2007

(El-Mina, Lebanon)

number four

I almost fucking died tonight.
but again i didnt. i only ended up with a scar on my right knee.

more on Beirut soon.

I'm going home.

(pic: somewhere in Boston)

sweet sixteen yo!

sugar and spice and all things nice..

happy birthday ya zgheereh. the most beautiful sixteen year old in the world. anyone dare say otherwise?

I love you baby. joy of my life. what keeps me going.
see you soon. we're gonna have a blast, as always. and mom will go nuts. as always :)

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(Chocolate Brown- The Cranberries)

us- on the inside, and in slow motion

a peek of what's going on right now in any one of our cells.
despite this awesome animation and the huge simplification (things are a bit more crowded in there), all of these fascinating movements (the 'walking', 'hugging', the brilliant 'team strategies') actually take place in real life in exactly the same way, and they all work together in such harmony and precision..how cool is that?

thanks megz

you and me and and our favorite characters over burgers and fries.
i love discussing those books with you. the sadness of reaching the last page and the feeling of desertion and emptiness that follows. and when the characters become those friends that you miss and worry about and smile when you think of.
i hesitated before that hug you know. as you stormed out of the elevator i realized how much i love you and how lucky i am to have you somewhere in my life. i smiled and i felt like a kid with high heels who has just fallen in love with a nutcracker.

(pic: yes, the usual, harvard yard, it was a beautiful day today and i felt so good and in love with everyone as i was walking to work in the morning...i even smiled to strangers...should i be worried?)

(thanks roubA)

soho

to all "civilized" individuals complaining of "peasants" and "sheep" downtown

I think most of you are doing a not-so-bad job in hiding your disgust for your fellow lebanese (yes, Lebanese I dared type!) demonstrators under the slogans of 'the constitution', 'democracy' 'anti-syrian/iranian' and 'pro-national unity'..very nice work so far. but see, some people are too transparent. I mean really it's starting to seem as if you have something real personal against those lebanese men and women, i dont know, could it be the way they're dressed, the minimal use of french/english/'westernized' protocols..or the fact that they are camped out in front of buddha bar with their argiles and stuff...? horror!

a few examples:
- name calling: syrians, iranians (not that there's anything wrong with it, but fyi, they're as lebanese as you are- whatever that means), traitors, sheep, dirty/uncivilized, monkeys performing tricks, terrorists (you're starting to remind me of bush and his racist friends by the way)..etc etc
- direct advice: on how to conduct 'clean' 'civilized' demonstrations just as those carried out by the march 14 'secular' 'intellectuals'
- indirect advice: on how these primitive demonstrations are absurd because 'soon they'll all be back to the gutters they came from'..and so on and so forth, you get the picture

the music is fading, and your words can be clearly heard. enough with the arrogance. the double standards. the ignorance. the delusions. etc. etc.

hahaha

President Bush's policy in Iraq "is not working," the Iraq Study Group said in releasing its long-awaited report.

and such a pretty girl

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