Category: Shanghai Expo 2010

  • Despo(t) 2010: Stan!

    Despo(t) 2010: Stan!

    Also in this series: Death By Exposure and Despo(t) 2010: The Axis of Awesome     In our quest to avoid the crowded pavilions at Shanghai Expo 2010, we embarked on an intensive one-day project to visit as many maligned countries as possible.  We visited the Axis of Evil and a few non-affiliated-but-still-iffy countries. We…

  • Shanghai Despo(t) 2010- The Axis of Awesome Pavilions

    Shanghai Despo(t) 2010- The Axis of Awesome Pavilions

    Also in this series: Death By Exposure and Stan!     We went back to Expo on Saturday for a stubborn second round of heat stroke and agoraphobia. The first time we went, which was just last Tuesday on the second day of the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, we waited two hours in an increasingly…

  • Death by Exposure: Expo 2010, Part 1

    Death by Exposure: Expo 2010, Part 1

      Also in this series: Despot 2010: Axis of Awesome and Stan!   After we spent the first day of the Dragon Boat Festival being slothful, alternating dragging our bodies out for breakfast, for lunch, for dinner, and lying dugong-like on the sofa, reading and drinking coffee, we decided to be ambitious for the second…