ramintork
23-Mar-2008
In the great tradition of blogging, i.e. brainstorming and intending to write a light hearted blog, with elements of mockementary it seemed I stepped on a land mine>>>
Shaer
23-Mar-2008 (3 comments)

"Self Explanatory".

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Bahram the Iranian
22-Mar-2008 (5 comments)
are we less eligibile Iranians to express our views than those monarchists who cannt even remember the name of the city they lived in Iran? >>>

EMIGRANT

The Indian's gift

My First Day in America

22-Mar-2008 (14 comments)
I think my first impression of America was when I landed at Chicago O'Hare Airport and I had to walk what seemed like a fifteen-mile hike to my next plane. But the impression that has stuck with me all these years is what I saw in the second airport where I was waiting for a connecting flight to my final destination, Oklahoma City. There, in a waiting hall no larger than my grandfather's living room back in Iran, I saw something that simply stopped me breathing! In the corner of the hall stood a statue of an American Indian. A tall, handsome, and muscular man, with long black hair cascading over his broad shoulders. He must have been at least six and half feet tall. His eyes looked directly forward, as if focused over the tops of some imaginary rocky mountains miles away.>>>

FATHER

I  Jumped For You

Although you are not with us anymore, you are not far away either

22-Mar-2008 (14 comments)
Dear Son, I wish I could tell you that your maman and I don’t still cry, but that would be a lie. We miss you more than ever and our hearts weep every day. Some days are better than others, of course, but not having you with us is still hard to cope with, but… we are doing the best we can. On this Nowruz I feel a flood of mixed emotions, just as your mother does. On the one hand, we both feel the heavy weight of your absence, but at the same time, we know just how much joy we had together over the years during Nowruz, and we don’t want to lose that like we lost you>>>

POETRY

بی انصافا

از من خجالت می کشه،

22-Mar-2008 (2 comments)

از زنی که یکروز اون رو
برهنه تو شکمش داشت
ولی حالا روشو ازش برگردونده
که زخمیش نکنه،
با وجودی که تموم وجودش اشتیاقه،
می خواد دوباره قورتش بده،
می خواد بچه ش دوباره کوچولو بشه
و خودشودرسته توش بندازه

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Behnam.sezavar
22-Mar-2008 (7 comments)
Funny Interview ...i cannot believe this the way people talk in Iran now on TV >>>
Behnam.sezavar
22-Mar-2008 (18 comments)
Iranian president greeting Iranians on Norooz, >>>

IDEAS

نوروز به هيچ ايدئولوژی سرسپردگی ندارد

نوروز شادی های بی آداب و ترتيب

22-Mar-2008 (5 comments)
تجربهء هفت هزار ساله به ما می گويد که اگر نوروز يک عيد و جشن مذهبی بود در همان نخستين خم کوچهء تاريخ از ميان رفته بود. اما نوروز، تنومند و با شکوه و زيبا ـ تکيه زده بر عصای ستبر جداسری (جدائی از ايدئولوژی و مذهب) ـ از راه بندان همهء مذاهب رد شده است تا امروز نيز در مقابل اين پهلوان پنبهء خرافات زدهء حکومت اسلامی بايستد و بگذارد تا نوکران حکومت شان تملق اش را بگويند، تاريخ و هويتش را معوج بازگويند و در لحظهء تحويل سال بسوی «عرش الهی» شان دست بگشايند و، در عيدی ايرانی، به زبان عربی التماس کنند که: «يا مقلب القلوب و الابصار...» >>>
Kamangir
22-Mar-2008 (9 comments)
Melancolic but yet cheerful song! >>>
Shaer
22-Mar-2008 (one comment)

"Self Explanatory".

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asghar62
21-Mar-2008
It started with a question: How can we inspire people to take action on climate change? >>>
Sheila K
21-Mar-2008

It's historically inaccurate but not the way we want it said.

//movies.yahoo.com/feature/10mosthistoricallyinaccurate.html

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ALBORZ

 کوه نخست

تمامی کوهها از خاک برخاستند – به جز البرز—و منشاَ شادمانی انسان گشتند.

21-Mar-2008 (2 comments)
درسفری اخیر به تهران خود را برای اولین بار شیفته البرز یافتم. گویا یک آشنازدایی رخ داده بود که مرا دلباخته کوهستانی میکرد که سالیان سال با بی تفاوتی نظاره گرش بودم و این در حالی که هر روزم را با نگاهی به البرز آغار کرده بودم. باید سالها میگذشتند تا دور از وطن و در شهری عاری از کوه، به ارزش صلابت و استفامت البرزپی میبردم، چراکه علی رغم آنچه در طی قرون و اعصار بر ما رفته است، علی رغم اهانتهایی که به میراث فرهنگیمان منجمله تخت جمشید و پاسارگاد روا داشته اند، این کوه ها را نتوانسته اند از ما بگیرند. هزاران نگهبان هم که به البرز روانه شده اند تا از درهم آمیختن دو جنس جلوگیری به عمل آورند، کوه ها همجنان با استحکام ایستاده و پذیرای عاشقان عشق و دوستداران طبیعت بوده اند.>>>

STORY

The Spider Killings (10)

Ramin had enjoyed the interview with Roxanne more than he should have

21-Mar-2008 (one comment)
Roxanne had been grilling Ramin for a half hour now, about the state of crime, in particular prostitution, in Mashad, his crime statistics, his office hierarchy, the qualifications of his staff etc. It had all boiled down in the end to the recent murder of the woman found on a busy city street a couple of weeks ago. The woman Roxanne believed was maybe the third or fourth victim of a serial killer, nicknamed the Spider Killer behind closed doors. Her friend Peyman’s informant would not elaborate on a precise number of victims, just that there had been more than two>>>