Belle Yang | Belle Yang
Sep.28.2008
I started blogging on Redroom in January. At first, no one paid me much mind, and I wasn't quite sure what I was doing as a blogger. I was unclear on the blogging concept, so I just wrote about whatever came to mind during the first 45 minutes of my day.
One day, a woman named Belle Yang...
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Sep.26.2008
In 1960, the year I was born on the island of Taiwan, my father, the dean of a private school and my mother, a teacher of Chinese literature at the same, jointly made the equivalent of 60 US dollars each month.
My baby formula consumed a third of their income, another third went to cafeteria fees...
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Sep.15.2008
“Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others”- Carl Fox, “Wall Street” (quoted after Black Friday 1987)
This is my day's production as I listened to the news of Lehman Brother's...
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Sep.14.2008
I've been sick this week, and I managed only three pages on the graphic novel. The third page below was done today. The Chinese speak of "chi" or life force.
I slept a record 17 hours straight last night.
My "chi" was not strong today, even with so much sleep, and the...
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Sep.06.2008
1. Click here for a few reunion pictures, courtesy of Stan Fairbank
username: friendofsf
password: photography
(www.Stanfairbank.com)
2. Click here for lots of pictures, courtesy of Troy Davis!
3. Steven Bergman Photography, please follow directions below (this link no...
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Sep.02.2008
8 AM My shadow on the sand. Waiting for a friend for our walk on the beach. Was stood up. (Third time with this same individual.)
9 AM Returned home to work on a graphic novel page.
I rarely create sequential art of movement. My panels tend to be images separated by significant...
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Aug.28.2008
This is in reply to Scott Holstad's post. Famous poets I've read and met. You won't find me swooning over film stars or politicians, but poets! The poets
There was time when our Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation had an active poetry reading program. Lequita Vance-Watkins, herself a poet,...
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Aug.26.2008
From the manner in which the Chinese athletes win and lose, you can see the degree of freedom the people of the Middle Kingdom truly have. “The agony of defeat” is far more excruciating if the gymnast has yet to earn the home she has been promised, should she win gold. If the home is taken away...
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Aug.16.2008
I am ready. I am so ready. Dress, check, shoes, check, dj, coq au vin or salmon, name tags of classmates and their spouses, three teachers to honor, the banquet room decorations, check, check, check, check and check. Babysitters for classmates, check, an on going PowerPoint slide show on...
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Aug.06.2008
Playwright, journalist, art historian, Steve Hauk is creating with his art historian wife, Nancy, a Steinbeck show at their gallery, Hauk Fine Arts, which runs September 5 through October 18.
The show is in conjunction with the publication of Steve’s remarkable piece, “Steinbeck Armed: (A Colt...
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