back to study law/business/doctor type stuff. did i mention the sweatervests? of course tommy is a stanford grad so he is the bridge to this scene. topics of conversations i heard... i wont even bore you by typing them. anyways party kind of sucked so tommy, handjob, my beautiful special ladyfriend, and I all bailed for nanjie to wash away the snobbery with some tsing tsao's. nanjie is beijings version of that fucked up bar from star wars ( the one where Han shot first not the pussier digitally remasterd version ). It by chance is also part owned by huxley from huxley's ( greatest bar in beijing ). any ways it was packed we had drinks with huxley talked about movies and called it an early night around 2 and headed home. even though the party sucked probably one of the best nights of my life.
now i am just chilling wearing some green watching ricky bobby waiting for tommy to get here so we can get our st. patricks day on!
I am bringing my camera so i can get this blog multimedia again!
word.
sitting here bored on st pats wearing green getting ready to paint the town green. I figured i would recap the week.
i have been slacking all week! i still haven't even developed any of the 40 rolls of film from my vietnam trip.
monday was the school thing with the magazine. dinner drinks yada yada yada.
tuesday night had dinner with some of tommy's ex-coworkers from this really important chinese financial magazine. its funny tommy started as an intern there and after a year apparently he was the man. for the first 6 months he lived in the editors house. after a few weeks noticing him constantly coming home around 1pm after a night of drinking she realized he had upper management potential. I guess they had him doing really important stuff. whenever we go over to the magazine for lunch the managing editor pulls tom into his office for a pow-wow and everyone treats him like a celebrity. crazy!
wednesday was kind of the an exciting night. me and the boys all had special dinners with special ladies that night. I have been spending a lot of time with a special young lady i met when i was here in may. we went out to some crazy noodle place then came back to watch little miss sunshine. Afterwards i walked her to a taxi and said good night around 11:30. then talked on my cell to tommy he mentioned that he and nick were in a cab for huxley's ( best bar in beijing ). I jumped in a taxi and met them there. Randomly huxley was there we had a few whiskey gingers and swapped stories. tommy did the boldest thing i have ever heard of that night. ( cant post it sorry ). lets just say it was on par with the boom box scene in "say anything" then handjob rolled in bought some absinthe shots for all of us. we called it a night around 2. It was one of the best nights I have had in beijing.
thursday we swung by the magazine office again had lunch with more of his former coworkers. we ate at some sichuan spicey resturant. had the pepper corn fish dish made from the numbing spice which is illegal in the state. ( i hear there is one shop in D.C. that has some black market peppercorn ) then back to the magazine office tommy played celebrity then we went to head out and tommy decided to swing by the chinese sports illustrated office. of course tommy is buddies with the editor. he was a super nice guy. tommy told him about our vietnam trip and my photos. he then asked me if i would do some sports photography for sports illustrated.... i told him i never did that before... fuck. i should have said yes. i could have been a sports photgrapher in china taking pictures of ping pong and shit. unfortunately if i had accepted the job it would have violated the whole no work for 1 year thing. not much thurday night just had dinner and watched some of that micheal palin's himalaya travel documentary series. its pretty f'ing good.
friday was first day of class...major suckage (read other post)
Then was the pre st. pats festivities me and handjob got pimp ass matching green Ferrari jackets. we came home enjoyed a few whiskeys with tommy. then i met my special lady friend for dinner. we strolled down dongzhimen nei had an amazing dinner of peking duck and some drinks. ( for those back home i will let you know a fancy duck dinner for 2 with drinks only costs $8 ) afterwards we head back to my place and she helped me study my chinese for a little while then we headed off to a st pats party Cassey and her roomates were throwing in the building next to ours. The party uhm. Cassey is really cool but at the party was a different crowd than i am used to. There was an unusually high collared shirt sweater vest count there. And i don't think there were any chinese people there in fact it think it was all-american. There are many different social circles of expats here in beijing i tend to hang in a seedier internationally diverse crew of artists photographers and alchoholics. this crew was all ivy leaguer overachievers here to study chinese in beijing before going back to study law/business/doctor type stuff. did i mention the sweatervests? of course tommy is a stanford grad so he is the bridge to this scene. topics of conversations i heard... i wont even bore you by typing them. anyways party kind of sucked so tommy, handjob, my beautiful special ladyfriend, and I all bailed for nanjie to wash away the snobbery with some tsing tsao's. nanjie is beijings version of that fucked up bar from star wars ( the one where Han shot first not the pussier digitally remasterd version ). It by chance is also part owned by huxley from huxley's ( greatest bar in beijing ). any ways it was packed we had drinks with huxley talked about movies and called it an early night around 2 and headed home. even though the party sucked probably one of the best nights of my life.
now i am just chilling wearing some green watching ricky bobby waiting for tommy to get here so we can get our st. patricks day on!
I am bringing my camera so i can get this blog multimedia again!
word.
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