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Category Archives: Tourism Series

Soundbites: Xi’an music in the park

[Another episode in Tourism, the series. Other parts here]
On this summer day in Xi’an, the old plaque in the BJS studios was again sounding overly cynical.
Tourist, n. One who favors packaged over live, who inches squeamishly past the teeming fauna of his own backyard — with its outrageous comedies, its epic contests, its tawdry intrigues [...]

Posted 13 October 2009 † syz § BJS Daily § music ‡ Comments (0) °

Ninth Nevel

[Part 2 of Tourism, the series. Part 1 here]

Since it was a bit of a bah humbug attitude that launched the tourism series…

About Tourism, the series
Engraved into a sizable hunk of Labrador granite, on a pedestal in the executive anteroom at the Beijing Sounds Studios:
Tourist, n. One who favors packaged over live, who inches [...]

Posted 09 September 2009 † syz § L=N conflation ‡ Comments (5) °

Biang Biang Mian / Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Noodles (Tourism Series)

Tourism part 1: On embracing complexity [all in series]

About Tourism, the series
Engraved into a sizable hunk of Labrador granite, on a pedestal in the executive anteroom at the Beijing Sounds Studios:
Tourist, n. One who favors packaged over live, who inches squeamishly past the teeming fauna of his own backyard — with its outrageous comedies, its [...]

Posted 02 September 2009 † syz § EXMARaLDA transcriptions § speech acts ‡ Comments (4) °