Trista di Genova, The Wild East September 3rd was a proud moment in time, for all of us. Eleven local comics from the UK, South Africa, USA – including myself – congregated at a Sports Bar on Wen Lin Road in JuBei for ‘Hsinchu’s First Comedy Night!’ It was billed
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Bringing comedy to the Taipei countryside
On Saturday, Sept. 3rd, Jubei’s Sports Bar presents Hsinchu’s first Comedy feast! Location: Wen Xin Road, No 53, Ju bei, Hsinchu City, 竹北市文興路一段53號 Ladies and Gentlemen we’re in for a treat: this coming Saturday night, get ready to laugh your ass off. There will be 11 amazing acts ready to
Read moreGet Out Your Shtick for The Funniest English Teacher Contest
Time: Sunday, July 3 · 7:00pm – 10:00pm Location: Comedy club 卡米地喜劇俱樂部 No.20, Ln. 553, Sec. 4, ZhongXiao E. Rd. (MRT Taipei City Hall Station EXIT 1) By Sosio Chang, Robert Pratt, Matt Bronsil Hey you funny English teachers! You are funny in your class. And now it’s time to
Read moreTaiwan Architecture: A Festival of Junk
How and why the island’s modern-day architecture evolved into such a sad state — an aesthetically offensive living museum of bile-inspiring monstrosities By Trista di Genova The Wild East A few years ago, when producer Will Tiao and his crew were scouting locations for the film ‘Formosa Betrayed’, they discovered
Read moreTyphoon Bloody Warning for British People
By David Johnson The Wild East Just ‘got wind’ of the AIT’s (American Institute in Taiwan) typhoon warning for U.S. citizens. Bloody hell, don’t Americans make a big deal out of everything? Next they’ll be making a Hollywood movie out of all this rain. Warnings like this only make people
Read moreFirst Days in Taipei: Paranoia and Preconceptions
By Mary Weathers The Wild East Here I am in a far away, foreign land. Here I am, or at least part of me. Here I am with a dismembered body and soul. Heart and mind are still at home fighting each other in a bloody battle of courage and
Read moreDear MeiGui: Am I wasting time teaching in Taiwan?
Dear MeiGui; Working as an English teacher for me isn’t that bad. The kids are all really cute, and so are my co-teachers. Plus, I work in a private elementary school, which offers an awesome salary along with three months of paid vacation every year. Between the students, the chicks,
Read moreChina, Unhand Thy Pandas
The Wild East Opinion Desk There’s something creepy about Chinese people trying to breed pandas. What’s this about showing ‘Panda porn’? ‘Sexercise’ for pandas? I wouldn’t go into oestrus, either, if only out of spite. China should back off its panda ‘preservation’ programs, stop intervening in panda sex by practically holding
Read moreI get no respect from my wife, or Taiwan law for that matter
Dear MeiGui; Let me tell you; family law in Taiwan is chaotic. I am a 48-year-old, married to a mainland China wife man from PingTung, and not only do I get no respect from my wife, but I also get no respect from the law. Every night, my wife scolds
Read moreThe Tale of Snake Anthony, of Xin Beitou
By Caleb Cole, in Taipei County There is an eccentric man in Xin Beitou selling pocket-sized novels of an overtly sexual nature outside of one of the Seven-Elevens en route to the public hot springs, for which the locale has come to be known. I randomly learned of his existence
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