I’ve always been really resistant to linear thinking or absolutes, especially when it comes to people. I try to see people in a way that’s respectful to their humanity, and for me that means not seeing someone as just one thing - their job, age, race, whatever - and especially not their nationality or cultural […]
This New York Times article on haggling at big-box stores (“At Megastores, Hagglers Find Prices Are Flexible”) made me laugh out loud, and not just because it uses the word dicker, but because my people have been haggling the crap out of everything everywhere for, like, 2500 years. And lots of other people do this, […]
At the Zen Buffet on Victory Boulevard, if you come late for lunch, they want you to check how much food they have left before they seat you. Everything looks fine, so we stay, and the hostess walks us to a booth by a window looking out onto the vast parking lot. I can see […]
I don’t have the best hearing. I’ve always been just ever-so-slightly deaf. Not deaf enough for it to really matter (i.e., I don’t wear a hearing aid and medically, I don’t need one), but my hearing is such that I frequently mishear words and sound quite stupid upon repeating them.
So it should not really be […]
As I get ready to pick up my fashion-plate little sister from LAX today, on her return from a trip to England (quick note here that my sister is far cooler than I will ever be, though she expects a certain level of chic from her older sibling, and this is why I have to […]
1. My interview with Homa Sarshar, the Iranian Barbara Walters, went really well. It’s so cool to talk to someone who does what you want to do and, in her case, has been doing it successfully for more than 40 years. She was really gracious. Now I have to transcribe our conversation, which always blows, […]
“I go, but I don’t ask myself what road,
which home, what destination?
I yield kisses but don’t even know
who stands as a god in my unglued heart.”
- Forough Farrokhzad, “Lost”
1. Change of Plan: My much-anticipated interview today fell through because of miscommunication, but here’s hoping for a re-sked soon. Note to self: always confirm and re-confirm everything with everyone, via as many communication vehicles as possible, as many times as possible.
2. Distractions: I’m in the Coral Tree Cafe in Encino, attempting to start NaNoWriMoing. […]
I’m so there.
Here’s a blog I occasionally write on at Iranian.com. Tonight I wrote some observations/suggestions for improving the Iranian web, as I see it.