August 12, 2008
August 11, 2008
“ Me: Up, up, up the corporate ladder I go!
Mom: I would wear a safety belt and helmet.
Mom: I would wear a safety belt and helmet.
August 10, 2008
“ Darwish enjoyed a following across the Arab world, where he had the kind of readership contemporary poets in English and other European languages, can only dream of. “He turned the Palestinian cause into songs that transcended the cause and all other Arab issues,” said Abdel-Rahman al-Abnoudi, a prominent Egyptian poet and a friend of Darwish. He gave voice to Palestinians’ dreams of statehood, helping to craft their 1988 declaration of independence. He penned the words Arafat spoke at the United Nations in 1974: “Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter’s gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
Darwish, poet of the Palestinian cause, dies after surgery - Middle East, World - The Independent
[Thankyou, Zainab, for the link. -Y]
3 weeks ago
August 9, 2008
Junoon - Ghoom Tana (via NosheenM)
4 weeks ago
August 8, 2008
“ ‘I have homes everywhere, many I have not see yet. That’s perhaps why I am restless. I haven’t seen all my homes’.
Steinbeck
4 weeks ago
“ Dublanica is a waiter. Actually, he’s “The Waiter” behind the anonymous (until now) four-year-old blog Waiter Rant, and he’s got a new book of the same name out in stores today chronicling his nine-year career waiting tables in the city’s affluent suburbs (he won’t divulge the true identity of “The Bistro”). Anthony Bourdain has called it “the front-of-the-house version of ‘Kitchen Confidential,’ ” his stomach-churning restaurant exposé that changed the way New Yorkers ordered food.
[Hey! It’s The Waiter from the WaiterRant.net weblog, which I love. He looks nothing like I imagined. Also, come on, people, tip at least 20%, will ya? -Y]
4 weeks ago
“ We go to parties and we go to graduate school and we go to work and we watch news at night and I cover my head when we pray.
And that’s us. And I’m so glad it is.
“ Every morning I try & remember to be alive, he said, & then I count the hours until I get to go to sleep again. It makes for a certain creative tension, he added
Taher Shabab - New Song ( Kaliwaal & Mast! ) (via EnsaanYemAfghaan)
[Checking out Pukhto songs/videos via my buddy, B, and the dancing reminded me of this thread from flickr. -Y]
1 month ago![Heat Things Up In the Office - The Modern Materialist
“These heated gloves are powered via your USB port.”
[I want these. Badly. -Y]](http://media.tumblr.com/uqXi7MTIYce1hmil0Fqh7UBy_500.jpg)
Heat Things Up In the Office - The Modern Materialist
“These heated gloves are powered via your USB port.”
[I want these. Badly. -Y]
1 month ago