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Blues & Bar-B-Q Bash in Taiwan
A report on the very first festival of Blues music ever held in Taiwan.
Brushed by Catastrophe: an Eye-witness Account of the Tsunami
An eye-witness account of the Boxing Day Tsunami that devastated 9 countries leaving more than 150,000 dead and millions homless.
My Cushiest Job Ever - part 2
The author's second installment of the tale of the cushiest job he ever had.
The Cushiest Job Ever
The first in a series of reminiscences and reflections on projects, jobs and endeavors undertaken by the author with a focus, this month, on a paid postion once held him which provided an unusual challenge.
Terminal Security
The gripe-of-the-month is airport security.
The Tao of Traffic: Bardo the Third
Traffic in Taipei and Asia generally is not based on precepts of cooperation but rather on caos theory.
The Tao of Traffic: The Second Bardo
More palaver about traffic in Taiwan.
The Tao of Traffic: The First Bardo
After many cycles of deep meditation following the complete re-construction of my living quarters to conform to the principles of Feng-shuei so as to attain harmonomious relationship with the World, a revelation has come to me. Traffic here is nuts.
Taiwan: Election 2004
An article wherein the author reports some of the major events of Taiwan's presidential election.
Land of the Fat-Free, Home of the Super-Sized
A cry for help whereby the author, distraught over his own weight, attempts to ameliorate his anxiety by pointing his still-slender finger at mall-based Americans 'of size'.
Lunar New Year Notes
A few belatedly reported observances regarding Chinese Lunar New Year, 2004
The Moot at the Marathon
A short report concerning the author's attendance of the marathon showing of Peter Jackson's cinematic rendering of Tolkien's 'Lord of the Rings'.
Heart, Soul, and Music Stands
Yet another railing by the author against the insensible tempest of modern life in Taiwan.
Curses! The Bambino, the Billy-goat and Baseball Balderdash
A brief introduction to two of the most infamous 'Curses' of American professional baseball and a brief rasberry imparted by the author thereat.
Accidents Waiting to Happen
Wherein the writer, with contumelious contumacy, derides yet another facet of Chinese society.
My Sunshine Feel-good Piece
An article wherein the author attempts a 'Reader's Digest' approach to anecdotal writing in an effort to placate a certain 'concerned and disappointed' family member.
Up the Down-stairs Nut-case
A declamation of events whereby the author proffers further anecdotal evidence of illogic in Chinese society particularly within the context of noise and the tolerance thereof.
Flogging A Deceased Equine Carcass
Wherein the author attempts yet another stab at explaining the unexplainable and delineating the insubstantial.
Middle-aged in Middle-Earth
Wherein, the author, faced with a grim procession natural catastrophes and crises both mid-life and medical, waffles on the high road of responsibility and opts for escape in the world of phantasmagoric literature and peurile word-play.
5000 Years of Sycophancy, Serfdom and Despotism (but who's counting?)
The author's ethnocentric assessment of Chinese culture feebly substantiated by an obviously slanted over-view of Chinese history. (No pun intended.)
Embedded with the CNN Road show: “GWII – Baghdad or Bust”
Wherein the writer, deftly side-stepping political issues, expresses his pique at the dunder-headedness of certain reporters who pester professional military men with rumor, insinuation and second-guessing of tactics, strategy and operations.
CNYII
Round two of who-knows-how-many in a series of articles relating the author's besotted recollections and churlish analysis of what he dimly remembers happening to either him or somebody else during Chinese New Year.
Chinese Looney New Year
The first of a what has turned out to be something other than a two-part treatise addressing the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday with special attention placed on its origins, its incongruity to the Western calendar and how inconvenient the whole mess is to the writer personally.
The Supercalifragilistic Bowl
The author quacks on about Super Bowl howevermany with the misguided notion that his personal viewing experience of this annual spectacle might somehow, someway be of some interest to somebody.
Fast Food, Famine and Fol-de-rol
Yet another helping of disgusting foreign food-stuffs focusing on Chinese/Taiwanese gastronomic transgressions interspersed with the author's own specious insights.
Talk About Identity Problems...
Taiwan is a very special case: It's a thriving, prosperous country which isn't a country except in its own collective noggin.
La Choy, it ain't.
A kitchen tour of the sensational world of Chinese cuisine with special attention paid to its most disgusting dishes.
The X-Games: Serious Goofing Around
A diatribe against an obnoxious, invasive juvenile pass-time whereby the author hopes to enlighten the reader as to what fittingly constitutes games and sports by example, definition and decree.
Paean to a Shoat-clad Ovoid
An essay wherein the author attempts to paradoxically juxtapose the American-style of grid-iron football with concepts such as transendence, myth, legend, the collective unconscious and various other terms with which he is only vaguely familiar.
Brother, Can You Spare a Storyline?
Recounting an encounter with a pan-handler in Amsterdam followed by a brief critique of same.
Further Musings on the 'Tree of Life' Parable
Chinese society is a whole other ball of wax. Children in Chinese society have constraints placed on them which Western kids would never tolerate.
Climbing the Tree of Life
A brief discussion inspired by a modern Chinese parable regarding an East/West dichotomy.
Some More Chinese Culture (and all that noise)
More about the importance of noise, clamor and din in Chinese society from one American's perspective.
Who Am Us Anyway? (the writer's personal introduction)
An introduction to the writer and his motives.
Chinese Culture and All That Noise
An ex-pat's satirical assessment of the indispensible and unavoidable role of noise in Chinese culture.

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