jane dark's sugarhigh!

It's a frickin' "water bar," which may be funny to French Buddhists because it would translate as "bar d'eau"

I am posting from Colette, where the water comes in fewer varieties than it used to (maybe only 50 now), the coffee is now Starbuck's (fuck that fronting), the clothing boutique upstairs is, you know, curated, and the wi-fi blazes like Big Baby Jesus's pipe just before five-oh puts their cherries on blast.

And I would like to toss up some Beijing pix, so I think I will. Here are three I took with Steve in mind: representative views of an apartment building near the Third Ring Road. Might as well call it Beijing Modernism; boxy glass-n-steel window settings, often wrapping around corners of buildings. It's a look that's rare and expensive in the US; here, it's profoundly everywhere, in a way that one owuld probably get used to after a couple weeks. I had four days, and thought it was magnificently strange.

Click on the thumbnails for a larger version.