Osama Bin Laden sez: LoL!

This Huffington Post article has me twittering (but not on Twitter... yet)

I wish it were a mystery

From the grocery store around the corner:

Would Magic Molly eat it?

Mystery Meat

Found at the Kaohsiung Lantern Festival on February 13:

Seriously, what are these?  They're too small to be chickens, but would Taiwanese people really eat roasted pigeons?

Recommended Reading

10-word summary of this article from the LA Times:

Methane bubbles under the melting Arctic might bring our demise.

KVETCH

When I left Taiwan on January 20, it was still chilly enough to wear a jacket.  One month later, I'm wearing shorts and sweating through my shirt at work.  And it's only March.

Tomorrow's forecast: 31 degrees celcius (that's 87.8 degrees Fahrenheit for the philistines who won't do metric.)

Ugh.

Puppy Love

What happens when you try to take a webcam photo with a dog around.

Noisy

This is not my crotch. It is Gao Xiao Gao's crotch--she sings for an indie rock band in Taipei called The White Eyes.

The White Eyes played a show last night at a place called the Underworld near Taipei Normal University*. I won't pretend I know how to write about music or concerts, but the energy level at the show seemed comparable to the other two shows I've seen in recent memory (Dengue Fever in July and the What Cheer? Brigade sometime last spring). All 40 of us who crowded into the smoky lair of Underworld bobbed our heads at the very least, and most people danced. I felt like I was 16 again, lying to my parents about "sleepovers" so I could catch punk shows on campus or begging one of my acquaintances who house-sat for Karen O., the lead singer of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, to steal her underwear when no one was looking.

I'd been whining about not being able to see live music more since I arrived on this island, and I'm glad that a) I finally saw a show and b) it didn't suck. Hopefully more is yet to come!


*Note on culture: In spite of the East Asia's affinity for conformity, the term "Normal Universities" is not meant to distinguish Normal Universities from "weird" universities. "Normal University" is actually an old-fashioned term for teacher's college.