“…no girls interested in Trek before this new movie”

I shit you not, my fair friends, someone has actually posted the line above. I had a sarcastic response lined up, and then I thought, why bother? Why bother with someone who’s invested in the idea that Star Trek belongs to a noble subculture of dudely doodz whose responses to it are so much moreContinue reading ““…no girls interested in Trek before this new movie””

More on Michael Jackson: Fame and money can attract the wrong people to your boudoir

Yesterday, someone left a charming comment calling me a “Stockholm syndrome-infected pedophile-lover” because I’m not, like, ecstatic that my childhood hero and pop star legend Michael Jackson has died. I would like to invite this person, and anyone else who may hold similar views, to kindly kiss my ass. As I mentioned in my columnContinue reading “More on Michael Jackson: Fame and money can attract the wrong people to your boudoir”

Monday Music: The Dusty Winds of Khamasin Edition

So we are in this season in Amman where the dust gets into my laptop’s keyboard if I imprudently take it outside, and it gets into the kitties’ fur as well, and this is why you’ll see me chasing the kitties with the Dustbuster and screeching a lot. I have accepted the fact that IContinue reading “Monday Music: The Dusty Winds of Khamasin Edition”