John Cena is a dick
That pretty picture is from the coast near my new apartment. It’s a lovely little area on the west side of a small island just off the side of a big city. It’s quiet, there’s a beach, and I sometimes even see people surfing there on odd occasions (it’s a very uncommon sport here).
I would try to surf myself but I think it would technically be called floating, and it would only be a matter of time before the authorities were called for a beached whale sighting.
But if you squint at that picture just a bit—or have followed me for a while—you can probably guess where that western sun is physically perched—right on top of China.
Of course, if you were to ask their authoritarian government, they’d say I too am living there. But I’m not. I’m smack dab in the south of democratic Taiwan, a wonderful country that has probably become more famous in the last year for a few reasons.
We were one of the very few countries which COVID left basically untouched—until about a week ago, to my own chagrin
There’s been a massive semiconductor shortage—a product which Taiwan is one of the world’s main suppliers
China has been invading Taiwan’s airspace multiple times a day with various types of jets (I have the lovely experience of being right in the flight path of Taiwan’s own planes that they send out every single time to shoo them away)
While I try not to think about the CCP’s aggressive daily overtures towards my home away from home, I sometimes can’t help it. And so I wrote a big piece about it this week after actor/wrestler John Cena really pissed me off with an “apology.”
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And by great effect, I mean it helps me write in my own style. Whether or not that style has ‘great effect’ is a matter to be debated amongst scholars.
And by scholars, I mean my fans.
And by fans, I mean the homeless cats I feed and recite my stories to every night.
Until next time peeps!
J.J. Pryor
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