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  Sheep Head Tees

  What I do in my free time. A few new T-shirts meant to gently laugh at the venerable Kazakh tradition of serving sheep head at special occasions. As I said on the description, sheep brains and other bits are not actually as bad as they sound. Click the image to see them in different colors, [...]

  9/27/10 • (1)

• Better Than a Guard Dog

  An old story that I never got around to posting about: Apparently a circus owner from Kostanai came to Karaganda to buy a lion for his circus. That’s not unusual; there’s a zoo in Karaganda. He picked him up in a Gazelle, which is a big moving van style truck. And the lion was locked [...]

  9/09/10 • (1)

• Painful

  I heard that prison conditions are bad in Kazakhstan, but seriously? You’d rather castrate yourself than be extradited back to Kazakhstan?

  9/02/10 • (4)

• PSA: Meteor Shower Tonight

  According to Lifehacker, 13 August between 18:00 and 7:00 Universal Time. (midnight to 1pm Astana/Almaty time) will be the best time to see the Perseid meteor shower. If you miss it today, apparently it will be going on for a few days, so you’ll have another crack. EDITED TO UPDATE TIMES from original source: the [...]

  8/13/10 • (0)

• Turkish Pirates

  Dear US Polo Association, Perhaps if you want to pirate Ralph Lauren, not only the style and the logo, but also the photoshoots in advertisements, perhaps you could bother to make your website English. When I open a website in Turkish, chances are I’m not going to believe it’s actually a US made product, no [...]

  8/13/10 • (2)

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  We Think We Know Around How Much the Beach Might Cost

  I am amused that one the top stories on Zakon.kz is about the prices of the beaches at Khan Shatyr. Even though the young woman guarding the beach last week told us how much it would cost to go there, it turns out that the decision hasn’t yet been made and is going to take [...]

  7/23/10 • (2)

• Octopus Is Economic Threat

  According to The Daily Telegraph and Kazakhstan’s Liter, the Kazakhstan Association of Bookmakers blames Paul the Octopus for a bad take from this year’s World Cup. Out of 10 billion tenge (almost $67 million) put down on World Cup matches in Kazakhstan, bookmakers only made 150 million tenge profit ($1 million), or 1.5%. They had [...]

  7/21/10 • (0)

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  Medvedev Twitter Makes Some Noise

  Some of you may have heard this by now, but President Medvedev of Russia wrote a Happy Birthday congratulations to Nazarbayev on his Twitter feed: Interesting that they provide an English-language translation of his feed, suggesting that either the feed is more for foreigners or that he wishes to appear hip and cool by speaking [...]

  7/08/10 • (0)

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  Kak Belii Chelovek

  Another foray into Cosmopolitian, Kazakhstan edition (I read it for the articles) led me to an ad for Garner Light, a skin whitener. Full disclosure: The ad pictured here isn’t the exact ad printed in the Cosmo I read. I was disturbed that l’Oreal felt that there was a market for skin whitener in Kazakhstan. [...]

  5/26/10 • (6)

• Ask Not What the World Has Done for Kazakhstan

  But what Kazakhstan has done for the world. My wife bought the latest issue of Cosmopolitan and I was amused by a poll asking what is the best thing that Kazakhstan has given to the world. No idea if the answers were provided by Cosmo or if people could write in whatever they wanted but [...]

  5/24/10 • (0)

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