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Nothing to Say Here (The Solutions Edition): Put A Shirt on That Pig!

2011
12.31

Tags: China, Meat, Photos, seasonal foods, Shanghai
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For today’s edition of my Shanghai photo series, I have a small task for you. You see, yesterday I saw something confusing. Something I hadn’t seen before in this city.

I saw this.

Naked lunch: Shall we dress the pig in corduroy and denim? Or satin and lace?

Yes, that’s a pig. And yes, she’s wearing her best quilted winter PJs to take the pig for a walk.

I had something else on my mind though. Something far more pressing.

I wanted to know, why wasn’t the pig properly dressed like every other mammal in this city?

Be all you can be!

I’m thinking of assembling a proper outfit for the pig for the next time I see him out for a walk. What should he wear? Is he the sporty type? Should I get him one of those hooded track suits I’ve seen on poodles? Or a jeans and button-down shirt set, like I’ve seen on a few larger dogs? Maybe a militia camouflage ensemble? And what about shoes? Velveteen booties? Sneakers? Black cotton Chinese slippers with, say, dragon embroidery?

Any suggestions?

Oh, and one more dried meat shot for the road.

At the dry cleaners, not only is our wedding dress airing, but also our future dinners

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Nothing to Say Here: Shanghai Street Photos (Mops!)

2011
12.30

Tags: China, Mops, Photos, Shanghai
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You know what Shanghai is? Shanghai is MOPS. Period. Screw economic prowess, massive deconstruction projects, shiny buildings and nouveau riche bazillionaires and their homicidal spawn and their ¥10,000 bottles of moutai in garish clubs. This city is all about the mop.

See?

Mop, drying duck, drying fish, huge pants drying on a laundry line, black car illegally parked: Shanghai in a nutshell

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Nothing to Say Here: Shanghai Street Photos (Curing Winter Meats)

2011
12.29

Tags: China, Fish, Photos, seasonal foods, Shanghai
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As you may have noted, my writer’s block is rather acute these days. Oddly enough, this dearth of things to say has coincided with an inexplicable increase in my impulse to take pictures of random things. Of course, these photos aren’t necessarily fit for human consumption as they focus mostly on mops and meats and demolition sites. Mind you, my writing dwells on essentially the same things anyway so it shouldn’t be too much of a detour.

For your viewing pleasure (or whatever else you may define it as- I’m open to suggestions), here is the first in a series of random, uncategorized photos of Shanghai, taken for no particular reason. Today’s theme: salted, cured meat hanging in the streets. Every winter, our street gets strung up with flayed fish, hung ducks and laundry lines of drying sausages. Last year we even had a series of grim, butterflied pigs. It’s fascinating in a morbid kind of way.