Comments on: Spring Festival at The Granite Studio http://granitestudio.org/2007/02/16/spring-festival-at-the-granite-studio/ A Qing historian reads the newspaper... Sat, 02 Jul 2011 03:31:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: 花崗齋之愚公 http://granitestudio.org/2007/02/16/spring-festival-at-the-granite-studio/comment-page-1/#comment-524 花崗齋之愚公 Sat, 17 Feb 2007 08:59:00 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=181#comment-524 Are you kidding? If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. I'm getting involved. As I mentioned earlier, YJ's dad has purchased enough explosives to knock a communications satellite out of its orbit (okay, bad example...). We're celebrating the Tianjin way: Drink beer, eat dumplings, blow shit up. Are you kidding? If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. I’m getting involved. As I mentioned earlier, YJ’s dad has purchased enough explosives to knock a communications satellite out of its orbit (okay, bad example…). We’re celebrating the Tianjin way: Drink beer, eat dumplings, blow shit up.

]]> By: 無名 - wu ming http://granitestudio.org/2007/02/16/spring-festival-at-the-granite-studio/comment-page-1/#comment-523 無名 - wu ming Sat, 17 Feb 2007 06:31:00 +0000 http://granitestudio.org/?p=181#comment-523 hah, if it's anything like taiwan, you won't be sleeping for a month, with all the firecrackers. the kids in rural taiwan used to fire bottle rockets at our scooter as we drove by. suffice to say, fire safety's not such a big thing in that country. <br/><br/>i always used to fantasize stockpiling a bunch of firecrackers and then settijng them off for 4th of july, guy fawkes' day, bastille day, cinco de mayo, etc. just a little payback.<br/><br/>oh, and if you think tianjin is bad, check <a HREF="http://www.gio.gov.tw/info/festival_c/mpg/twj01.mpg" REL="nofollow">yanshui's beehive fireworks</a>. an explanation of that madness can be found <a HREF="http://www.gio.gov.tw/info/festival_c/glue_e/tainan.htm" REL="nofollow">here</a>.<br/><br/>and to think that N didn't let me go and see them for myself.<br/><br/>happy pig year! hah, if it’s anything like taiwan, you won’t be sleeping for a month, with all the firecrackers. the kids in rural taiwan used to fire bottle rockets at our scooter as we drove by. suffice to say, fire safety’s not such a big thing in that country.

i always used to fantasize stockpiling a bunch of firecrackers and then settijng them off for 4th of july, guy fawkes’ day, bastille day, cinco de mayo, etc. just a little payback.

oh, and if you think tianjin is bad, check yanshui’s beehive fireworks. an explanation of that madness can be found here.

and to think that N didn’t let me go and see them for myself.

happy pig year!

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