Showing posts with label chinatown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chinatown. Show all posts
Friday, October 12, 2007
chinatown
i do acknowledge that the last post was a little dire- thanks to kurt for actually taking the test, he will be nominated for several awards- what with my talk of death and nazis... it has sparked some debate with a few of my friends who were termed "everyday germans"... but what can you do. conversation about such things isn't necessarily bad. and hopefully my one friend who is now left pondering if her being tolerant can lead to being too tolerant... will one day speak to me again. i 'm also fascinated about the debate over labeling the armenian genocide actual genocide. and making people unhappy over such things like truth will never find a good time. and do labels really kill and divide? i guess so... but anyway, what i wanted to post about was chinatown. danica and i went here after we went to the flowermart- which is a gigantic wholesale flower distribution center. and you get'em for cheap. it is a fantastic place. i'm going again this saturday bcs i'm in actual need of flowers for a tea so i'll have to post about it then. but onward!
danica and i swung by chinatown in the quiet AM hours because she wanted to photograph the old men playing their games, drinking their coffee, reading their paper, and generally congregating with other men, escaping their wives? so early though? there were not many women present outside the aptly named "wonder bakery"... however, we were horrifically conspicuous. which i feel works in our favor, though noticed, we are so conspicuous like tourists rolling by that we are virtually left alone. we vow to be more brazen in our photographic efforts next time. chinatown is awesome. and i'm glad though a native i still get that feeling of having been a tourist in my own town... wandering into shops and pondering things i've never seen or tasted... notably: barrels of mystery root, jars of mystery tea, and rows of dried weird things. Also danica: you are a Tiger. Which i think i agree with... as I am a Dragon. And I am always right. 
things fascinated with: aloe you can eat, bulbous fish, hawks, the chinese zodiac, healing roots, colorful chinese lanterns, donuts, dragons.
danica and i swung by chinatown in the quiet AM hours because she wanted to photograph the old men playing their games, drinking their coffee, reading their paper, and generally congregating with other men, escaping their wives? so early though? there were not many women present outside the aptly named "wonder bakery"... however, we were horrifically conspicuous. which i feel works in our favor, though noticed, we are so conspicuous like tourists rolling by that we are virtually left alone. we vow to be more brazen in our photographic efforts next time. chinatown is awesome. and i'm glad though a native i still get that feeling of having been a tourist in my own town... wandering into shops and pondering things i've never seen or tasted... notably: barrels of mystery root, jars of mystery tea, and rows of dried weird things. Also danica: you are a Tiger. Which i think i agree with... as I am a Dragon. And I am always right. things fascinated with: aloe you can eat, bulbous fish, hawks, the chinese zodiac, healing roots, colorful chinese lanterns, donuts, dragons.
Saturday, October 6, 2007
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