Culturally Discombobulated
Culturally Discombobulated is just what the internet needed - another navel-gazing blog. It's my struggle with living in the land of iHops and Dennys. Imagine Alistair Cooke without the charm, talent and contacts and you've pretty much got it.
tags: Britain, Central Valley, Modesto, Politics, USA
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Notes From A Native Daughter – Joan Didion
Posted on 25/04/2013
My navel-gazing post on Thatcher touched upon what I termed “shadow California”, though actually known as the Central Valley. It’s something that I’ve debated with...
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Thought called malice
Posted on 18/04/2013
I live in contrarian California, that shadow state that runs parallel alongside the real California; it is a land not of good vibrations but of almond plantations, of farmers, not surfers....
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Brief thoughts: Easter
Posted on 15/04/2013
Over the recent Easter weekend, the smell of roast lamb permeated throughout the apartment. Normally I don’t like cooking smells that linger for days; there’s something...
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Fox 40 News, the gift that keeps giving
Posted on 04/04/2013
The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a new, more complex relation to “the serious.” One can be...
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March Madness
Posted on 01/04/2013
“The March Hare will be much the most interesting, and perhaps as this is May it won’t be raving mad — at least not so mad as it was in March.” Lewis Carroll Just as...
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Like 1776 Never Happened
Posted on 28/03/2013
Bed, Bath & Beyond – for one – welcomes our new British overlords.
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Store greeters
Posted on 20/03/2013
They’re fond of greeting you in stores here. “Hello sir, and welcome to Wal-Mart / Best Buy / PetCo / Futility / Your Worst Nightmare.” If you’re entering a...
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Any color as long as it’s green.
Posted on 18/03/2013
In an obnoxious tradition (not rooted in Ireland), Americans feel entitled to “playfully” pinch you if you’re not wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day; yet punching...
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A return to the terrifying world of sign wavers
Posted on 15/03/2013
I’ve blogged before about the mechanical sign wavers that are increasingly popular near me; primarily because with their lifeless faces and metronomic sway they’re the stuff of...
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America #101: Bar survival tips #61
Posted on 20/02/2013
Through bitter experience, US bars that feature martinis in their signage are bars you are best advised ordering anything other than a martini.
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