Archive - Aug 27, 2007

I married myself

As an Iranian girl, it is so hard not to get obsessed with getting married. There is so much pressure from our families and from society but it also seems like a lot of it is internal. I want to get married, I want to share my life with someone, I want to have children - but before I can do that successfully, I need to learn how to love myself. >>>

Missing: Donna Jou still not found!

Donna Haghigat Jou has been missing since June 23, 2007 and her Family misses her much. >>>

Xerxes

Interestingly Hollywood may well discover a new and interesting version of the legendary tale of Xerxes and Esther thanks to a script written by a beautiful American actor/writer of Iraqi heritage: Ren A. Hakim. All the more interesting is that Hakim's script is titled Xerxes and tries to take a look at this story from the perspective of the King whose reign saw the expansion of the Persian Empire to its pinnacle and during which the Palace of Persepolis was to be completed as an architectural Imperial legacy for future generations before its fatal destruction and burning centuries later by Alexander the Great. >>>

79 children on the execution row in Iran.

In February 2007 when Stop Child Execution Petition and website at www.stopchildexecutions.com were launched we were aware of 25 recorded cases of children awaiting execution in Iran. Due to highened awareness about the subject within Iran every month parents and lawyers of more children in Iran have contacted SCE and others asking for help.

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گزارش بیست و چهارم آگوست

ساعت سه و نیم با جی قرار گذاشته بودم در پاپ مترو نزدیک ایستگاه قطار لیورپول.پنج دقیقه دیر رسیدم چون یک ایستگاه قطار را اشتباهی سوار شده بودم .شب قرار بود برای مسافرت دو هفته ای به هلند و چند جای دیگر برود .دو ساعتی با هم گپ زدیم و طبق معمول پر از لذت و شادی برایم بود ، محور حرفها از شیما و مارینا ، از پروژه تواب سازی و نیروهای اپوزوسیون و از جزیره و ایرانی هایی که هنوز در دنیای آزاد در سال پنجاه و هفت مانده اند و دنیا را سیاه و سفید می بینند بود .>>>

Somebody is calling my name

I don’t know the meaning of my name. But I know one thing: my name is entirely what I am. Already, I’ve forgotten the name that’s given to me. Maybe if I think harder, I’ll remember it. Yet I feel no urge to look for it: it was like all those things that must have been lost, those that must have been gone and set free in formlessness. I shaped my new name on my own, though. First, it was simply an insignificant speck of pollen among thousands of other specks, drifting around in the air, searching for the pistil. I waved at that very spec and it floated toward me. “Just don’t forget to water me everyday,” it whispered.>>>

1001 Jobs !!

Welder to the Stars. On the way to Mars. Designing the Malls. Building the Stalls. Poker is my game. Evening I start. <!--break-->

Iranians are the smartest people I know. Always thinking, always doing. <!--break-->

Tell all of us what you do. Your fun, different, weired, way out there jobs. No rules, nothing is in and nothing is out.<!--break-->

I will report with the results in the next posting.

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The first mammal

In moments of statistical introspection, I wonder if LA Dodgers fans are generally Pahlavi supporters. The occasional Shah picture posted on huge Westwood billboards, and the handful of TV stations time capsuling pre-revolution Tehran are tempting bits of data. San Francisco Giants fans, on the other hand, are likely pro-Mossadegh, though I lack the evidence of billboards. Needless to say, Giants rule and Dodgers suck, but it is nice occasionally to brawl with facts and reason. Two meticulously researched books by Oxford scholar Homa Katouzian hit the ball right out of the ballpark for the Giants.>>>

The New Iranian.com Site

The new Iranian.com site is very nice and COOOOL... but it's like I have remodeled my kitchen and now I have to find where all the pots and pans and other items are in the kitchen cabinets! I now have to look for the "news headlines", the "Iranians of the day", the silly cartoons (!)>>>

A Cordial Request from Management

Management should look into implementing a lasting “ignore feature” for use by registered users at their discretion. Hossein Derakhshan (hoder) has entered into Iranian.com dome.  He deserves to be permanently zapped by me clicking on “ignore” feature. He will be off my screen. This power of choice does not violate his right of speech.   >>>

Just Issue a "fatwa" about whoever thinks " Mosaddegh" was a human being!

Due to Ms. Mahshid Amirshahi article about the old and boring topic of " 28 Mordad" as a person who belongs to a generation that had nothing to do with the revolution like to say I am sick and tired of intolerable, rigid- minded and narcissistic people belong to the past. I don't underestand why nobody has right to criticize Mosadegh or think diffrent about "28 Mordad". A person like " Jalal Matini" runs a research about that era and he does not say a word from himself but brings a lot of evidence get accused by pro Mosaddeghs as " Shahollahi" ( Such a meaningless word) and even somebody is claming "Matini" is an illitrate man in leteracy! >>>

Iranian Satellite Station Defrauds Audience

The following is an account by a friend of mine, Borhan, evidencing, yet again, the lack of both journalistic and quality care by most Iranian satellite stations.

As I was flipping channels out of curiosity to see if anyone with 1/10 brain about producing TV material has arrived on Persian satellite television to surprise me with something bearable, I stopped to look at some sort of auction on Kanal Yek Television (Channel One) was having with a lady who looked like Shirin Ebadi with a shorter hair-cut at 9:20PM on August 26, 2007. After a few seconds I noticed she was using the word IPod to describe the product, when I looked and listened closer, I noticed that the product was indeed NOT apple's Ipod but rather one of these many Chinese knock-offs of Ipod [The linked product is the closest thing to that I could find online] >>>

Shit that keeps me up

I often wonder what happens if a suicide bomber finds out that one of his 40 virgins is not a virgin. What is the return policy in heaven? >>>

Iranians and blogs

Iranians are largest contributors to the blogosphere (percentage wise). >>>