“It’s not about ‘does it make money?’, but about ‘does it make good culture?’”

“How do we make better books? By making better relationships.”

Love these guys!

Me, casually: "Oh, I'm studying Butler at the moment with my students."

My teacher, equally casually: "That's great. I've never read the book, so would you like to explain the argument of Gender Trouble in Mandarin?"

Me: "... [takes a deep breath] 就是這樣..."

Haaaa!

The audio on the link above is in four languages: English, Taiwanese, Mandarin and Scottish Gaelic!

Ha! Ha! Or Nietzsche, maybe. Wondering what the Taiwanese equivalent is here... the serene spirit of Guanyin 觀音, vs. the drunken spirit of Jigong 濟公, perhaps?

I applaud your efforts to make sense of it. I read through a couple of times, and gave up. My own position is that once vouchers and coupons are involved, we quickly find ourselves in a very dark place.

Aaagggghhh! The article itself is pretty unclear, but also it looks as if the scheme itself has that special quality of wild overcomplication peculiar to the fevered world of Taiwanese bureaucracy.

I'm going to be zooming in remotely, and so I'm missing out on the snacks, as well as on the comedy of demonstrating my lack of prowess with a loom. But next time, I'm hoping to make it there in person.

It's a very particular vibe, but I quite like it.

Aww! x

You guys... 😍

I'd go to the 7-Eleven, but for all of their many remarkable functions, I don't think that iBon machines yet offer in-store exorcisms—though correct me if I'm wrong.