RETURN TO EPISODE 5 – PART 1 VIEW THE FOREMAN IN ITS ENTIRETY See The Foreman and other comics at Resolving Chaos Share this:EmailRedditStumbleUponDigg
Apr 25, 2011 | Categories: China, Comics, The Foreman | Tags: Balloons, chairwoman, china comic, Construction, drawing, hairdos, Humor, illustration, lines, social commentary, webcomic | 1 Comment »
RETURN TO EPISODE 4 – PART 2 VIEW THE FOREMAN IN ITS ENTIRETY Share this:EmailRedditStumbleUponDigg
Apr 08, 2011 | Categories: China, Comics, The Foreman | Tags: Balloons, china comic, Construction, drawing, Dreams, Humor, lines, nightmare, social commentary, webcomic | Leave A Comment »
Episode 4 – Part 2
Mar 09, 2011 | Categories: China, Comics, The Foreman | Tags: animals in cages, china comic, drawing, fear, Humor, panic, social commentary, webcomic, Zoo | Leave A Comment »
Some Smoggy City, CHINA – While Americans bicker over economic policies and try to disagree on the best way to guide the nation toward prosperity, it seems the object of Adam Smith’s over-referenced phrase has floated across the Pacific to get itself dirty (quite literally) in a different kind of muck. Skeptics will no doubt [...]
Mar 05, 2011 | Categories: China, NEWS FLASH | Tags: capitalism, communism, consumerism, economics, economy, fake news, free market, invisibility, invisible hand, Pollution, smog, social commentary | Leave A Comment »
A building is a magical thing. However, as a resident, whether temporary or permanent, getting to know your own building can be confusing, if not scary. At times you may wonder what goes on within its walls, or below the floorboards. You may be concerned about the shifting of doors and cabinets, or the loosening [...]
Feb 26, 2011 | Categories: China, Jinhua, This Ridiculous World Guide | Tags: apartment, architecture, chinese buildings, Construction, Deteriorating pipe, dust, life stages, mystery, Pollution, social commentary, travel guide | Leave A Comment »
The Escape List: Postcards From Tomorrow Square by James Fallows *Editor’s Note: The Escape List originally existed as a separate identity from TRW. However, as busy readers and watchers we thought we ought to include some exposure for the various China-related (defined as broadly as we decide) media we have ingested and try to put [...]
Feb 19, 2011 | Categories: America, China, The Escape List | Tags: Atlantic Monthly, books, fear, James Fallows, Politics, postcards, reading, reviews, social commentary | Leave A Comment »
Episode 1
Dec 13, 2010 | Categories: China, Comics, The Foreman | Tags: cars, china comic, comic, Construction, graphic story, hats, neighborhood, shops, social commentary, Street, webcomic | Leave A Comment »
“World War Two Edition in Memory of US Army” Dear Pabst Blue Ribbon, We know you. Pibber. P-B-R. We know you embarrassingly well. Pabst Blue Ribbon, unofficial cheap beer of choice for American hipster youth. We charge you with attempting to establish yourself as the representative drink of choice in a slightly different niche market [...]
Nov 26, 2010 | Categories: China, Letters to Whomever | Tags: Beer, china hates japan, hipsters, Humor, japan, Pabst Blue Ribbon, PBR, social commentary, United States of America, World War II | 1 Comment »
Where is the oversight? This fall my boss rented me out to a kindergarten where her sister-in-law is principal. My new duty involves teaching four and five-year-olds to embrace the most important aspects of Western culture (for two half hour lessons each week). At first I thought they said I’d be teaching English, but evidently [...]
Oct 15, 2010 | Categories: C Destroys E, China, Jinhua | Tags: China destroys English, english basics, Humor, social commentary, something is broken, teaching english in china, That's Not English | 2 Comments »
Stuff People Ingest Voluntarily episode 31 Before you start accusing us of focusing on the poor, fading laundry as part of our own Antonioni scheme to sabotage the world’s image of an entire nation, let us be clear: we are more interested in the one small bright square so carefully preserved like some tiny peep [...]
Mar 05, 2010 | Categories: China, Nanjing, Stuff People Ingest Voluntarily | Tags: Antonioni, beverages, cement, chai, Cina, consumerism, corn juice, corny, destruction, development, drinks, Expat, laundry, Progress, social commentary, tea, the future, Travel | 3 Comments »
Part One: The Patrons A Chinese museum is a fascinating place. Not because of the exhibitions of history. No, in a country with a heritage longer than that of Jesus the ubiquitousness of artifacts is less impressive than expected. Nowadays, with a proliferation of middle class Chinese people embracing all forms of consumerism, even intellectual, [...]
Feb 14, 2010 | Categories: China, This Ridiculous World Guide | Tags: chinese people, consumerism, crowds, history, museum, social commentary, Tourism | 2 Comments »
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Feb 06, 2010 | Categories: Europe, Other, Spain, Traces of Progress | Tags: basque country, camino de santiago, discontent, discussion, dissent, graffiti, outhouse, social commentary, spray paint, subversion | 1 Comment »
Dear Big Ants Who Were Bossing Around the Little Ants, First, I must say that you look crazy up close. Sorry, but I have been a little off lately and have found that brushing aside distractions clears up a path towards almost clarity. Share this:EmailRedditStumbleUponDigg
Jun 20, 2009 | Categories: China, Letters to Whomever | Tags: ants, ants in the kitchen, Chinese Food, Expat, food scraps, foreign teacher, Humor, IELTS, social commentary | 1 Comment »
What this substantial piece of city land is doing unpaved and undeveloped is a mystery of commerce and real estate. Whatever the reason, that red flag piercing the mud surely indicates a coming edifice. A new age high rise, perhaps? Another shopping mall? Share this:EmailRedditStumbleUponDigg
Jun 17, 2009 | Categories: China, Nanjing, Prime Real Estate | Tags: building, chinese construction, Humor, land, mud, property, real estate, social commentary | 1 Comment »
Nanjing, CHINA – After three days of continuous drilling the unidentified mustached man on the ladder finally made it through the cement and brick wall and into lucky classroom 8. Though his workspace partially blocked the steps of the entrance to the main building the man’s progress went unimpeded and unquestioned throughout. Students of class [...]
Jun 16, 2009 | Categories: China, Nanjing, NEWS FLASH | Tags: cell phones, Chinese education, Chinese students, drilling, foreign teachers, Humor, social commentary | 1 Comment »
Coming from America, or some nation similarly skilled in methods of clandestine waste removal – with magic, automatic flush toilets; color-coded trash bins; and troops of picker-uppers who carouse the streets in great machines with as much authority as fire engines – such unglamorous, undisguised removal may be a bit shocking. Here in this ancient [...]
Jun 15, 2009 | Categories: China, Nanjing, This Ridiculous World Guide | Tags: excrement, garbage, Humor, refuse, slop buckets, social commentary, Trash, waste | Leave A Comment »
Two pigs beget one. Such is the way of pigs, as it has been since the beginning. In the first months, Pig rolls amid the muck, snorts his own excrement, and eats whatever morsels and collected orts are deposited into his sty. It is a base life, one of pure sensory perception, instinct, and consumption, [...]
Jun 13, 2009 | Categories: America, China, Fables, Other, Vietnam | Tags: consumption, excrement, Humor, instinct, perception, pigs, social commentary, stories, swine | Leave A Comment »
Don’t make light of this folks! This sophisticated sorceress of polyester tunics and sequined stretch capris is more than a granny before her time! That’s right ladies and gentlemen, this here happy momma has more surprises than a Magic Marker and more class than an Asian high school student! You may have a difficult time [...]
Jun 11, 2009 | Categories: China, Modern Wonders of the World, Nanjing | Tags: alchemy, chinese fashion, chinese people with bleached hair, gold, Humor, poop, sideshow, social commentary | Leave A Comment »
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Jun 10, 2009 | Categories: China, Nanjing, Traces of Progress | Tags: ash trays, Chinese Food, chinese teachers, cucumber, eating cucumbers like candy, Humor, middle school teachers lounge, social commentary | 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 »
While most travelers come to this great land in order to see the famous structures it has erected – ancient walls, temples, and fortresses, or even the more recently built stadiums and towers – they regrettably miss out on another important, and arguably more impressive, sightseeing possibility. Here, not only can one witness marvels of [...]
Jun 08, 2009 | Categories: China, This Ridiculous World Guide | Tags: bricks, destruction, detritus, Humor, Progress, Rubble, sight-seeing, smashing, social commentary, Tourism | Leave A Comment »
The Foreman’s Nightmare – Part 2
RETURN TO EPISODE 5 – PART 1 VIEW THE FOREMAN IN ITS ENTIRETY See The Foreman and other comics at Resolving Chaos Share this:EmailRedditStumbleUponDigg
Apr 25, 2011 | Categories: China, Comics, The Foreman | Tags: Balloons, chairwoman, china comic, Construction, drawing, hairdos, Humor, illustration, lines, social commentary, webcomic | 1 Comment »