Archive - Dec 16, 2009

Dogs

The boy had been in America for a year, but still every time he saw a dog being walked on a leash by his master, he thought, 'How do you stand for this? How come you don't rise up? Nobody deserves to be pulled around by a leash.' He would look at the dog and the dog wouldn't seem to care. But from his bed at night he would hear the neighborhood dogs barking and it seemed like they were calling for their freedom. He didn't know about this place, where tyranny was not as close at hand as it had been in Iran, but the tyranny that was there seemed to go unseen>>>

Long live Imam Khomeini

Imam Hossein on a par with Imam Khomeini>>>

زنِ ناشناس

یکی از کارهای همیشگی من، همسرم و دخترم یکشنبه ها رفتن به کافه است. البته نه به هرکافه ای؛ بر سر جادۀ باریکی که از درون روستای کوچکی آغاز می شود و بطرف طبیعت ادامه می یابد، کافه ای قرار دارد که پاتوق همیشگی ماناست. مثل هر یکشنبه به آنجا رفتیم. من مشغول خوردن آبجو بودم و همسر و دخترم با یک خانم دیگر در حال گپ زدن که به ناگهان در کافه باز شد و زنی با زیبایی سحرانگیزی وارد گردید. صدای همهمه مشتریان به سکوت مبدل گشت و همه نگاه ها به زن ناشناس خیره شد>>>

My Cosmic Tree

A twelve-year-old radiating heaven
I’m sitting high up in a huge walnut tree
standing in its glory in the midst of
Grandma’s orange orchard under
a roasting summer sun
on the shore of the
Caspian Sea >>>

"If I only could / make a deal with God / and get him to swap our places"

"Running up that Hill" cover by Placebo (2003, 2007) and original by Kate Bush (1985) >>>

A date, sex, and now execution

Mosleh Zamani will be executed on Thursday for having had sex with his girlfriend when he was 17.  Please sign petition to save him. >>>

Whats in a NAME?! (Persian vs. Iranian: The Timeless Debate)

Tehran, an Iranian/American tries to determine whether he is half Persian or half Iranian. >>>