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• Yurts Are High Fashion and Slum Fashion Too

  Speaking of housing in Central Asia, I guess Occupy Toronto has been living in $20,000 yurts Before you laugh, yurts are insanely warm and comfortable, even the normal, handmade kind that only cost a few thousand. That’s the hipster/slum fashion side. Apparently, though yurts are also mingling with the upper crust, the occupyees, the 1%, […]

  12/05/11 • (2)

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  Thank You

  Thank you anonymous buyer for buying so many My Yurt or Yours T-shirts. Some Central Asian head’s family is going to have a very good Christmas! I’m assuming whoever bought them reads this blog because there really aren’t that many Central Asian Internet portals around. I think this could be the hot new Christmas present […]

  12/04/11 • (2)

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  Merry Western Christmas

  For Christmas, a closeup of one of my favorite winter wallpapers. Although the designer, Vlad Gerasimov lives in Irkutsk, Russian and not Kazakhstan, the snow leopard is the official symbol of Astana and one unofficial symbol of the whole country. So Merry Western American Christmas. May Santa Claus get you everything you want!

  12/24/10 • (Comments Off on Merry Western Christmas)

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  Photographs

  I’ve been playing around with WordPress quite a bit and I’ve decided to set up a separate subdomain for my photographs on KZBlog. Redbubble is a good place to buy and sell art–the quality of products I’ve bought there is really good, better than I could do myself. But the display of photos is not […]

  12/12/10 • (Comments Off on Photographs)

• Twas the Night Before Rozdestvo

  Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the land/Not a single soul cared, for this was Kazakhstan/No stockings were hung by the fire at all/For fear they would burn if they would fall.
  Great parody of A Visit by Saint Nick by a Peace Corps Volunteer, K-Chuck

  12/26/09 • (Comments Off on Twas the Night Before Rozdestvo)