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November 2008

11/18/08

Foreign Grocery Stores and the Ugly American

During my travels abroad, I was obsessed with supermarkets. As hard as I tried, I couldn’t shake my deep-seated Ugly American tendencies, making the names of products on shelves endlessly amusing. I got so carried away that a suspicious security guard in Hanoi escorted me and my camera out the door. Eventually, Sarah forbade me to bring the camera in, and I was forced to do actual shopping rather than snicker at the tiny cultural differences that bring out the 19-year-old boy in me...

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The continuing adventures of The Closer, aka Chicago's deputy dining editor and humor columnist Jeff Ruby. After chronicling his wife's pregnancy and eventual delivery on a Hyde Park floor in gory detail, Ruby fast-forwards a year to his paternity leave, during which his threesome inexplicably decided to travel 10,000 miles away. Again, Push is more slog than blog, since the events aren't happening in real time, but rather a flashback to three people fumbling their way from the jungles of Vietnam to a strange island off the Great Barrier Reef seemingly populated only by Japanese schoolgirls to the sickest bathroom in Thailand. And again, nothing is omitted.

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