Well, the few of you who have kept checking this site, I applaud your sticktoitiveness and loyalty. You’re probably wondering why it seems Flumesday has gone from a dynamic China-based news website to the tame, tickerless blog you see before you. I’ll tell you. After two years living in Shanghai, writing and pursuing different projects, I have moved back to New York to work as a blog editor for a popular news site. I thought that I might be able to keep up Flumesday with the tenacity and devotion I gave to it while living in China. I was wrong. I quickly realized that the essence of Flumesday was, in fact, China and the fact that the guy writing it was living there. I haven’t lost my interest in China, nor have I lost my zeal for reading stories relating to China and offering my take. But I find myself with a new job and new surroundings that have somewhat limited my time and ability to maintain two daily news columns — one about China and one about the U.S. — as I did with the old Flumesday. And forget about keeping up a daily headline ticker. So, I’ve decided to do what any man must do when his scrotum does not sit comfortably in his underwear — adjust. And I have adjusted. I redesigned the site to make it more of a blog, which gives me more freedom to write about whatever I want and more importantly, whenever I want. And there doesn’t seem to be as good of a reason anymore to separate China and U.S. topics. Basically, it makes more sense. So if you’ve lost your faith in Flumesday, I understand, and thanks for the memories. But in the coming weeks, now that I’ve adapted to this New York life — with HD television, uncensored internet and all the food delivery options someone with HDTV and an internet connection could ever wish for — it is time to revive Flumesday. Someone even asked me if Flumesday had “pulled a Heath Ledger.” Too soon.

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