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At the back of the hill: ESSENTIAL NOODLES
I had just finished noshing on a meat and vegetable bun and a plate of small dumplings when she came in. She ordered a bowl of noodles and sat down at the counter to wait while it was being prepared. While observing her, I loaded my pipe. She did not look...
Dateline: 2013-05-21 9:48am -07:00T (417 words)
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At the back of the hill: INSPIRED BY GLASWEGIAN MORES
In absolute rejection of the point of view of a nanky Scots git with whom I had an argument, I propose that the liquid gold which is the blasted boggy homeland of smelly bandy-legged skirt-wearing men's only claim to fame be henceforth written 'viski'. If...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 10:48pm -07:00T (510 words)
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At the back of the hill: THIS IS THE PLACE
Once a week, for the past twenty years, I have been at the intersection of Pacific and Hyde Streets after two-thirty in the morning. It is the perfect place to have that last cigarillo of the night before going home to sleep. To my mind it is one of the ...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 8:03am -07:00T (439 words)
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At the back of the hill: THE HUNGRY DREAMS
What do you feel like? And what do you want to do? She wanted it all to herself. The cake, the pie, the ice-cream. Hot buttery crust, golden puff paste, and an enticing smell. Bakery aromas, sensuous fragrances. And she knew now where it could be found. S...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 11:18pm -07:00T (461 words)
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At the back of the hill: COLLEGIATE FANTASY
The spambot assault on the comments field continues, the war is unending. Despite the siege, however, this blogger is winning. Constant, recurring, and repetitive victory.It's rather like a video game. But without the sheer sense of achievement the player...
Dateline: 2013-05-19 7:18am -07:00T (481 words)
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At the back of the hill: THERE IS NONE OF THAT!
The other day I advised someone that tobacco mixtures containing Latakia and Turkish are "guaranteed wife repellent". This in regards to a product he intended to sample. He mentioned that his wife already makes him stand at the end of the yard any time he...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 10:33pm -07:00T (735 words)
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At the back of the hill: ON THE CUTTING EDGE OF CLOTHING
Often, when I head over to Marin County, there is a woman in her twenties or early thirties waiting at the same bus-stop for the city bus to go to work. She wears scrubs -- medical profession workwear -- and usually a coat because mornings in San Francisc...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 9:33am -07:00T (392 words)
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At the back of the hill: BEST MILK TEA IN SAN FRANCISCO
Over the past two years you have seen a term here fairly often that might have quirked your interest: Milk Tea (奶茶 naai cha). And perhaps you have understood that in the context of this blog and my own preferences it refers fairly strictly to the Hong...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 9:49am -07:00T (551 words)
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At the back of the hill: EXCITEMENT ELSEWHERE
Carefully and thoughtfully you apply your lipstick. What a pity that you will never wear it outside the house! It is, perhaps, too shocking, too blatant. And you know of no one who is worthy.I think I am, quite probably so. As well as just the right amoun...
Dateline: 2013-05-15 6:03pm -07:00T (413 words)
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At the back of the hill: ELDERLY GENTLEMEN ENJOYING THEIR AFTERNOON TEA
This blogger spent too much time in the company of the far-older-than-himself yesterday. Semi-anonymously, of course, as one presumes that a white person doesn't understand a lick of Cantonese.I'll admit that my conversational abilities are limited; the r...
Dateline: 2013-05-15 9:33am -07:00T (496 words)
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At the back of the hill: ALL ABOUT MILK TEA HONG KONG STYLE
While I type this I am at home enjoying a delicious cup of 港å¼å¥¶èŒ¶ (gongsik naaicha - Hong Kong style milk-tea). No, I didn't find the one single Chinatown bakery of myth and legend that has Wifi. I made it at home, using strong tea and sweetened co...
Dateline: 2013-05-14 9:03pm -07:00T (1132 words)
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At the back of the hill: HAAM SAP: A MASCULINE POINT OF VIEW
It's a very well-kept secret. It shouldn't be. I'll blow the lid. All men are haam sap.What baffles me is how many women do not realize this little fact. Perhaps it is because of a fundamental physiological difference between the genders. Women are on a t...
Dateline: 2013-05-14 9:48am -07:00T (731 words)
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At the back of the hill: AWAKE AND FULLY DREAMING
It just didn't seem quite right. She looked at herself in the mirror again, then concluded that like a fun-house speculus there was distortion. Those thighs. Chubby. Yet when she felt them with her hands, they were firm. Yes, she knew that as a woman she ...
Dateline: 2013-05-13 7:33am -07:00T (525 words)
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At the back of the hill: THE MEERSCHAUM PIPE
For several years I sneered at meerschaum pipes as wussy and over-the-top pretentious git smoking equipment. Surely, I reasoned, no sane man would be seen with a froo-froo carved object radiating mediocre aesthetic sense sticking out of his mouth? Even i...
Dateline: 2013-05-12 8:48pm -07:00T (505 words)
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At the back of the hill: GOATS ARE THE NEW EVIL
This shouldn't surprise you. You always knew something like this was going to happen.First the Doritos Goat Commercial. Then the racist sexist criminal goat fronting for a mediocre carbonated beverage.Eventually, a Batman enemy goat.Terrifying!But in the ...
Dateline: 2013-05-12 7:03am -07:00T (361 words)
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