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My Journey To Shanghai – Part Deux

Monday, May 25th, 2009

“Angel is good. But when Angel is bad, it’s a big bad.” It was a warm Monday morning in Shanghai. Flora and I were about to head out for our first full day together when she stopped us short at my hotel room door. “Wait wait,” she said, “Your hair is-a messed. Let me fix.” [...]

My Journey To Shanghai China

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

“You are Satan. I am Angel. Therefore, our story will be one of Satan and the Angel.” From day 1, she had it all figured out. Flora, the impossibly cute Chinese girl who would be my guide for the next week in Shanghai, sized me up in an instant. Looking back at her through my [...]

Understanding Hedonism and Embracing Your Own Freedom

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

“No human thing is of serious importance.” – Plato “Pleasure is the beginning and end of living happily.” – Epicurus “A well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” – Leonardo da Vinci “One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly [...]