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It’s 7:15pm.  In an hour I will hail a taxi and end my life in the US.
The flight is at 1am, via Taipei.  Hopefully, I am going home.
Thank you to all of you.  It’s been a hairy day – my motorcycle might get delivered to the shipper tomorrow.  No one at customs in Viet Nam will [...]

how lucky can a man be?  we thought if something should happen, asian american art would suffer.  Kevin Chen.  Chi-hui Yang.  Pearl Wong. Mina Kim. Sam Chanse. Taro Goto. Jane Kim took time to come as well, during her campaign.  Everybody was here.  Getting me prepared to get to Ha Noi.  If only they each would come to Ha [...]

Han Nguyen is one terrific photographer.  Check him out at www.hannguyen.com

 
I am on Market street – at some place called the Orbit room. The Korean woman who took me here first time ditched me. But it’s OK – Chi-hui is giving me Oriental Jackers and Gookie Cookies.  Who the hell came up with this?  The Center for Asian American Media? It’s his birthday – he [...]

I. M. Pei in China, Revisiting Roots – Free Preview – The New York Times
The dude is still going, and you should be as inspired as I am.  Not that you or I, we be architects but hey, dreams are free.  Somebody just tried to correct my grammar but hey i am in a dark [...]

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my friends in San Francisco got me a show. Embarrasing but friendship is what it is. And here’s a photo – wish it was with Gary, the Manja man. But Tim Ho is OK. He went to elementary school with me [...]

Images I will always remember of Tokyo – a few Aprils ago.  It will be cool to sit in Ha Noi and think Tokyo is only a short flight away.  All the Muji shops and cool back-alley restaurants the size of your closet.  And the ravens.  The ravens. Check this out: http://www.wirtzgallery.com/works/fukase/2000/fukase_2000.html
 
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I am going to be drunk tonight.
You would too if you knew Chi-hui.
The best.