Gary Soup is a retiree and reformed bloviator who is learning that brevity is the soul of wit and immediacy is the soul of communication, thanks to twitter (where he is @GarySoup), and now Posterous. He is obsessed with Shanghai, and with Chinese food and its place in the Grand Design of the universe, as evidenced by his other online posturings, which can visited through teleportal http://eatingchinese.org.