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11/23/2020
This Is Not Going to Fix Your Bike
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3/03/2016
Yang Chung-chou's Bridge
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4/16/2015
Comedy at The Hammer
Gary Patterson is involved in the English-speaking comedy scene here in Taipei. Over the past few decades, Patterson and other comedic rovers have been making the rounds, meeting at venues to crack wise and laugh it up. I met up with the comedian for a chat. I wanted to know why he does this. That is covered below. Patterson also filled me in on the history of stand-up in Taipei. He talked about what they had to go through in the early years, when Taiwan was still under martial law (1949-1987). The assertion of Taiwan's constitution and, in particular, freedom of speech, breathed energy into the movement in nineties. I will cover that part of our talk in a future post.
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1/13/2015
Movie Night at the Museum
We've already seen Klute, Wild Strawberries, Magnolias and Badlands among others. I'll put a link up to Jeremy Olivier's (who is by coincidence a distant relative of Laurence Olivier) write up of Badlands, which he did after that showing. Jeremy's piece speaks to the idea that something good is coming out of the movie nights -- they are not just an excuse to drink. On that note, Chris will have NT$100 sangrias and NT$300 corned beef and cabbage plates available. http://goo.gl/wgH4FF
Things will get under way at around 7:30.
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1/11/2015
She Is Feeling Nostalgic
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7/27/2014
Art at The Hammer
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7/11/2014
Craft Beer Catching on in Taiwan
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3/31/2014
Chinese Spare Ribs
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3/10/2014
The Scubar Opens Shop in Fulong, Taiwan
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3/08/2014
Money Laundering in Taiwan
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1/29/2014
Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City
Walt Whitman (1819 to 1892) included this poem in Leaves of Grass, which he was still editing on his deathbed:
ONCE I pass’d through a populous city, imprinting my brain, for future use, with its shows, architecture, customs, and traditions; | |
Yet now, of all that city, I remember only a woman I casually met there, who detain’d me for love of me; | |
Day by day and night by night we were together,—All else has long been forgotten by me; | |
I remember, I say, only that woman who passionately clung to me; | |
Again we wander—we love—we separate again; | 5 |
Again she holds me by the hand—I must not go! | |
I see her close beside me, with silent lips, sad and tremulous. |
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9/19/2013
Restaurant Atop Incinerator
There's a nice river walk behind the incinerator. It winds around for a while before letting out on a broken down and weedy path. You will have to talk to the locals to figure it out from this point on; or, you can simply walk back to the incinerator.
This was the gate to a private plantation. Not a lot in terms of cultivation going on inside, but it was still nice and green. The route is scenic to say the least.
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9/08/2013
White Sky Shaved Ice
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9/06/2013
One China Policy
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8/26/2013
Taxi Talk
I can't help but to think of recent news in regard to the "occupation" word. The KMT government has set about to revise "history" textbooks once again. The plan is to call the Japanese colonial era an occupation and then have it taught to our kids, even though Japan signed a treaty in 1895 to receive and govern Taiwan. The revisers are not calling the KMT arrival an "occupation of points of Japanese territory," etc. They don't seem to think it's an occupation at all.
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7/29/2013
Jinguashi Restaurant
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3/21/2013
Poor Boys and Pilgrims: Paul Simon Visits Taipei
Boy in the Bubble
That Was Your Mother
Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover
Mother and Child Reunion
You Can Call Me Al
Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
Slip Sliding Away
Kodachrome
Me and Julio
Obvious Child
I Would not Give You False Hope
Here Comes the Sun (Beatles)
He also played five Simon and Garfunkel songs:
Cecelia
The Only Boy in New York
Sounds of Silence (just Paul on the acoustic guitar)
Homeward Bound
The Boxer
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3/11/2013
Yang San Lang Art Museum
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1/07/2013
真男人: Taiwanese Marathoner
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1/06/2013
Taiwan's Climate, 1895
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1/01/2013
The Hammer -- A Customer's Shots
One of our customers took these shots of The Hammer's vicinity. I asked him to send them to me as I liked the tone. I also enjoy these kinds of photographs of Taipei and Taipei Greater. I often take pictures of old, tacky buildings and the like.
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