One more time with Arianne “Tex” Thompson, author of One Night in Sixes, available for purchase right now!
North Korea’s France-by-way-of-Russia uniforms
We think it’s better because that’s how we’ve always done it
Bulgarian light switches (superior) electrical sockets (inferior! Inferior I tell you!)
You’ve lost the luxury of discernment
No, nothing, I just really like the above quote. Take a look at that again.
Japan, exporting its culture like a beast
Successfully exporting your culture is finding people who are willing to pay for it
I said something dumb about the Anglosphere being a “strong attractor,” but what I should have said was the rich get richer
More people speak English as a foreign than as a native language
A YA novel about Bulgarian teenagers by my buddy Emil Minchev
Globalization is increasingly not Americanization
The bad guys in Red Dawn switch from our good friends in China to the vile (and economically irrelevant) North Korea
The illegal panda violence in World of Warcraft (wasn’t really illegal. Sorry, Tex)
It’s getting to be weird for there to be a movie that’s totally white people
