Subway beauty

Posted in: Design, Travel- Nov 15, 2008 3 Comments

If you’ve ever smiled at the little brass men in the 14th St subway station or admired the colorful tilework at City Hall station in New York City, I think you’ll agree that this subway ceiling taken inside a Taiwan station blows all that out of the water. Standing underneath it, I really felt like [...]

7-Eleven in Taiwan

Posted in: Travel- Oct 29, 2008 No Comments

Two bits of trivia: 7-Eleven stores are ubiquitous in Taiwan, with a density in the major cities that rivals that of Starbucks in Manhattan. 7-Eleven in Taiwan is open 24 hours a day. But it’s still called 7-Eleven, not Twenty Four. Weird.

Fun things I'm not doing

Posted in: New York- Oct 20, 2008 1 Comment

I’ve been getting increasingly miffed at all the fun things I’m not doing while I tend to Very Important Life Matters™, the latest being getting drunk. Also on my not-to-do list: seeing Party Central USA‘s new stage show, Riding an Inflatable Hotdog, at the PIT marching in the annual Village Halloween Parade being part of [...]