Owlspotting

I was cleaning ouy my grad school e-mail before it got purged and I came across this piece I wrote for one of Josh’s initiatives.
Yes, it’s satire — and it’s written in the fall of 2003, a couple of months after I got to the U.S.
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Most Americans dress in a similar manner.
Actually some of them [...]

Growing up in Eastern Europe, one had to choose his favorite actor carefully. Your pick would not only unveil your manliness to the whole block, but the actor would also have to act as a virtual bodyguard to your psyche. He would have to battle the other kids’s pick at least twice a week.
Stallone and [...]

What if Adidas’s purchase of Reebok would create the following “alternative market” merger:
Murat Gurlen, knock-off architect and owner of the Asidas brand, did not waste time when he heard the company he was ripping off planned to expand its market. Less than two days after the announcement, Gurlen contacted “next-street-over-neighbor,” Tarkan Osman, who makes his [...]