Archive for September, 2009
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
I Am Back
Been offline and busy, got married in Morocco, still waiting for the music to stop playing in my ears. But now. I am back.
And I don’t feel like talking about politics.
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Saturday, September 19th, 2009
Let’s Get Lost
Last night I saw Let’s Get Lost, the most chillingly disturbing film that I can remember having seen in a long time. It wasn’t horror movie, but a documentary about the Jazz trumpeter and singer, Chet Baker. In the film, director Bruce Weber goes back and forth between 1988 interviews of the then 57 year […]
5 Comments » - Posted in Digressions, Jazz by eric
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Been Busy
Sorry for not writing much these days, but I have been real busy (who hasn’t?). I’ll be back in full swing once things calm down a little.
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
The Free Speech Hypocrisy
In her Washington Post op-ed, “Yale’s Misguided Retreat”, Mona Eltahawy describes how the fabricated controversy over a 2005 Danish cartoon was manipulated by “two right wings — a non-Muslim one that hijacked the issue to fuel racism against immigrants in Denmark, and a Muslim one that hijacked the issue to silence Muslims and fuel anti-Western […]
