Archive - Mar 17, 2010 - Article

Bebinim 'o' Tamasha Konim

As we come up on yet another NoRooz, we once again wince in anticipation as to whether this will be a Google-ful or Google-less one. Each year, people better than me, have called, emailed, blogged, begged, tried to bribe Omid Kordestani's secretary, and even tried to ambush Omid at parties to convince our mightiest sword at Google to convince that small, evil, mean-spirited graphic designer in the basement, whose privileged job it is to put up the holiday logos, to stop playing with himself for 5 minutes, and put up a God-damned Haft Seen Google logo for once>>>

Rafsanjani's Long-Term Strategy

Empowering Himself Through Helping the GreensAs the Persian Nowruz New Year fast approaches and Iran's post-election crisis enters its ninth month, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani remains as mercurial a figure as ever in Iranian politics. True to his nickname of Kooseh, or "The Shark," Rafsanjani has been paying lip-service to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei while simultaneously signaling (if only tacitly) solidarity with Iran's Green opposition movement. With his reputation as an incredibly calculating figure, it is hard to believe that this contradiction is coincidental>>>

بزرگترین اشتباه خامنه‌ای

میلیون‌ها‌ ایرانی از زن و مرد و کوچک و بزرگ در سراسر کشور که در این شب در مراسم چهارشنبه-سوری شرکت کرده‌اند - در خانه یا خیابان، در شهر و روستا - با حضور خود به خامنه‌ای که گفته بود از این کار اجتناب کنید «نه» گفته‌اند. آنان عملا گفته‌اند که ولایت او را نمی‌پذیرند. آنان بدون نیاز به شعار و پرچم و تظاهرات حرف خود را زده‌اند. آنان خط بطلان بر ولی فقیه و اعتبار و اقتدار او کشیده‌اند. قاطبه آنان نیاز نداشته‌اند که به خیابان بیایند و نارضایی خود از حاکمیت را داد بزنند>>>

I know I’m in the right place

I am passionate-borderline obsessed- with food. My philosophy: if you can make it, why buy it? I jump fences to pick lemons, I make my own apple cider vinegar, I own nine aprons, and I’ve been known to swoon over the vibrant leaves of my garden’s purple potatoes. I’m stubborn in my ways of healthy eating and I (used to) think white rice is akin to a bowl of sugar. However, in the past several months, I’ve learned not only how to tame my convictions, but that above all else, food is celebratory. After graduating from Bauman College, a Nutritional Education and Culinary Arts school, I began an internship cooking lunches for an Iranian language immersion school>>>

Tiger, Tiger

I've had enough. Of all that isn't said, and then what is. One can't sit at a sushi counter without overhearing people talk about Tiger as if Hiroshima was just bombed. He is the next stop in this salad bar of stale ingredients we now get delivered as the nightly news, passing the baton from Monica Lewinsky to O.J. and MJ. Fed are the insatiable appetites of undernourished people on couches armed with powerful remote controls, changing from one analysis to the next as more journalists dig up revelations. So he proclaimed his apologies and hugged those that are willing to forgive, or at least identify with him, on camera>>>

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در سکوتی سنگین
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و نبض
که بیتابانه میزد
بر رگ
چونبی‌دادرسی بر زنجیر >>>

خانم معلم 6

مردم ما برعکس همه جای دنیا تغییرات را گلچین کرده اند. یاد گرفته اند رانندگی کنند و با کامپیوتر کار کنند اما هنوز که هنوز است حاضر نیستند در مزخرفات فکری و عقیدتی خود تجدید نظر کنند. هنوز هم برای درمان سرطان در ته دلشان ترجیح می دهند بجای سر زدن به پزشکان ماهر و استفاده از تکنولوژی درمانی نوین به یک به اصطلاح امامزاده در پرت ترین جای کشور بروند و خودشان را به ضریح پر برکت مقبره اش ببندند و آبی که کاغذهای چرک آلود رمالها را در آن تلیت کرده اند بخورند>>>