Posts tagged ‘Photo’

MMMmm Meat!

June 21st, 2009

delicious duck's blood -- my favorite

That’s right tweeeple, couldn’t help but hit you with my favorite line from Clueless in that title therrre. After some serious template meddling/quasi-arguing with tweeps about whether or not people are actually tweeting out of Iran (are they?) I’m packing it in and heading home for some one-pot noodle. However, I’d rather be eating this no doubt delicious dish just up above in that pic: Poached jellied duck blood & eel & pigs intestines in pungent sauce. I mean seriously, wouldn’t you? ...READ MORE

The Dollar’s Weak but the Pound is Strong

May 28th, 2009

I don't dig the policies but... that's pretty badass on all sides. Obama gives a midget Norwegian a pound.

I don’t dig the policies but… that’s pretty badass on all sides. Obama gives a midget Norwegian a pound.

The New Republic
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Once Upon a Time in China

May 14th, 2009
new project in the works

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shrine / koh samet / thailand

May 10th, 2009
shrine

These often had glass bottles full of read liquid by them. but since strawberry Fanta and gasoline came in the same bottles in the same syrupy red color I don’t know which it was. Maybe 50/50, it’s hard for me to imagine which of the two liquids the gods would prefer. ...READ MORE

Staring at the sun

May 3rd, 2009

staring at the sun

You can check websites, or even get the daily air pollution numberes twittered to you, but if you really need further confirmation of how bad the air is – if the heavy gray cloud and slightly smoky taste in your mouth aren’t enougth – try staring at the sun. Yup, on extremely smoggy days in Beijing you can do what your parents and teachers always warned you not to, stare directly at the sun. It’s not as cool as it sounds, because while your eyes may not be burning, your throat is.
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the old new china buffet + my eybrow

February 12th, 2009
the old new china buffet

the old new china buffet on south 27th street. diversity in action. on the left is a table full of hispanic dudes, above them back on the wall are hats for sale – one of them has a dollar sign pattern flaking off it, all are 6 dollars and being sold by the chinese man working the door. cry me a metaphor.

the chilled beverage center has horchata and there are wings, pizza, fries, potato salad, and jello; along with crab legs (please only take 5), brown sauced noodles, garlic bread, and more. there are young black women with a lot of children and more hispanic guys with tattoos on their necks. a table full of middle eastern men whose dress and ages range from office to hip-hop.

at the table with my eyebrow are an older white man, an older chinese man who immigrated from shanghai via hong kong in the 70s, and his son who uses his new film degree to make music videos in ...READ MORE

cctv9

January 18th, 2009
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the cctv building. waiting to go into the China International Gallery Expo ‘08. since the art market, like every other market, is tanking this year’s CIGE will probably be a whole lot sparser. the cctv tower will be fininished though and it looks fantastic. the structure is dynamic, as your taxi twists around one of the nearby massive interchanges wthe building turns with you. a steal at 700 or so million dollars
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the venice of china

January 16th, 2009
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an hour or so out of hangzhou. actually if you google ‘venice of china’ you get a number of answers, none of which seemed to be this place – unfortunately i’ve forgotten the name. i keep thinking it’s chao xian but that actually means north korea. despite the bank builidngs looming in the backgrounds over tiled roofs this place still feels old and untouched. there are pepsi signs, sure, but they’re salvaged banners sewn together to create umbrellas and into curtains to separate rooms. like many places in china – including the dusty brick villages slapped up around glowing drainage ditches not far from our beijing home – clothes are washed in the water.

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me w olympic light

January 15th, 2009

the 08 olympics, i’ve just run in with the with olympic torch (gripped in my right hand) and as you can see from my pit stains, i brought it all the way from greece. steph got us tickets to see the jamaicans absolutely dominate track and field. it was awesome.

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blood on the tracks

January 13th, 2009

click your way over to echinacities to find how i almost killed one of my students: Only One Student Needed Stitches – Teaching English Horror Stories

what my students see
drawing of the author by one of the students who lived to make art about it

and be grateful you’re not traveling by train in China in the next 40 days. or if you do try to extend that empathy towards the people working in the stations everyday – 2.32B to travel during Spring Festival – that B stands for BILLION.
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