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AdamMinter

So … I’m mostly offline until June 4, hidden away and finishing "Wasted" for @bloomsburypress See y'all in a month! 2:48 PM May 6th via web
But it takes lots of time to finish a book about the global waste and recycling industry. 2:47 PM May 6th via web
My upcoming book will feature scrap metal yards like this one. twitter.com/AdamMinter/sta… 2:47 PM May 6th via web
My upcoming book will feature scrap metal kings like this guy. twitter.com/AdamMinter/sta… 2:46 PM May 6th via web
kellystrib Only in MN... RT @nightnewspam Police scanner: Husband-wife domestic; they're throwing leeches at each other out of a fishing-bait bucket 11:17 AM May 6th via web Retweeted by AdamMinter and 13 others
@bokane @niubi "tears of a mao?" 3:31 AM May 6th via web in reply to bokane
dbrauer 100 years ago today, my wife's great-great-grandmother voted for 1st time (in an Oregon primary). She's in middle. twitter.com/dbrauer/status… 5:11 PM May 5th via Camera on iOS Retweeted by AdamMinter and 24 others
This is really something: "Delta Dawn: How Sears, Roebuck & Co. midwifed the birth of the blues" bit.ly/Kz50Rw @reason 4:02 PM May 5th via web
Great Sunday AM read: @jwassers on William Gibson and travel writing. bit.ly/IXjAaC I agree: @wired should send Gibson to Shanghai 3:58 PM May 5th via web
@jwassers Thanks, Jeff. That's very kind. 3:52 PM May 5th via web in reply to jwassers
Tremendous essay on the use and abuse of the Summer Palace - both historically and today. bit.ly/INH028 Big thumbs up from my sofa! 3:35 PM May 5th via web
Caixin essay on Chinese film criticizes Zhang Yimou's "erotic nationalism" praises Christian Bale's "everyday conduct." bit.ly/JLhHub 3:13 PM May 5th via web
"tiny earthquake" yesterday morning in Shanghai's Baoshan district. bit.ly/KaKYj7 one of "3 or 4" per year. Who knew? 3:02 PM May 5th via web
jonah_kessel Bride on great wall. instagr.am/p/KO4xD9w_8U/ 10:06 PM May 4th via Instagram Retweeted by AdamMinter and 1 other
abesauer Helen Keller sunglasses brand missing huge promotional opp in Chen Guangcheng affair. 5:26 PM May 4th via web Retweeted by AdamMinter and 5 others
Earlier today I joined @jwassers @keithrichburg @BelferCenter to talk Chen Guangcheng on KCRW's To the Point. Stream: bit.ly/IuzN1f 4:50 PM May 4th via web
samuel_wade Beaten with Sam's club? RT @AdamMinter: Wal-Mart customer buys expired sausage, complains. Dragged from store, beaten bit.ly/IKDOnc 4:01 PM May 4th via Tweetbot for iOS Retweeted by AdamMinter
Shanghai Wal-Mart customer buys expired sausage, complains to staff. 20 minutes later dragged from store, beaten silly. bit.ly/IKDOnc 3:53 PM May 4th via web
@RepSteveSimon stadiums, too, are brilliant and entertaining. 3:48 PM May 4th via web in reply to RepSteveSimon
Weeping clown with a smoke is one fine example of how China's propagandists are failing - badly. bit.ly/IPeg31 attn @_KatherineBrown 3:46 PM May 4th via web

Name Adam Minter
Location Shanghai
Web http://shanghaisc...
Bio A writer. Author of the forthcoming 'Wasted: Inside the Multi-Billion Dollar Trade in American Trash.' Contributor to Bloomberg World View. Expat Minnesotan.