Egypt Engulfed

Cairo protesters stand their ground (from Al Jazeera English 1.30.2011)

Egyptian air force fighter planes buzzed low over Cairo, helicopters hovered above and extra troop trucks appeared in a central square where protesters were demanding an end to President Hosni Mubarak’s rule.

State television said that a curfew has been imposed in the capital and the [...]

Egypt Engulfed

The Domino effect: Pan-Arab unrest (from Al Jazeera 1.29.2011)

ethos twelve…

“اصلا نطفه تو با شراب و عرق بسته شده”

(“when you were conceived it must have been a union of wine and vodka”)

From دائی جان ناپلئون (My Uncle Napoleon) by Iraj Pezeshkzad, trans. Dick Davis

Icon Los Angeles #43: dementia praecox

Over the last few months I began suffering tremendous difficulty discerning my waking life from my dreamed one. Sometimes I’m not sure whether I’m remembering something that actually happened or if I just dreamed it.

Conversations, friends, lovers, enemies, celebrations, funerals, arguments, parties — all blurring together. Any once definitive split between my conscious and unconscious [...]

Egypt Praise

For so many reasons, yet none that I could possibly articulate into words, I sobbed at the end of this clip…

a lion ate my virginity

Astrology opens its arms to enfold the hordes seeking solace in this final refuge of the desperate. So now I’m a Leo, forsaking my old Virgo ways. Practicality, sharp mindedness, and attention to detail usurped by celestially re-mandated creativity, idealism, and leadership. If ever there was evidence for the groundless nature of horoscopes and the [...]

Doesn’t It Just Break Your Heart…Well, It Should.

Rotten education system, bad parenting, and about 90 incredibly vulnerable girls who suffer the atrocious influence of what passes for culture, entertainment, and leadership in this country, I’m looking at you “Sixteen and Pregnant”, “Jersey Shore” and Sarah Palin… this is what happens…

It’s Easy to be Proud of your Friends when they’re Dope…