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  • TPE: Boring Aggression

    (Off Roosevelt Rd, Taipei)

  • TPE: I S–t You Not

    There is a special place in Heaven for someone in Taipei’s public sign-making bureaucracy. Xie xie! (Near Mingde, Taipei)

  • TPE: Ja La Foo Scoot

    I’m dying to bring a Taiwanese scooter back to Brooklyn with me. Unfortunately, Carrefour won’t ship any of these to the States. (Carrefour, Taipei)

  • TPE: Doctors’ Day for One Night

    Taiwan has many holidays celebrating civil servants, including Doctors’ Day. For one day out of the year, docs can let their hair down and chung ger to a crowd of adoring fans. The white coats stay on, however. (Veterans General Hospital, Taipei)

  • TPE: Memorial

    The Taipei 101 building seems to grow out of the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial on this rainy day. (Sun Yat-Sen Memorial, Taipei)

  • TPE: Comfort, Food

    My grandmother used to make this fatty pork dish for us growing up in NJ. Back then, I’m sure I wished we were eating McDonald’s instead, but now I can’t get enough of it. Ah, youth… (Shipai Road, Taipei)

  • TPE: Bat Alley

    Every night, I make the four-minute walk from our apartment to the hospital. The trip is short and mundane, but often the highlight of my day. Taipei can be oppressively hot when the sun is out, but the evenings are often beautifully mild and bree…

  • TPE: Hospital Cleaners Rule

    OK, maybe I can complain about one thing: at this hospital, no matter how sick you are, when the cleaning crew comes to perform its annual floor waxing, you gonna get your shit and your terminally ill asses out of the room until we say its OK to c…

  • TPE: Above It All

    I’ve never spent this much time in a hospital before, but I’m finding it hard to find anything to complain about. The staff and facilities have been great. The view is not bad either. (Veterans General Hospital, Taipei)

  • TPE: Looking The Part

    With my new self-administered buzz cut, I fit right in at VGH. I’m a patient undergoing chemo, a monk praying for the sick, or maybe just the slacker delivering pizza. I’ve had a feeling for quite some time now that I’ll be a different person afte…

  • TPE: Busy Clippers

    My brother gets a hair cut. Tomorrow, I’m gonna break out my own clippers and give myself a buzz, because I’m DIY. I’ll need him to take a look at the back to make sure I got it right, though. (Off Shipai Rd, Taipei)

  • TPE: What Does The Scanner See?

    What does a scanner see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does it see into me? Into us? Clearly or darkly? A Scanner Darkly is so paranoid and heavy that it???s easy to forget how freaking hilarious it is after it ends. This was my second viewing…

  • TPE: A Last Visit

    A final visit. Twenty plus hours of traveling alone. I’ve never done long-haul flights so frequently, but I can see myself getting used to it. Transfer planes at Narita. Just an hour-and-a-half here this time and no terminal switching. I’m thankfu…

  • Underwater, Above Ground

    I try to imagine what it must be like. Maybe like being underwater, a few inches below the surface. Shimmery figures, hollow sounds. Distance, I’m sure. Comfort, I hope. (Soho, Manhattan)

  • Wednesday Seating: White Loveseat

    William St & Fulton St

  • Yes, The New Yorker

    This is a pretty boring photo and I’ll be the first to admit it. I post it mainly to let you all know that my life is not all globe-trotting, young women, and steak-eating. In fact, my days consist largely of wandering around the streets, looking …

  • One Nation on Baxter

    (Baxter St, Manhattan)

  • Medium (Too Rarely)

    (Peter Luger’s Steak House, Brooklyn)

  • From The $2 Seats

    Those in the know wait for the 7 train to Manhattan on the western end of the station. (Willets Point-Shea Stadium Subway Station, Queens)

  • NYMPD

    (Shea Stadium, Queens)

  • Amazingly Protected

    (Shea Stadium, Queens)

  • Responsible?

    (Bedford St, Brooklyn)

  • Flushing Bakery 3

    (Flushing Bakery, Main St & Roosevelt Av, Flushing)

  • Flushing Bakery 2

    (Flushing Bakery, Main St & Roosevelt Av, Flushing)

  • Flushing Bakery 1

    (Flushing Bakery, Main St & Roosevelt Av, Flushing)

  • TPE 30

    (Narita International Airport, Japan)

  • TPE 29

    (Herm??s, Narita International Airport, Japan)

  • TPE 28

    (Taipei Taoyaun International Airport, Taiwan)

  • TPE 27

    (Taipei Taoyaun International Airport, Taiwan)

  • TPE 26

    (Taipei Taoyaun International Airport, Taiwan)

  • TPE 25

    (Taipei Taoyaun International Airport, Taiwan)

  • TPE 24 (Goodbye For Now)

    I don’t know if I’ll ever see you again, but I know you’ll always be with me. I’ve dreamed of you already. (Taipei County)

  • TPE 23

    (Carrefour, Taipei)

  • TPE 22

    (Takashimaya Tian Mu, Taipei)

  • TPE 21

    (Zhongshan Rd N, Taipei)

  • TPE 20

    (Taipei County)

  • TPE 19

    (CTI News Channel 52, Taipei)

  • TPE 18

    (Shipai Rd, Taipei)

  • TPE 17

    (Nanking East Rd, Taipei)

  • TPE 16

    (Tian Mu West Rd, Taipei)

  • TPE 15

    (Tian Mu West Rd, Taipei)

  • TPE 14

    (Veterans General Hospital, Taipei)

  • TPE 13

    (Near Shipai Rd, Taipei)

  • TPE 12

    (Shipai Rd, Taipei)

  • TPE 11

    (Veterans General Hospital, Taipei)

  • TPE 10

    (Grand Hotel, Taipei)

  • TPE 9

    (Veterans General Hospital, Taipei)

  • TPE 8

    (Danshui Line, Taipei MRT)

  • TPE 7

    (Taipei)

  • TPE 6

    (Veterans General Hospital, Taipei)