February 2011
46 posts
Last Thursday, the Egyptian Soccer Federation announced that they would be suspending all league games throughout the country in an effort to keep the soccer clubs from congregating. Clearly this was a case of too little, too late. Even without games, the football fan associations have been front and center organizing everything from the neighborhood committees that have been providing security...
January 2011
42 posts
tv news follies...
i have close to 2000 cable channels, yet not one of them is showing acceptable egypt coverage. al jazeera’s live stream on friday and saturday was some of the most engrossing and suspenseful television i have ever seen. it was historical. it was powerful. it was being skillfully shot and contextualized as it was happening in real time. al jazeera has simply been dominating everyone this...
في مصر
in egypt, the hours are never alike …
each minute is a memory the nile birds reknew.
i was there. the human being was inventing
… and darns eternity’s perforated cloak while facing
on of the paths of the wind. i was there. mankind
was writing the wisdom of death/life.
and everything is sentimental, moonstruck … except the poem
attending to its tomorrow and...
jordan, yemen, syria, morocco, palestine, algeria … who’s got next?
big tings a gwan (2011): a reggae mix
a proven tonic for 36+ inches of snow in a single month, island withdrawal, and other assorted maladies. big tunes, big tings, big year…
1. Scientist - Seconds Away 2. Johnny Osbourne - No Lollipop No Sweet So 3. Don Carlos - Knock Knock 4. Hugh Mundell - Jacqueline 5. Wayne Wade - Poor & Humble 6. Eek-A-Mouse - Ganja Smuggling 7. John Holt - Police...
The PA was designed in the 1993 Oslo agreement to be a temporary administration for a five-year transition to statehood. Eighteen years later it has become an open-ended authoritarian quasi state, operating as an outsourced security arm of the Israeli occupation it was meant to replace, funded and effectively controlled by the US, Britain and other western governments.
the household appliance treatment
at halftime today, chief bbc football writer phil mcnulty quipped…
Blackpool have produced a wonderful 45 here and totally deserve their 2-0 lead. Sir Alex Ferguson won’t just get the hairdryer out - this is a job for the full range of household appliances.
the appliances sure came out at halftime! three goals in the last fifteen minutes for the huge win. two from berba and...
johnny osbourne - fally ranking
bourbon, kinder bars, and johnny osbourne.
For the second year in a row, the U.S. military has lost more troops to suicide than it has to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.
colder than a polar bear’s toenail.
25 Tons of Bombs Wipes Afghan Town Off the Map
In October, a U.S.-led military unit pulverized an Afghan village in Kandahar’s Arghandab River Valley after it became overrun with Taliban insurgents. It’s hard to understand how turning an entire village into dust fits into America’s counterinsurgency strategy — which supposedly prizes the local people’s loyalty above all else.
In the precarious dance for survival, in which we long to honor the dead while still harboring the fear of joining them, will our rivers and streams even be trusted to shelter and then return souls?
تونس
TUNIS — President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia has left the country amid growing chaos in the streets, French diplomats say, and the prime minister went on state television Friday night to say he is temporarily in charge.
the food crisis. failed us regional polices. wikileaks disclosures. massive inequality. press censorship. unemployment. social media. a perfect storm in an unlikely...
“I thought there were good and bad tonight. I think the good very much, as the others talked about, telling the stories of heroism, the stories of sacrifice. The president’s good at that. That’s humanizing. It dignifies. The details dignify. I think the president’s good at that.
- Michael Gerson, former Bush speechwriter
THIS EXPLAINS SO MUCH.
also, from now on,...
New government figures for the global climate show that 2010 was the wettest year in the historical record, and it tied 2005 as the hottest year since record-keeping began in 1880.
ominous and terrifying.
“there’s a kind of unconscious identification between the word ‘street’ in...”
– edward said, culture and resistance
On Monday, Arizona’s handgun sales jumped 60 percent.
shadows. mirrors. refraction. symmetry.
Ahmadinejad Was Slapped in the Face, According to WikiLeaks
a tale of two daleys...
daley, 1968
It was five days of mayhem in the Windy City, five days that left the Democratic Party in shambles. Outside, along Chicago’s gleaming Michigan Avenue and in leafy Lincoln Park, Mayor Richard J. Daley’s police department went on an officially sanctioned rampage. The cops clubbed and tear-gassed antiwar protesters and bystanders alike.
daley, 2011
As he remakes his staff...
“only in chaos are we conceivable.”
– roberto bolaño, 2666
“one may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.”
– khalil gibran. happy b-day to the lebanese writing don dada. (via notaqueensphotoblog)
Watchi can’t stop listening to this track, from jamie xx’s forthcoming gil scott-heron remix album, we’re new here.
also today, his remix of this adele tune dropped alongside a rather dope bbc1 mix from last night.
The XX was truly the indie dark horse phenomenon of recent memory – who knew that an unknown crew of London goth-y kids, barely out of their teens and barely able to...
