Lira for president!

Filed under Slice of Life by on April 17, 2009 at 12:01 am {11 comments}
Money Flower

If voting is the cornerstone of freedom then votes can’t be priced, because freedom would then have a price. It would no longer be free to be free – see what I did there?

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E-lust

Filed under Slice of Life by on April 10, 2009 at 12:01 am {4 comments}
Woman with Laptop

We live in a world larger than our egos, and understandably want to shrink it into manageable screens. And wouldn’t it just be lovely if our social lives were really servants of mice and keyboards?

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Queen of kings

Filed under Favorite Slices, Slice of Life by on April 3, 2009 at 12:01 am {10 comments}
Foot, shoe

Somewhere in the 19th century, a New Zealander drove the final nail into the patriarchal hierarchy coffin and gave women the right to vote. This is now widely regarded as a very bad move, and women have since plotted to enslave us.

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Evidence

Filed under Slice of Life by on March 27, 2009 at 12:10 am {3 comments}
Drunk on a stretcher

Memory is a fragile faculty, subject to time, lies, alcohol abuse and a hundred different chemical errors that could erase the unforgettable as easily as yesterday’s lunch.

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Boards and broads

Filed under Slice of Life by on March 20, 2009 at 4:34 am {no comments}
Snowboard

Anything of beauty can be dramatically improved upon with the addition of a woman. Snowboard? Beautiful. Women on snowboards? Sex! Well, for the most part.

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Chocolate cake

Filed under Favorite Slices, Slice of Life by on March 13, 2009 at 12:01 am {no comments}
Tattoo wings

The pub was crowded and loud, and there was chocolate involved. I know this because cake was rammed into my mouth before I sat down.

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  • Chocolate cake: The pub was crowded and loud, and there was chocolate involved. I know this because cake was rammed into my mouth before I sat down.
  • Robots in disguise: The man to blame for over a hundred music video clips and dozens of popular advertisements, Lebanese Said el Marouk has taken his show to the silver screen with a $200 million film.
  • Arabic soup: Writer and cultural editor of Al Safir, Abbas Beydoun talks about the effect of war on literature and the Lebanese. I think.
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