Droves

Good god damn, there were a lot of people in the streets of Taipei on Sunday.  Estimates are in the strikingly wide scope of anywhere between 100,000-700,000.  This is really unacceptable as it shows absolutely no capacity for guesstimations by either party.  Or just one party.  I dunno.  But here are some pictures for you, and may God have mercy on the blister you got on your lip while eating a cordon bleu chicken sandwich on Sunday.

In lighter news, I drank wine with Mandy and Co. on Saturday night in Da'an Park and then threw up.  It was lovely.

-LS^2

Look at all those black shirts...

I said...

...look at 'em!

These guys are lookin'.

This dude's just standin', but he's lookin...

Look, Miss, you're gonna have to move.

There, look at them.

Everyone's lookin'...

Look at me down here!

No one was lookin' at me.

He's lookin' at someone else.

That girl's lookin' at me.

Look.

Look at this dude.

Look how crazy the bus station was

(actually, you can't really tell here).

Threadin' the needle.  Just look at that sunset...

Look, my front door!

Look at this, though...

And finally, look at Melissa praising my brother 14 years ago.

Marco Salazar for life!

A Seed of Perspective, a Roar in Numbers

Tuesday March 25 2014 1:53PM

I am near the Shandao Temple MRT (subway station) in Taipei, Taiwan in the middle of a Democratic revolution.  The youth (and seemingly beyond) have been banding together for the last week or so, speaking out in protest to an approaching trade agreement between Taiwan and mainland China.  On a micro scale, it's a matter of opening the floodgates wherein "the sharks will eat the little fish."  But in a much larger sense, it's about democracy.  It's about being a country.  It's about knowing that no matter what, you have a voice.  The people are here to show the sharks living in their own land that little fish matter and refuse to be eaten.  It's about banding together as humans and being one.  It's beautiful and it's heartbreaking and my heart is alive and beating right here with them.

In the middle of it,
-LS^2


And now, a look at some of the protester's art and passion, put into a kaleidoscope and shouted into the boom...

 Your unreliable narrator.

Ethan, in shades, for levity.