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Welcome to my blog. I write about fitting in, sticking out, and missing the motherland as a serial foreigner.

July 20th, outsourced

Those of you still in the throes of writing final papers may find this academic sentence generator useful. Because "the emergence of history as such clarifies the position of the discourse of power/knowledge."

I swear this same thing happened a few years ago with an SUV social media ad campaign. Here we go again with people wrecking Shell's make-your-own ad campaign in hilarious ways. [HT Scotty]

I have no idea what induced them to poke such respectful fun, but it sure is a good time: Fab or Drab at the Hill Cumorah Pageant. [HT Jeremy]

If Apple sold bottled water... [HT Scotty]

If you get tired of reading about bad baby names, you should stay away from my blog. Here is a wonderful update on the world of parents who give horrible names to their kids.

This is a real thing that happened at the 1976 Miss America pageant. There are no words. Except that I wish there was a closeup at 1:29-1:30. [HT Eric D. Snider]

Music tourists

American culture shock