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Sundays in My City – From Dives to Skyscrapers

January 23, 2011

in through the looking glass

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p.s. Obviously backdated so it appears to have been published on a Sunday. These pictures were taken a week before but I have been to lazy busy to do anything about them.

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SundaysinmyCity Sundays in My City From Dives to Skyscrapers

Tagged as: chicago, formerly known as sears tower, I will take a picture of the most boring thing with Hipstamatic and it will come out looking like I actually give it any thought, overcompensating when husband is away, random pictures I took with my phone because i could, skyscrapers, Sundays in My City, taipei 101, tourist trap

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Sundays in My City

January 16, 2011

in through the looking glass

I am in downtown Chicago with the kids this weekend. NO laptop. I have aniPhone with no SIM. But it has a camera: look out, world!!!

I am sitting in the hotel lobby using the free Wi-Fi, trying to blog via my iPhod thingy. Ok. Seriously? How the fuck does anybody type on this thing?!?! So far I have accidentally published this post twice. Ugh. FWIW, Here it goes…

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Tagged as: chicago, overcompensating when husband is away, random pictures I took with my phone because i could, Sundays in My City, through the looking glass, tourist trap

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Speaking of tourist trap, how about let’s just forgo all pretenses, and admit that this is all for commercialism

March 30, 2009

in marketing at work,through the looking glass

Speaking of tourist trap, how about lets just forgo all pretenses, and admit that this is all for commercialism

and souvenir shopping is the main reason why you are all here?

The exhibit of the Emperor Sedan is now directly inside this souvenir shop. Pay and you get to have a picture taken with it, up close and personal. Pay more you get to move to the left side, where you can dress up and the Emperor and the Empress and have your picture taken on a replica throne.

Tagged as: china, forbidden city, is it me, photo, tourist trap

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The Legend of Kung Fu: cheesy, cliché yet awesome. Like all best scenes from all kung fu movies condensed into 1.5 hours awesomeness

March 30, 2009 through the looking glass

It is 1.5 hour of sheer awesomeness if you love this kind of stuff. To say the least, these folks have a lot of years of training and practice under their belt. AND, the narration (there is a storyline) is done in ENGLISH. Yes, English, with Chinese captions. At first, the abrupt switch to English [...]

Tagged as: cheesy fun, china, kung fu, tourist trap

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