Random posts

• Monkey seeds revolution: Corporate Lebanon is a repressive, power-hungry world with nary a ray of hope. One monkey fights back!
• Take me home: Just as Robinson Crusoe rediscovered religion, my mother called to chat, and suddenly I felt a little bit better.
• Grass and kufta: Somewhere in my late twenties I joined the Time Out family, and within a year I had built a mental database of cheeses, meats, oils, herbs and plenty of things that I’d never before let into my stomach.
• Road pigs: The leader of the pack (cue 60s music) raised his hand in a fist, and the procession came to a halt. He dismounted his hog like it was a horse, and walked towards the bunny with the largest bosom.
• Toon out: Armand Homsi has spent the better part of his life speaking out through cartoons. Known mostly for his contributions to An Nahar, he never shies away from speaking his mind.
• Google hates Arabs, and housekeepers?: Here's a fun, racist trick someone taught me with Google translate today; totally worth sharing.
• Bless the rains: The 30-year-old Lebanese-Canadian singer, producer and songwriter Karl Wolf has had a couple of successful visits to Beirut, and promises more.
• My Bin Laden: Charbel Khalil made his name by finding Bin Laden, straightening out politicians and comically dismissing the country's leaders; something he still doesn't regret, even if it almost started a war.
• Little fish: Some 2 million years ago, give or take ten minutes, in a cheery cave in central Africa, an ancestor paused in an unprecedented moment of consideration and regarded his mate.
• Ford in the morning: Local DJ Gavin Ford has kept us company many a bleak morning with his hit show on Radio One; 'and one last thing, what's the radio station that loves you?' Here's a peak into his mind.
• Business beef: I generally tend to avoid potentially violent confrontations in closed environments, especially when said environments float at around 50,000 feet.