• Knife fight

    Knife fight

    that new year’s eveafter catching a late moviewe had ourselves a knife fightin the parking lot of that old diner we somehow both manageddespite our roller skates and empty champagne bottlesto strike some deep cuts passersby, ex lovers, mutual friends, helleven the poor folks on that softball teamweren’t safe from our flurry of blades at…

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  • Oh You

    Oh You

    You keep asking meThe wrong guy, might I addWhat it is you saidWithout even sparing the thoughtThat he’s worried of slipping intoyour event horizonWhile the rest of us drift around your smoldering accretion diskHaunted by your orphansOur simple minds still wrestlingwith the non-Euclidean qualiaof how you curve spacetimeGobbling up the fading lightof his frozen youthful…

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  • I’ve been back in Taiwan for three whole weeks now, my teaching schedule has resumed normality, and so has my schedule of attending class and doing homework. It’s taken me, well, three whole weeks to catch up to all of that. I’d started playing the violin about two years ago now, I took lessons, watched…

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  • How I talk to kindergarteners

    Are you ever taking a leak as jazzy elevator music floats by, thinking about time or space, or how they’re the same thing And suddenly you remember everything- the music, your mom, TV newsmen, even the headlights on northbound trains are all just waves? All of it, I mean all of it barely perceptible excitations…

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  • My wife and I are going to the US tomorrow for a few weeks to visit my family and travel around. I got a new camera to document the trip: a Fujifilm Instax 300 Wide. It’s a big boxy thing that takes Instax wide film, and spits out a nice crispy image right after you…

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  • I experienced it for a few fleeting moments one time Like the momentum quickly leaving a cola can skittering down the road, thrown out the car window at high speed. We had been discussing it just days before, you and I, and which one of Maxwell’s Equations must describe it better. “I think after meeting…

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  • Running Goals 2024

    I started running around October 2021 to participate in a half marathon that my job signed me up for. Around that same time, I had a motorcycle accident that tore my ACL, an injury that I didn’t seek treatment for until more than a year later. I ran on an off through 2022 and 2023,…

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  • Santa Fe Express

    We’ve all seen the movies I don’t really need to explain it, you know the santa fe express barrelling over some wooden bridge in the desert moonlight silhouettes all around you struggling in the wind to bomb or protect the passengers or make a stealthy getaway when suddenly you find yourself all alone your lies…

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  • Ok we’re a little late here, it’s already January 9th where I’m writing from, but I want to remind myself of all that went right in 2023 and how I expect 2024 to be better in basically every way.  I’ve had four opportunities to watch the fireworks at Taipei 101, and I’ve missed every single…

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  • What it is is a full tank of gas in your shiny new car On your way to the mall To exchange bits of paper For cures to diseases that don’t exist Fireworks, big parking lots, It’s Fruit based confections, baked to perfection, maybe topped with a slice of cheese flavored product It’s also Cranium…

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