people in china clash. or maybe it's just beijing. colors that should never be put together are recklessly mixed. brown and black. please, no more. dark blue and black. nasty. green and fuchsia? pink and maroon? orange and white? don't these people know anything about color theory?!? luckily i only brought white and khaki. no screwing that up. this everybody clashing thing might actually prove to be very liberating. i can wear whatever i want and feel good about it. i actually should feel this anyway, wherever i happen to be, but some colors don't flatter me. so i have to be careful. if i look like ass someone will tell me right? right?



oh and lots of people wear socks with sandals. fashion faux pas people! fashion. faux. pas. c'mon, you make fifty cents a day, you can afford to not wear socks with sandals. also, neon didn't actually die. it still has a mysterious afterlife on the backsides of chinese people everywhere. horizontal stripes are also very big here. i don't get that. maybe everyone is trying to look wider.



i know what you're saying: "people are trying to save money to eat jon! nobody has time and effort to coordinate a wardrobe! these people live in the third world!" oh right. what was i thinking. gosh i feel shallow.



also. mr bean is everywhere on tv. at the airports. on the bus. at the supermarket. they can't seem to get enough of him and his zany antics. i can't figure out if it's because he doesn't speak so there's no translation involved or if they like him because all foreigners seem this weird. then again, they might just have lots of bootlegged copies of mr bean lying around.