• Cats of Tokyo

    “He wrote me that in the suburbs of Tokyo there is a temple consecrated to cats. I…

  • Super Keyboard Cat Bros.

    From judebuffum on YouTube: One of my favorite Keyboard Cat videos to date. And it does tie…

  • Wordless Wednesday: Maneki Neko

  • Test Tone vol. 46, Super-Deluxe, Tokyo

    Tokyo has a large electronic music and experimental music scene, and during my brief stay there I…

  • Homecoming and Adoption Anniversary

    I returned home from China and Japan today. There is still much to relate, from the last…

  • Summer Palace and Temple of Heaven, Beijing

    On the northwest corner of Beijing is the Summer Palace, or Yihe yuan (颐和园). It is quite…

  • Wordless Thursday: Tiananmen Square

  • The Forbidden City

    The first stop on my weekend trip to Beijing was the Forbidden City. The Forbidden City was…

  • Liang Shan Buddha

    In the hills not far from Wuxi stands 88-meter tall Liang Shan Buddha: To get a sense…

  • Wuxi and Lake Tai

    The city of Wuxi is to the north of Suzhou, along the huge Lake Tai, or Taihu…