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Cökelek salad
At our friend Turgay’s house having this wonderful Turkish salad with tomato, onion, parsley, mint and Cökelek cheese from Hatai, Turkey. This regional cheese is smoked, fermented, and has an…
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Yoshida Kitchen Creation: Issan Sushi
Sticky rice topped with crispy pork rind and corn somtam. Unbelievably delicious dipped in somtam juice.
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RIP Phife
A Tribe Called Quest – People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm One of the best lyricist combos, musical styles, and album names/covers of the 90’s… It was a…
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Sunday dinner
Whole smoked chicken.
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Mina’s Picnic
Out of the blue, Mina told us that she and her best friend, on the last day of school (yesterday), had promised to have a picnic together today. It was…
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Coolest ski video, perhaps evah
This guy spends more time in the air than on the snow. Also, jumping over spinning helicopter blades? SRSLY?
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Alien eyestalks
I found these crazy-looking plants in a local wet market at the base of Phu Rua National park in Loei province yesterday afternoon. An old lady was selling plants from…
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A man in a dinosaur suit riding a horse.
This is the new best video of the year, and incidentally, the most touching horse video I’ve ever seen. A true thing of beauty.
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Bicycle lane at work
When the curb is lined with cars and long pickups (can you see the diagonal parking lines? ), you definitely do not want to hug that lane line too closely……
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Vintage Max
My mom dug up a classic video of Max when we visited the states around six years ago.
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Cat is Growing, or, Growing a Cat
Mina renamed it. Cat is now known as Donut, although it still doesn’t listen to a goddamn word I say. This is why I like dogs. I generally don’t really…
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Washing Machine on a Trampoline with a Brick Inside
Best video of the year, so far.
