My hair colour looked great, except the roots had begun to yellow. I went in to get it fixed, and the hairdresser said, “we will have to go a little bit darker.” No problem, right? WRONG. The hair is brown, brown, brown, the fringe is huge, huge, huge, and I am attempting to drown myContinue reading “Wrong Colour! Bad Fringe! But Bush is Out! And Kiev is Great!”
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US Airways Flight 1549 and a Gaza protest nearby
First of all, I have a new hero, his name is Chesley B. Sullenberger, he rocks that pilot’s uniform, and he also rocks crash-landings into the Hudson. La Guardia to Charlotte on US Airways? I’ve gone that route many times. I’m still trying to figure out if anyone I knew was on that plane. Anyway,Continue reading “US Airways Flight 1549 and a Gaza protest nearby”
“It was Christmas Eve, babe, In the drunk tank…”
I know I put up this video last year, but my mood seems to be oddly the same this year: The weather in Amman has gotten completely wild, to the point that the wind was literally blowing me sideways as I made my way down the street and to the house (I could point theContinue reading ““It was Christmas Eve, babe, In the drunk tank…””
Snow-beaten
The wind is rattling the windows again. It’s colder in our neighbourhood, up on the hills, higher than the center. We are up near Batiy’s Mountain, as they call it, a place where some warlord named Batiy once came and pitched his tent to survey the city below him. And on quiet nights around here,Continue reading “Snow-beaten”
Beautiful People, the Older Women Are Hawt Edition
It’s getting cold around here, especially at night. Soon, we are going to an even colder place – the place of my birth, where there is snow, and prowling skinheads, and a purring kitteh on the window, and rose-patterned bedsheets, and my mother and wonderful aunts and grandmothers. I’m in the mood for mulled wineContinue reading “Beautiful People, the Older Women Are Hawt Edition”
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