Posted in Uncategorized on June 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
My review
rating: 3 of 5 stars
I read this out of conviction for not having read enough of the Jewish Lit canon. Behrman reassured me that it was witty but misogynist. He was not wrong. Basically? Kid with ‘typical’ overbearing Jewish mother fucks shikses, doesn’t care about them, finally gets to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 20, 2008 | No Comments »
I know most of the bigwigs whom I know and love and read hate on Keith Gessen a lot but this piece helped further my current malaise. Or rather, maybe it means I have to hate on Keith Gessen too? Whatevs, I hate my life, LIFE’S HARD.
Posted in anthropology, tagged academia, harvard, islamic studies, prince al-waleed, saudi, women on May 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So. Due to my Father’s endless gift/penchant for what we Arabs like to call wasta [yes, you can take this sentence to mean that, as Hall's proverbial de-centered subject, I- on occasion- self-identify as Arab], a cooler word for connections, he landed a job with the perks [and pitfalls?] of occasionally canoodling with Saudi royalty. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 8, 2008 | No Comments »
hoooooooah! I love it when people fictionalize early hominid history ["cavemen". hmm.] in order to try to make a case for masculinity. [All you have to watch are the last 20 seconds]
Sometimes I’m embarrassed to self-identify as hetero because of douchebags like this.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged habermas, zizek, "public intellectuals", foreign policy magazine on April 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If m’boy Jürgen doesn’t win this, then there’s not really a point to the term “Public Intellectual”, now is there?
…Then again, it is Foreign Policy magazine. You wouldn’t be an FP reader if you liked Zizek, and weren’t a toolbag.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged pie, thomas friedman on April 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Would that I were that hero who PIED THOMAS FRIEDMAN IN THE FACE.
[Brown Daily Herald via IvyGate]
[Update: There's video- I almost feel bad for him, but as Alex says, it's okay to feel bad for Tom as long as I feel good about him being pied in the face too!]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged erykah badu on April 22, 2008 | No Comments »
How many people have you truly loved?
I’ve always wanted the best for everyone in my life. Except for one person: Bombita. She was in the fifth grade with me. She can die.
What?
She was mean. She used to step on my toes, anything to make me mad. I hope she’s a ghetto statistic. And if that [...]
Posted in facebook, popular culture, tagged facebook, five love languages, pop psychology on April 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Gary Chapman is famous because of his pop Psychology hit The Five Love Languages (Subtitle: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate). For some reason this book is on my parents’ bookshelf, along with the Teen Version. Generally, we prefer to scream about Arab Nationalism or Marx or the semantics of the term ‘Tribal’ [...]
Posted in Egypt, Uncategorized, tagged cairo, new york times, noise on April 14, 2008 | No Comments »
If you’ve ever had the pleasure of, say, eating dinner with my family, you’re probably perplexed as to why we are all so damn loud. Well. Now you know!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged facebook, fuck facebook, i hate facebook, mark zuckerTURD on April 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So you know how I HATE ‘People You May Know‘? I guess Doree Shafrir hates it too!
I also recently penned this semi-desperate email to privacy@facebook.com:
Please, I am begging you, get rid of the “People You May Know” option, or at least make it optional for users, or make it so that users can make themselves [...]
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