yes, they do eat cat

I saw one, roasted, hanging with the usual legs of pork, ready to be purchased for a cool 400 RMB [like more than $50]. apparently kitty cat is delicious, according to the woman who tried to sell it to me.

My journey started in Chengdu, capital of sichuan (http://youtube.com/watch?v=FzRH3iTQPrk&feature=related), saw the giantess buddha in leshan among the masses of tourists, slept with a mouse in my room who had a thing for the hotel soap. tried to buy tickets to western sichuan but apparently not only journalists are blocked, but everyone with the white white face. http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080406/NEWS07/804060661/1009/NEWS07

"It's for your safety". So I stayed around Chengdu, traveling with a college roomate, Margo. We traveled up a Daoist mountain to a village with no roads who grilled me why my president likes war and likes to kill people. I tried to explain the whole oil theory, but they weren't buying. A fellow tourist on the mountain had a t shirt (in English) that read: TIBExT ALWAYS IS, WAS, AND WILL BE PART OF CHINA. they wanted me to translate this for them. i did, and agreed wtih them, because I'm a Commy at heart, but historically, was anything really part of anything?
So, with my plan of ventures to western/ tibetaxn china now nixed "for my safety" i decided to hop a train to kunming, capital of yunnan, and head down to xi shuang ban na, where the happy minorities live (laos/ vietnam border area).

I should be returning to beijing in a few weeks, then home to CT beginning of june. hope everyone is well.