What is Wednesday, you ask? Why, it’s International Monkey Day! Although it was started as a college prank, it is now utilized as a means to raise awareness of primate well-being or lack thereof. Long-time readers of this blog know that anything relating to monkeys…

What is Monkey Day? Well, it isn’t the Birthday of the Monkey God, and it isn’t the Monkey King Festival, although Monkey Day will always be about The Handsome Monkey King to me. Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, features in Journey to the West. He…

Monkey lives in the Water Curtain Cave on the Mountain of Fruit and Flowers, and one of the mortal places he lives is in small blue-and-white statue in the vestibule of Katya’s mom’s house.