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saleem reshamwla
who is fresh of the boat (that circled the globe).
He makes crazy stuff:
Zombie Rap Videos, Truly Strange Geographic Education Flicks, Micro-Documentaries About Chinese Cell Phone Markets...kidethnic@gmail.com
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The Alpaca Song
I wrote and recorded this for you. Because you <em>need</em> a song about alpacas, don’t you?
The Whiteboard Videos
Music+Whiteboard Markers+Friends=Good ways to spend weekends
The Annual Kid Ethnic Valentine
Because I love you so much.
100JapaneseThings
A collaborative site to help folks (and each other) find Japanese stuff.
Twitter
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SEAWEED BREAKFAST
A collection of stories about Japan written while part of the National Geographic Glimpse Correspondents' Training Program.
The Dark Knight of Hamburger Small · 25 August 08
In Japan, Superman had been popular. Ultraman has his own Ultraman Land theme park not far from where I live. Spiderman? Generally regarded as pretty cool.
But Batman, explained our local friend, was not so big here.
“He cannot shoot beams from his eyes,” she said. “He cannot fly.”
True.
“We say he is shoboi,” she said.
It was a word I didn’t know. She tried to explain.
“It is like when you see a picture of a big hamburger,” she said. “But then they bring you a small hamburger. We say that hamburger is shoboi.”
Ouch. Somewhere, in the depths of the Gotham night, Bruce Wayne winced.
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