Hear/Say

Spent the entire day walking, shopping, wandering. Listened to bouncy music like Lady Gaga. Santogold. Some Bonita Applebaum by A Tribe Called Quest. Decided I would call my cat Bonita Applebaum just so it could have a song to call home. As I typed that I also decided that it sounded dumb, and will probably never own a cat until it’s too late when I like things named “molly” or “chris” or end up calling it something stupid someone else chooses, like “coral”. A girl I know named her cat “harriet tubman” because it was black and thought it was funny. Most of us thought it was way too racist/weird but quite perfect when her cat ran away and ‘joined the Underground railroad’. Interesting because the person is white the whole thing became charged with more political meaning. Interesting that it was so uncomfortable but no one really told her so. I assume she doesn’t read my blog. I could be wrong. The whole episode was very limbo-like, as I recall it was sort of difficult to react to.

Taipei has a lot of cats. I’ve seen one up close, but I knew I wasn’t going to pet it when it looked at me with rabid, yellowed eyes. All the feral city cats look mean and lean. They shouldn’t be though, there are plenty of rats and cockroaches to go around. I saw a really fat rat today at a night market. It looked like the ones in Petco, except 4.5 times bigger/fatter.

Sw33t, metro city-scape.

Oh cool, community raincoat rack.

Yay, creeping inside the telephone booth.

Rad, KTV. Usually a private booth booked with friends + access to all you can eat buffet.

Sw33t, Butyshop.

Awesome, red bean and cream cakes.

Awesome, red bean and cream cakes.

Cool, three great danes are greater than one.

A glass ceiling I may one day break. Sw33t.

Rad, these kids are so happy.

Hip new way to tie your shoes, cool.

Hip monk shoes, cool.

Peds pwning traffic, awesome!

Sw33t, scalp spermination. So rad.

Owl see u @ Raohe St. Night Market. Radness!

Ew, stinky tofu. Cool!

Sw33t, asian lanterns!

Temple! Culturally groovy!

Sw33t travels!