Here We Go Again

Well hello again... it's your own favorite "dragon lady" from the days of yore (read: 2 days ago) in a whole new blog! I arrived in the Motherland (as my dear friend Kathy has been known to call it) yesterday at about 1:15 pm Shanghai time (12 hours ahead of Eastern Standard) and the adventures have already begun. Why the new platform, you might ask? Well, I came to this country aware of its YouTube censorship/prohibition, expectant of troubles with Facebook, and aware that there might be pages missing from any Western publications I chose to pick up. I did not anticipate that Blogspot would also be blocked (especially when so many other blogging sites are permitted... it doesn't make sense to me). However, that seems to be the way things stand, so [a href="http://wolongnu.blogspot.com">click here if you're interested in my few back entries[/a>, but henceforth this is where I'm setting up shop. (If you're hoping to read up on John Wayne Gacy Jr., as inspired by a Sufjan Stevens song, I recommend you do that before you get to China as well. Otherwise you'll be presented with the deceptive "Page Load Error" screen that

Jiaxing, China