We just returned from Chinatown where we rang in the new year. You can see the fireworks in New Yorks Chinatown at my youtube site www.youtube.com/profile The Year 2007 (Red Pig) is the 4704th Chinese year. The Chinese believe that the first king of China was the Yellow King (he was not the first emperor of China). The Yellow King became king in 2697 B.C., therefore China will enter the 4704th year on February 4th, 2007. Also, the Chinese Year uses the cycle of 60 Stem-Branch counting systems and the Red Pig is the 23rd Stem-Branch in the cycle. Since 4700 = (60 *78) + 24, therefore this Red Pig Year is the 4704th Chinese Year.

We just returned from the bitter end in the village where I on a whim told a story of revenge in front of 70 - 80 strangers. The moth story slam www.themoth.org brings out some good stories. They are going to have their next event in which you are invited to tell your tale. The theme: Love Hurts. Happens the night before valentines

In Williamsburg Brooklyn, hipster city of the world, Banksy has been making his standard political statements on the walls. Now the natives are fitting back, even going so far as evoking the Dadaists movement of the early 1900s

www.curbed.com/archives/2...invoked.php

We are in chicago this weekend to visit family. Coincidently the Chicago Bears are playing the New Orleans Saints for the NFC championship. I'm not a huge fan of the NFL or popular american sports in general. What I do get a kick out of is mass hysteria and that is what I am going to hope for tomorrow