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Oct 30, 2011 | Categories: China, Jinhua, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week | Tags: Chinese students, costumes, crowds, flags, panda, photography, sports, stereotypes | 1 Comment »
Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 54* A Visit from the Earplugs and Beer Man ‘Twas the night before Xmas and all through the city, Not a whore was motionless, not even the un-pretty. The sausages hung from the wires with care, In hopes that Sheng Dan Lao Ren soon would be there. The foreigners [...]
Dec 25, 2010 | Categories: China, Nanjing, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week | Tags: Chinese, chinglish, christmas, Foreigners in China, Humor, Poetry | Leave A Comment »
Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 2.02 Finally, America’s own version of the Chinese fire drill is over. Close the doors. Time to move on. But in the wake of so many changes, as the anxiety and rage of all sides subsides, it is natural to wonder: what is America? What kind of a place [...]
Nov 05, 2010 | Categories: America, China, Jinhua, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week | Tags: 2010 elections, american dream, consumerism, Dreams, mobile camper, Progress, RVs, Shopping, Wal-Mart | 1 Comment »
Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 2.01 It’s about time we told you. We came back. A lot of famous things have been said about home: it’s “why I keep returning,” it’s “where I want to be,” it’s “always so exciting,” etc. All catchy ideas that I’ll admit to singing along with and perhaps even [...]
Sep 23, 2010 | Categories: China, Jinhua, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week | Tags: chinese workers, Construction, David Byrne, foreigners, home, kitchen | 1 Comment »
Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 68 In the dark corner of a far away forlorn church stand these three forgotten souls. Bruised, dirty, chipped and abandoned they doze like wallflowers in the shadows as patrons play hooky for every reason but lack of sin. In their bright vestments creased with dust the saints and [...]
Feb 09, 2010 | Categories: America, Europe, France, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week | Tags: american football, Catholicism, christianity, Jesus, religion, superbowl, tea party | Leave A Comment »
Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 67 When it’s 90 plus degrees with 100% humidity and your neighbor’s coal smoke is pumping along with the encephalitis mosquitoes through your broken window screen and down on the street the men who actually wear shirts have them rolled up past their nipples, while inside your apartment the [...]
Jun 09, 2009 | Categories: China, Nanjing, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week | Tags: chinese people, expats, foreigners, Gross, hot, humidity, Humor, leaving, rain, social commentary, stinky, summer, the butcher | Leave A Comment »
Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 65 Hey! You! Hippopotamus! Yeah, you. Can you take a hint? I’ll crouch here, wiping this soapy water over my non-smelly motorbike while you fat, needy beast wallow there in your own filth with a perfectly good bathtub not 5 feet away. You’d think you’re some sort of Mongol [...]
May 12, 2009 | Categories: China, Nanjing, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week | Tags: chinese zoo, foreigners, hippopotamus, Humor, maintenance, mammals, round eyes, smelly animals, stinky, washing motorbikes | 2 Comments »
Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 64 There is a new stench in the monkey house. In addition to the usual miasma of scattered manure and stale ejaculations that your primordial brethren so love to assault your intruding nasal passages with lay heaps of molding unconsumed Chinese food morsels, at once proving the ape’s superior [...]
Apr 25, 2009 | Categories: China, Nanjing, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week | Tags: breaking the rules, Humor, monkeys, ridiculous chinese people, social commentary, teaching your kids to be idiots, tormenting animals, Zoo | 1 Comment »
Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 62 The boy stands spinning the long thread of twisted foil with unfettered fascination. His eyes, in following the shiny extension of his arm, cause his head to move in small circular nods as though also attached to the magical whip. Much like the powers of Dorthy’s tornado, this [...]
Apr 10, 2009 | Categories: China, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week | Tags: escapism, Humor, imagination, Lijiang, poop, shiny things, social commentary, Travel, Wizard of Oz | Leave A Comment »
Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 61 “Baba, where is our roof?” “Aiyo! Do not be so ignorant. Even a simple man could see that it has been harmonized.” “But Baba, why our roof and not the Tailor’s next door?” “Ungracious too! Have I raised a horse’s ass? You know very well that we are [...]
Mar 21, 2009 | Categories: China, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week | Tags: baba, Chinese neighborhood, communism, destruction, Government, Humor, Noodles, Progress, roof, social commentary | Leave A Comment »
Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 60 See that mark? That carefully printed red symbol on the far right that looks similar to the tattoos American teenagers like to have injected permanently into their skin? Unlike those, this is not a sign of innocence. This is the chai, indicating the approach of doom. The mark [...]
Mar 13, 2009 | Categories: China, Nanjing, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week | Tags: Anthropology, butcher, change, Chinese neighborhood, destruction, Progress, tofu man, vendors | 2 Comments »
Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 58 A Bedtime Story Once there lived a little gun made of the finest metals called Little Red Killing Hood. She was a spoiled gun as both her Country and the World loved her very much. One day, when her Country was making trouble, it said, “My child, you [...]
Feb 21, 2009 | Categories: America, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week, Vietnam | Tags: Guns, Hippies, Military, social commentary, Vietnam War, Violence, War | Leave A Comment »
Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 57 Garbage garbage all over the place, In your belly, On your face. Garbage for seeing, Garbage for yelling, Garbage for listening, Garbage for smelling. If it weren’t for garbage I don’t know what I’d do, Certainly this poem wouldn’t be here for you. Share this:EmailRedditStumbleUponDigg
Feb 11, 2009 | Categories: China, Nanjing, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week | Tags: garbage, Humor, poem, rhymes, social commentary, stinky | Leave A Comment »
Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 56 Once upon a time, shelter was constructed from only so much as sticks, mud, and skin. The functionality of these primitive structures was basic and limited. They provided mild protection from the elements and a sense of warmth to cold bodies. To the inhabitants of the era they [...]
Jan 18, 2009 | Categories: America, China, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week | Tags: 21st century, architecture, art, birds nest, cctv building, Humor, linked hybrid, pakistan, shelter, social commentary, the jia, woolly mammoth, World | Leave A Comment »
Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 55 As I lay strategically flattened to the bed so that my nose pours steadily through a box of tissues instead of down into my lungs, and the pressure on the back of my eyes forces me to squeeze them small into a squint so as to prevent them [...]
Jan 06, 2009 | Categories: China, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week | Tags: being sick, Expat, hawking, Humor, I have a cold, new year's day, Pig, social commentary, spitting | Leave A Comment »
Totally Awesome Picture of the week 53 Is this how you feel? As though you’ve been stripped naked, skewered through the eye sockets and rotated continuously from bright light to roasting flame, flopping lewdly at the mercy of gravity, doing your best to keep what’s left of your eyes on the man with the cleaver, [...]
Dec 18, 2008 | Categories: China, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week | Tags: Chinese Food, christmas, Expat, Humor, lost in translation, social commentary, western culture | Leave A Comment »
Totally Awesome Picture of the week 52 “Makin it civilized, makin it fine, oh, we’re building a wall, so they can knock down mine!” – verse one of the contemporary workers tune Ode to the Hutongs A renaissance of blue-collar work-related musical creativity seems to be occurring throughout China. “Along with spreading capitalistic tendencies for [...]
Dec 10, 2008 | Categories: China, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week, Yichang | Tags: blue collar, blues, bricks, chinese culture, Construction, folk music, music, social commentary, walls | Leave A Comment »
Totally Awesome Picture of the week 50 Oh to kick it on the stoop. Watching traffic with a lukewarm Tsing Tao and a radio buzzing federal propaganda. Wearing snoopy pajamas and slippers. The ideal everyday afternoon. The perfect demonstration of leisure. But alas! My home, my stoop, my radio, the cushion of my chair, even [...]
Nov 26, 2008 | Categories: China, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week | Tags: Beer, change, excrement, Expat, old chinese people, poop, sitting, social commentary, stoop, tsing tao, watching traffic | 1 Comment »
Totally Awesome Picture of the week 49 “The power of Dreams! The Happiest Place on Earth. Think outside the bun! Taste the rainbow. Just do it! Be all that you can be. Just for the taste of it! Have it your way. Obey your thirst! I’m lovin’ it. They’re GRRREAT! Melts in your mouth, not [...]
Nov 22, 2008 | Categories: America, China, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week | Tags: catchphrases, consumerism, economy, ma la tang, money, slogans, social commentary, Soup, winning, yes we can | Leave A Comment »
Summer in China – A Season for Leaving
Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 67 When it’s 90 plus degrees with 100% humidity and your neighbor’s coal smoke is pumping along with the encephalitis mosquitoes through your broken window screen and down on the street the men who actually wear shirts have them rolled up past their nipples, while inside your apartment the [...]
Jun 09, 2009 | Categories: China, Nanjing, Totally Awesome Picture of the Week | Tags: chinese people, expats, foreigners, Gross, hot, humidity, Humor, leaving, rain, social commentary, stinky, summer, the butcher | Leave A Comment »