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Not the kind of current events you might be expecting, but what’s going on with us and our blog.

First of all, some ass is going through our articles and giving us the lowest ratings.  I’m sure this makes him feel better somehow, but it also makes me wonder just how bad off someome must be to derive pleasure from something as juvenile as that.  This person deserves our pity and our forgiveness.  They must be having a drug problem or something else just as difficult.  No matter, it’s easy to ignore a low rating.  I do apologize to others for their ratings being taken down a notch.

Our Nikon D80 camera is in the shop undergoing a rather serious repair.  It might not be back in time for our Beach BBQ on September 19, so if you’re planning on going, please take lots of photos and upload them to Flickr.com for us.  There is a group on Flickr just for Bushman’s actitives.

Speaking of the Beach BBQ, it looks like we might just have ourselves a pretty good sized group.  Be sure to bring what you want to eat and drink with you.  At the other end of the beach (the south end) there are some vendors and if you want to venture down there that’s fine of course.  We will be situated north of those vendors, at the next shelter up the road.  I’ll be there shortly after noon so look for me.  Remember, you know you’re at the right place when there are little/no food vendors around and the vegetation is grown up so you can’t see the shelter from the road very well.  I’ll be bringing  charcoal grill, and some others are going to bring grills so we should have plenty of grill space for taking turns cooking stuff.  If anyone has a tarp and some rope, we sure could use that to extend the shelter.  Also, the seating is rather sparse, so if you have some chairs, that would be good too.  Even a beach blanket would work because the shelter has a wooden plank floor.  There are restrooms at the south end of the beach, so I’ll be running a little shuttle back and forth between where we are and the restrooms.  You can bring your bikes if you want to because we will be right beside a very nice bicycle trail.  It’s a very nice area I think you’ll agree.

That’s all for now.  If you have any questions or comments be sure to leave them.  Thanks!

We’re proud to bring you a guest article written by our friend Mike, from Lynn, Massachusetts.  Mike is a frequent reader of this blog (as well as a long-time personal friend of The Bushman) and he knows our readers love articles about food!  So, please enjoy Mike’s first guest article:

The 2009 Phantom Gourmet BBQ Beach Party

Photos and article by Mike01905

Its time again fro the Phantom Gourmet BBQ Beach Party. “The Phantom Gourmet” is a TV show in the Boston area.  They review restaurants throughout most of the 6-state New England region and they review everything that is food related. Whether its Chinese, Sushi, Pizza, BBQ, Seafood, Bakeries, Candy shops, and anything else you can think of, they’ve reviewed it.

For the past 3 years, TV show has sponsored their BBQ Beach Party. They visited various BBQ Masters around the USA and invited the best of those that they visited to come to Boston to take part. The first 2 years were held at Boston City Hall Plaza. This year they held the event in 2 locations. On June 19-21 they were at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods in Ledyard, CT and on June 26-28 they were at Suffolk Downs in East Boston, MA.

Now I’m not much of a writer… but here is my article that MJ wanted me to write on the 2009 Phantom Gourmet BBQ Beach Party. I think at this time I need to give MJ’s “food warning” for this article.

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Photo by MJ Klein

Today’s photo comes from the Blog Cafe & Bar, in beautiful Tainan:

You know what to do!

Photos by MJ Klein

Recently, reader Danielle B. said:

Danielle, yes, we have several other, non-pooping elephants in our collection.  I’ll show them to you right now!

This is the whole collection of hand carved wooden elephants from Thailand.

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Today our blog turns 4 years old!  To celebrate, we’ve inverted our blog colors for today!

Hui-chen and I are leaving tomorrow to go back to China on business.  We’ll have some stories to tell when we return, that’s for sure!

Don’t forget about the Blue Sky shows coming up next weekend and we’ll see you soon!

Photo by MJ Klein

We’re in Kaohsiung, and without an internet connection (believe it or not!).  We’ve been taking plenty of photos for you so just as soon as we can upload them, you’ll be seeing them.  In the meantime, enjoy your time off (if you have it).

David Reid interviewed me as the Year 2008 Taiwan Blog Awards Winner.  It’s being offered as a podcast on Taiwanwanderful.

Here is the link to the interview.

If you’ve always wondered what I sound like, here’s your chance!

Food and other photos by MJ Klein

It’s been awhile since we featured some food photos for our foodie readers, so I think it’s time for a few articles about food.  We hope that everyone has enjoyed the holidays and didn’t eat too much!

Hui-chen’s sister came over for a few days, and we took them to a place in Hukou that I like to call “the noisy restaurant” because typically people there are very loud. It was almost empty this evening though.  Here we see Hui-chen on the left checking out the menu and ordering dishes with the boss lady taking the order.

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We’ve added a new feature at TheNHBushman.com!  You can now leave a rating by clicking on the stars at the end of each article.   This rating feature is important to us so we can know what articles you like, so please let us know!