February 2010
1 post
Stairway to Heaven
January 2010
3 posts
I'm in love →
Les petits plaisirs
Things I love
Crescents
White cliffs
Headscarves
Fountain pens
Algerian French
Hummus with Challah
Old books with yellowing pages
Smells that bring back memories
Sunset on a North African desert
Dancing like no one’s watching
Running like nothing else matters
Singing when no one is listening
New ballet shoes not yet broken in
Peering down railroad tracks for no reason
...
December 2009
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Javier
What is time but a mere human contrivance? Arbitrary yet addicting.
Still, wish I had more of it (see, it’s addicting!)
to spend with you, burning my tongue in the Pomegranate tea you over-boiled,
daydreams and improbabilities dissolving into the steam, fogging up your spectacles as you lean closer.
But the age of vagabonds and ideals is no more, my dear,
and my world thus unstuck,...
November 2009
3 posts
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You Are What You Doodle doodly doo
I was sitting with a friend over a cup of joe, doodling over a brown napkin that had already become privy to my Vaseline lip imprints.
Said friend asks, “What’re you writing?”
Me:…….(shows lame flowers haphazardly drawn)
Friend: “Oh, I thought you were writing something deep.”
Ouch.
When our minds drift into space, our pen tips bleed into seemingly nonsensical shapes, figures and squiggly...
August 2008
1 post
I love Reihan Salam →
July 2008
6 posts
Well, shit
James Fallows from The Atlantic commented about getting the newspaper in his Newark hotel. The situation is at once hilarious and kinda serious. Not to be a broken record about the decline of newspapers and blah blah blah, but this backs it up.
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Paynefully Rotten
Looks like the revolving door is spinning with ever so much momentum:
Stephen Payne, a lobbyist with ties to the Oval Office is offering to arrange meetings with Bush & company in exchange for comely largess to Bush’s private library, according to an investigation by the Sunday Times, a British paper.
” Stephen Payne, who claims to have raised more than $1m for the president’s...
Props to the Poles
Poland’s #1 premium Vodka. “Notice the lack of La Di Da,” says the caption on a billboard ad for the product on a California Freeway.
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Here are a few things that I’ve passed off as commonplace in China but rediscovered here in the U.S.
EAST, WEST, AT THE GERMANS’ BEHEST
I used to stare at the above logo on the corner of our washing machine in our dingy apartment home in China, circa. 1997. Haier, founded in Qingdao, China, is the third largest seller of household appliances in the world, and has a niche in the...
These days, the ethnic composition of sports teams... →
June 2008
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