Mubarak is out! Here’s the happy scene on my local Arab drag: Steinway Street, in Astoria, Queens, New York. Three of the five news vans: A happy crowd (small, because I only got there at 4pm): My friend, Ali El Sayed, making delicious food as always, equally happy: (You can see the “1919 Trevor Ethnic map of New York City”…
Attack Camels?! This is not a picture I ever expected to see: Luckily, and unlike the tear gas, this tool of repression doesn’t have “Made in U.S.A.” stamped on it. [“I mean whoa!”]
Here are some more pics from a good day in Bangkok last week.
Some of you may have posted comments and wondered why they didn’t appear (or think I deleted them). Turns out blogger/google automatically sorts out the spam comments. Problem is all the comments it thinks are spam, aren’t (including some of my own). I’ll try and check that “spam” folder more often, now that I know it exists.
Inshallah, Hosni Mubarak, the latest in a long line of Egyptian Pharaohs, will soon be history. I think about Egypt more than most people. My wife studied in Cairo and speaks Arabic, I’ve visited Egypt three times, and one of my best friends here in New York is Egyptian-American, from Alexandria. He hates Mubarak, of course, and what Egyptian wouldn’t?…
I’m back in New York. Twenty-one hours of flight back was not nearly as bad as it should have been. And now it’s good to be home, but strange to see snow after a few weeks in Bangkok. Here are some pics from our trip. Mostly of our day trip to the Maeklong market, which features a train running through…
I guess I’m a day late and a dollar short. I didn’t actually know it was MLK Day (but hell, I’m in Thailand). But happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day to everybody. Seriously. Some mock this holiday, but not me. Not only is it good to have more holidays in general and particularly in the dark days of January and…
It’s my nameday, school is out, and my wife and I are whizzing through the air in an amazing flying machine that but 110 years ago, was an unimaginable fantasy. (When this post comes out, we’ll be on our way to Dubai, en-route to Bangkok.) My second book, In Defense of Flogging, is all-but done. It’s been a slog. Last…
From the Chicago Sun Times: Sex toy defendant arrested for failing to show up to court. Warning: there’s a picture of Ms. Bildsten, 56, of Gurnee, Ill. Here’s how she first came to our attention.
Why it’s that time of year again… you know, the time of year when I tell you to buy my book. It is a quick and easy present. Cop in the Hood, available from Amazon.com. And for all you cheapskate cops, it’s less than $15. Just lock up one looser and you’ll make more than that in overtime. And if…