Not quite Brendan... it's that I'm mucking around with the backend implementing Xiao Hu's suggestions, something which means zjv5002 should now be getting emailed this discussion about the broken commenting system (hi Zach -- let us know what you think).

On the publication front... I'd actually like to do something like this. I think physical mailings make sense as part of a premium-tier subscription, and that we could combine current affairs and media coverage with language learning stuff in an interesting way. That said, it's a cost issue as always, not only in the time it would take to prepare, but in mailing and printing. Which means we'll need to be much larger before we can afford it.

As for the coffee table... I'm not sure where we gave off the impression of having coffee, let alone a coffee table. That said, while I'll grab stuff from the local 报亭 when it grabs my eye, most of the things I read in the Chinese media at this point are online and I think the same holds for Echo, especially now that she's co-opted our danwei ipad, which was mysteriously renamed "Echo's iPad" within about an hour of purchase.