Random posts

• Burned breakfast: When it comes to playing with food, nothing is more dangerous than ruining a man’s breakfast.
• Chalk please!: I know he was being helpful, but I’m neither blind nor stupid; what bothered me the most though, is that I’d actually asked for wine, not wipes.
• The gypsy emperor: Michel Elefteriades – guerilla fighter, artist, musician –doesn't even consider himself Lebanese, rather the Emperor of Nowhereistan, a state with no land and where everyone is welcome. Provided they pass the test. Where do we sign up?
• Armenian school of rock: Armenian rocker Eileen Khatchadourian has managed to blend traditional Armenian rhythms with rock, and more rock. Here's how she did it.
• Spin out: Local favorite and internationally acclaimed Clint Maximus gives me a peak into the life of a DJ.
• Twinkle, twinkle: I’ve always had an overactive imagination, and scaring myself half to death with, say, a mental image of Willie’s teeth and bubbling stomach was apparently insufficient. I had to give him a glowing, red eye.
• Google hates Arabs, and housekeepers?: Here's a fun, racist trick someone taught me with Google translate today; totally worth sharing.
• Got money: Rappers are philosophers, and while we've been mining into Confucius and Plato, these young G’s have had the answers to life, the universe and women all along.
• Desert toes: In Cairo, there’s an overcrowded area called Khan el Khalil. There I was, wet, smelly and limping on what may have been a broken toe; just like me to have a flashback.
• Venus attacks: He stops and sniffs his drink. Their eyes lock for half a minute – but men are ill-equipped for these games.
• Seed of Zicco: Zicco House is much more than just the poetry readings and concerts at the Samra Bar: it's a launch-pad for the country's most prominent movements, and has become a hub for thinkers and dissidents who dream of change.