For my Mandarin Chinese homework, I have been set the task of promoting the deep fried Mars Bar—pinnacle of Scottish cuisine—to Taiwanese audiences. I am very proud of my translation of the delicacy into Mandarin: 炸馬霸 (Zhá Mǎ Bà), or Deep Fried Horse Hegemon.
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Writer & Philosopher. Based in #Tainan, with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, #Myanmar. Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
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Will Buckingham | 白忠修
@willbuckingham@zirk.us
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
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Will Buckingham | 白忠修
@willbuckingham@zirk.us
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
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Will Buckingham | 白忠修
@willbuckingham@zirk.us
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
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Will Buckingham | 白忠修
@willbuckingham@zirk.us
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
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Mar 01, 2026
Some heavy-duty theological content in this mural spotted in Pingtung, Taiwan.
(Fall and redemption. Genesis meets Chris de Burgh...)
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Will Buckingham | 白忠修
@willbuckingham@zirk.us
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
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Will Buckingham | 白忠修
@willbuckingham@zirk.us
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
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Feb 27, 2026
This was the loveliest way to spend a Friday early evening, listening to Hug Muzik / 曾立馨 performing their amazing Bossa Nova / Taiwanese pak-koán 北管 mash-ups in Xishi. Met lots of good folks, caught up with some old friends, then Youbiked back to Pingtung along the bike path under the railway line.
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Will Buckingham | 白忠修
@willbuckingham@zirk.us
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
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Will Buckingham | 白忠修
@willbuckingham@zirk.us
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
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Feb 25, 2026
Got talking to the Hakka guy in the coffee shop across the road from our home. He said he'd guessed I was British because a) I'm not tall, and b) I seem cultured, whereas (I'm just reporting what he said... this is not an endorsement of his view) Americans are a) tall and b) uncultured.
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Will Buckingham | 白忠修
@willbuckingham@zirk.us
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
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Will Buckingham | 白忠修
@willbuckingham@zirk.us
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
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Feb 17, 2026
After years of refining and further refining a book proposal, and agonising over the market—an abstraction entirely beyond my comprehension—I've started from scratch, putting words to paper, writing what I want to write. And I've no idea how it's going to go, but there's life there, and fun, and a sense of something real.
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Will Buckingham | 白忠修
@willbuckingham@zirk.us
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
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Will Buckingham | 白忠修
@willbuckingham@zirk.us
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
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Feb 16, 2026
We're galloping into the lunar new year here in Taiwan, so here's Ludwig Wittgenstein, wishing you a very happy year of the horse. 馬上成功！
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Will Buckingham | 白忠修
@willbuckingham@zirk.us
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
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Will Buckingham | 白忠修
@willbuckingham@zirk.us
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
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Feb 14, 2026
An excellent piece on the virtues of sad sandwiches by Misato Okaneya.
"Boterham demands no love or effort, and keeps the day going. I feel there is absolute trust in a boterham, not necessarily because it is excellent, but because it is simple and unpretentious."
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Will Buckingham | 白忠修
@willbuckingham@zirk.us
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
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Will Buckingham | 白忠修
@willbuckingham@zirk.us
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
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Feb 12, 2026
Had a dream last night that Nick Cave popped in to borrow a duster. I offered him a J-Cloth, but he regretfully declined, saying he wanted a proper duster or nothing at all.
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Will Buckingham | 白忠修
@willbuckingham@zirk.us
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
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Will Buckingham | 白忠修
@willbuckingham@zirk.us
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
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Feb 06, 2026
Finished reading this on the train today, and it's a fun and interesting book. I have a soft spot for Zhuangzi's happy fish, and so this was up my street. It's also open access, putting the "free" into "free and easy wandering" (逍遙遊)
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111568171/html
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Will Buckingham | 白忠修
@willbuckingham@zirk.us
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
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Will Buckingham | 白忠修
@willbuckingham@zirk.us
Writer & Philosopher. Based in # Tainan , with a foot somewhere in Scotland. Faculty at Parami University, # Myanmar . Semi-recovering academic. Latest book, "HELLO, STRANGER: Stories of Connection in a Divided World" (Granta 2021). BBC Radio4 Book of the Week. Co-director Wind&Bones CIC. Pronouns he/him.
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Feb 05, 2026
I lost my wallet in Taipei. It was returned to the police station. Not only that, but all the cash and cards were still there, and had been removed, catalogued, and put back with such neat orderliness that I'm tempted to lose my wallet more often, if only to take advantage of this extra service. 😍
My wallet is normally a horror-show of scruffy disorder. For the first time in years, I feel like a proper, upstanding citizen.
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