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  • PauseTalk in December

    PauseTalk in December

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    The post was originally shared on the PauseTalk website. The next PauseTalk in Shanghai (Vol. 93) is set for Thursday, December 12, again at Bananafish New HQ. As usual, we’ll start the discussion at 19:30, and please note that there is no entry fee, and you are free to bring drinks and/or snacks. Here’s the Facebook event page, and as a…

  • Thrillin’ and Chillin’ in October 2024

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    Since I knew I’d be away for most of the month (on a trip to my hometown) I figured I wouldn’t be doing the annual horror marathon I’ve been doing in October for the past few years (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023), and so didn’t start the regular thread I do on X — one thing…

  • PauseTalk Vol. 92

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    This was originally posted to the PauseTalk website. PauseTalk Vol. 92 took place on Thursday, October 10 at Bananafish New HQ, and we had another great mix of participants which made for a fun couple of hours of discussion, from the ups and downs of working on projects for western brands in China, to the art scene in Shanghai (and China in general), with…

  • PauseTalk Vol. 91

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    This was originally posted to the PauseTalk website. PauseTalk Vol. 91 was held on Wednesday, August 28 at Garden Books, and it was a wonderful session. First off, it was the biggest group we’ve had so far in Shanghai – lucky 13 – which really tends to be the ideal size for this sort of thing…

  • PechaKucha Night Vol. 39

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    I’ve been bad at sharing updates here and I know I need to change that, but it doesn’t mean that I’m not as active as always with PechaKucha Nights and PauseTalks, with a few sessions of both having happened since I last wrote here. Our last PechaKucha Night in Shanghai, Vol. 39, was not only…

  • Like it’s 1984

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    I just finished my 1984 movie marathon (following 1967, 1968, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1993), and it does feel like the proper end of something. The first of these year-based movie marathons I’ve been doing was for movies from the year 1985, that I did…

  • A Summer of PKN & PT

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    It’s been a while since my last update, I know, but things keep on keeping. On the PechaKucha Night side of things, since April we held events both in May (Vol. 36, themed on “gaming”) and July (Vol. 37) at our usual venue of Studio 9. The July event marked the start of a “triple…

  • PauseTalk Next Week

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    One of the interesting things that has happened since my return to Asia is the return of PauseTalk. As I wrote in detail in this post, when I left Tokyo back in 2015 I also decided to put an end to my PauseTalk series (with Vol. 85). I wasn’t really interested in handing it over…

  • The Next Phase of JeanSnow.net

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    For a while now I’ve been thinking about what I would like to use this site for, and I now know what I’ll be doing. As is proclaimed in the tagline I’ve been using for a few years now, I’ve been “blogging since 1998,” starting the year I moved to Tokyo. The first post on…

  • Like it’s 1993

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    I overshot the end of 2023, but I finally finished my movie marathon for 1993 (following 1967, 1968, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, and 1992). There were still quite a few films I was thinking of watching (I didn’t even get to Jurassic Park), but after 30…