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  The I Love KZ Pics

  I randomly stumbled on the author of these I Love KZ heart icons that popped up on the Internet a few years ago. Erden Zikibay, a designer living in Washington, DC created them as part of a movement to put up anti-Borat propaganda on the web. Links to the variations are here in case you […]

  2/19/11 • (Comments Off on The I Love KZ Pics)

• How to Write About Kazakhstan

  I am taking up a gauntlet here in response to a great post on Registan.net about How to Write About Afghanistan. First, mention Borat. If the article is about some problem or something that seems funny then refer to Kazakhstan as “Boratland”, “the home of Borat”, or “Boratistan”. Otherwise, if the article is about say […]

  5/02/10 • (2)

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  .001% of the Internet Thinks My Site is Cool

  I finally broke 100,000 on my Alex Rank! Which was a small personal goal, albeit fairly meaningless in the long run. But it was something I was aiming for. Taking this time to look at my most popular posts, I am amazed to see that Fut-Fut-Fut-freestailo is the most popular post of all time on […]

  4/27/10 • (1)

• By Request

  So far Borat’s “national anthem” and Freestailo are the most popular search requests on this site. And people wondering what exactly Mr. Freestylo is saying make up a large percentage of visitors to this site. So I thought I’d post the lyrics in Kazakh (so you can sing along at home) and then translated into […]

  5/21/09 • (2)

• Borat’s Repentance

  Got notified of this by a commenter on my post Borat is Good for Kazakhstan. A film maker, kzscreenwriter in Kazakhstan has made a film called Borat’s Repentance that traces what happens when the President of the Borat fan club comes to Kazakhstan to apologize and discovers that Kazakhstan is a civilized and developed country. […]

  11/16/08 • (5)

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  See? Kazakhs Do Have a Sense of Humor

  Perhaps some think that Borat can get away with mocking Kazakhstan because it is not a particularly powerful country and because it is pretty remote from the US and the UK, where Sascha Baron Cohen does most of his filming. But when Mr. Cohen was spotted by a world champion in boxing from Kazakhstan, things […]

  5/26/08 • (1)

• Oops, Borat did it again

  Even when it has nothing to do with him, Sascha Baron Cohen’s journalist character manages to pop into the news. US Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi announced Monday that he will retire from the Senate after a long career. Analysts think the Governor may choose Mississippi Representative Chip Pickering as Lott’s replacement until the election […]

  11/27/07 • (Comments Off on Oops, Borat did it again)

• On the lighter side

  I finally saw the Borat movie–a pirate edition was handed to me in a smoky cafe, in plain white paper, the discs enscribed “We <3 Kazakhstan” like it was samizdat in Soviet times. So no money from the Kazakhstan economy went to Mr. Cohen from me, unlike some other non-patriots who pushed Borat to number […]

  3/11/07 • (Comments Off on On the lighter side)

• Why Kazakhstan shouldn’t develop teh internets

  E-government in Britain has apparently hit a new high–you can write e-petitions to the Prime Minister, making requests for all sorts of things, anything you want apparently (without any guarantee that he will answer, of course). Chris Merriman has some of the better ones up here, but the one I thought was of particular note […]

  3/02/07 • (Comments Off on Why Kazakhstan shouldn’t develop teh internets)

• Image

  Sean Roberts has an article up about nation branding and (inevitably) Borat. Upon the occasion of yet another big paid article in the Washington Post, Who Needs Borat? Here’s the Kazakh President, highlighting the President’s new devil may care attitude to the comedian (which itself did not emerge until after Sascha Baron Cohen did an […]

  12/20/06 • (Comments Off on Image)

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