Update from the field
This week’s banner stretched across the local circus says “SALAM, CLOWN!”
I like to think of this as a line for a Muslim tough-guy movie, right before someone gets nailed in the chops.
I may be wrong, but there seems to be zero sense of clowns as uncanny here. Or dolls. Or the laughter of small children.
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In other news, the price of bread has gone up from 5 soms to 7 soms (about 13 US cents to 19 cents now). Bread prices are making headlines across Central Asia. I am truly one of the lucky ones where I can think more about clown greetings than the price of bread.
Then again, our landlady just jacked our rent up by 20%, which is a lot of bread.
Our non-maker is located right across the street. He is a hot Uzbek who says his name is Evro (Euro). Which is not a traditional Uzbek name as far as I know, but maybe is Uzbek nouveau gangsta.
When I buy bread with OBF, he and Evro do all the talking. When I buy the bread by myself, Evro looks me over and says “Kak boi frend?” How’s your boyfriend? When he knows I’m married! The cheek! Okay, so I love it.
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Kyrgyzstan is rolling out a new constitution for Fall ‘07! It will replace the two (2) constitutions used last Fall. So far there are no protests planned for the coming months, since people are generally beyond Over the whole thing.
Maybe, finally, this will be the constitution that little children will someday go see on field trips, cased in glass in the state historical museum. Maybe not though.
Perhaps countries trying to establish a lasting constitution should have it carved in marble and gold and saffron, so that it becomes just too expensive to keep re-doing it. They’d be forced to put a lot of advanced thought into it, so they’d be even less likely to want to change it. And then they could lock it up and melt down the key, so it’s even more of a hassle to change it. Now that’s Utopia.
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