Will at KABOBfest already covered this one well, but I apparently cannot leave well enough alone. Yesterday, Yazan pointed out to me that there’s a Facebook group that opposes a mysteriously Kaaba-like building in New York. Now that I’ve read it all over, I realize that the group is slightly outdated, but that leaves me […]
While we await news about Hossein Derakhshan, the “Blogfather of the Iranian blogosphere,” it’s worth learning a little more about why blogging is so valued in Iran. This video, by the Vancouver Film School, demonstrates a bit about the blogging revolution happening there: Iran: A nation of bloggers from Mr.Aaron on Vimeo. But the video […]
…Someone really ought to define that. I wonder if any other languages have a special term for this phenomenon that I have experienced all too many times before. One of my favorite things about traveling – perhaps even the primary reason I do it – is catching glimpses, however brief, into the lives of others. […]