Mamnou3 El Intizar

Work continues on Mamnou3 El Intizar. I want to thank everybody for their comments and downloads, and I can assure you that the album is almost finished, and I’ll start working out release options pretty soon. So far, the track listing includes tracks such as ‘Shafshaq’, ‘Ghali’, and ‘Be3eed’ – which you may have heard through...

Sultans and Scarves

Three weeks ago, an Egyptian Muslim mother and wife, four months with child, was stabbed to death in Dresden, the civilian city bombed to the ground by the allies during World War II. She was stabbed in full view of her son and husband, and when her husband rushed to defend her, he himself was...

Ahmedinejad, The U.S., and The Iranian Elections

It’s an easy enough lie to digest. Ahmedinejad is a nutcase. Look at him, he’s been wearing the same jacket for years, ever since we ever laid eyes on him. He’s unshaven, looks kind of gruffy. He exhudes an informal, almost clumsy air and doesn’t seem like much of an orator. He’s soft spoken enough to...

Mamnou3 El Intizar

Posted 1 month ago in Music, Slider
Work continues on Mamnou3 El Intizar. I want to thank everybody for their comments and downloads, and I can assure you that the album is almost finished, and I’ll start working out release options pretty soon. So far, the track listing includes tracks such as ‘Shafshaq’, ‘Ghali’, and ‘Be3eed’ – which...

What About MY Nobel Peace Prize?

Posted 4 months ago in SeptiC
I sneezed last week. It was a good sneeze. It announced itself to my nose with a slight but telling twitch, and when I let it go – it shook through my whole body, and went through like a shock-wave, finding deliriously pleasant release both from my mouth and my nostrils....

Sultans and Scarves

Posted 6 months, 1 week ago in Media, SeptiC, Slider
Three weeks ago, an Egyptian Muslim mother and wife, four months with child, was stabbed to death in Dresden, the civilian city bombed to the ground by the allies during World War II. She was stabbed in full view of her son and husband, and when her husband rushed to...

Black & White

Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago in SeptiC
I keep getting told that life is not black and white, that I can be too judgmental – that things are not that cut and dried. That the Good is not discrete. That the Good and the Bad hold hands, that they blur into a vague grey. Crap. Actually, life looks grey...

Ahmedinejad, The U.S., and The Iranian Elections

Posted 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Media, SeptiC, Slider
It’s an easy enough lie to digest. Ahmedinejad is a nutcase. Look at him, he’s been wearing the same jacket for years, ever since we ever laid eyes on him. He’s unshaven, looks kind of gruffy. He exhudes an informal, almost clumsy air and doesn’t seem like much of an orator....

Obama In Cairo

Posted 8 months ago in SeptiC
Well, here he was. Massive hype, of course, an event touted as a game-changer for American/Arab relations and something that a lot of people were eagerly expecting. Even before the event, certain facts were being highlighted within the region - Unlike most, if not all, US Presidents of the last few decades, Obama...

Tele-Vision

Posted 9 months ago in Media
Sit down. Tune in, and grab a beer. See what you might otherwise miss. Give us 30 seconds - and with one blank frame every thirty - we’ll put you up into a deep hypno-idiotic state during which you’ll be up to 25 times more susceptible to The...

ShortCuts

Posted 9 months, 4 weeks ago in SeptiC
Shortcuts are offered. In flavors tailored to appeal to both men and women. For men, books like The Laws of Power basically provide a pseudo-mystical-alpha-male warrior disguise for what, basically, is a manual on how to be an asshole. Hardly the first of that kind that we’ve seen. The excuse offered to...

Lie To Me, She Says.

Posted 10 months, 1 week ago in SeptiC
Buffy: “Does it ever get easy?” Giles: “You mean life?” Buffy: “Yeah, does it get easy?” Giles: “What do you want me to say?” Buffy: “Lie to me.” Giles: “Yes, it’s terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true. The bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats..and uh…we always defeat them...

Batman Falls Victim! The Joker Didn’t Do It – Morrison Did!

Posted 11 months, 1 week ago in Media
I am sick of Grant Morrison. My exposure to comics has lessened over the years. I’ve been living in Egypt, so unless I download the occasional scan or buy the trade paperbacks from Amazon, I don’t get to read as much as I used to. Still, when I travel, I spend...
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