Ziad Sahhab at T Marbouta

I Hate Star Academy

As if that s*** wasn't bad enough, here are the poopstinkin pop-star
wannabes doing a Che Guevara dance. Damn you American Idol
and your global appeal.

Nice old Beiruti house

Across Bliss St, taken from inside AUB.

Downtown Beirut

A bit gratuitous, I know, but I couldn't narrow it down to just one pic.

Martyr's Square. The statues are appropriately still shot up from the civil war (the big one).

View to the port area. Tall white building in the distance is the grain silos. Bottom right is stage set up this week for a nightly festival featuring Lebanon's hottest pop stars. I'll watch the highlights later on TV, thank you.

Always thought this mosque was a bit out of proportion to everything else around it. The white-roofed area below is where Hariri and those who died with him are buried.

Lebanon elects a president

Lebanon elects a president

House party.

Beirut lives. Party at my friends' place in Sanayeh.

Fasten Life Jacket While Seated

Life vests and seat belts -- two things that are of no comfort to me
in case of a plane downing. I'm surprised to fully effect a false
perception of safety they don't have us wear life jackets while seated.

Vodafone/Nazis/SSNP

Is it just me or do the logos of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, the Nazis, and Vodafone have something in common?

Cyclists are not fallopian tubes.

Signage on an electric box New Haven (york & elm).

Nathan Hale Park, CT

Secluded beach on Long Island Sound.

Beinecke Library

The Beinecke Library building at Yale. I'm continually impressed by
this piece of architecture. The white marble walls are actually very
thin and glow like stained glass windows from the inside. There are
pictures all over the web of what the inside looks like.

Rally for Palestine, New York

That's Cynthia McKinney, Green Party candidate for President, speaking at the rally which was held at Dag Hammarskjold Park near the United Nations in New York. It rained like hell the whole day.

Neturei Karta were there, http://www.nkusa.org/

I like these guys.

Another sign of theirs read "Return Palestine in its entirety to the Palestinians" or something along those lines.

We marched down 2nd Ave, apparently past the Israeli Embassy but there was no sign that indicated where the embassy was. There were several hundred people in all, led by the largest Palestinian flag I've ever seen. The procession turned a serious number of heads in the barber shops, coffee shops, and restaurants we walked past, and there were people in all the office windows in the skyscrapers above gawking down as we marched by, cheering and chanting.

Bottletop Wisdom

Thanks, Honest Tea, for so well describing the current situation in
Lebanon.

The Hereafter, Gabriel Cruz

Private show last night at Miya's. Pierre on the left, he works at
Miya's and always hooks me up with something when I go there.

http://www.myspace.com/thehereafterishere

Ancient Geological Something Machine

I'm sure this machine once did something useful for someone. Now it's been consigned to the electronics trash corner.

Doesn't it look sad. The paper stuck to it says something along the lines of "no replacement parts for blue pen or foam rollers".

Battling on the Streets of Beirut

Friday's New York Times.
Why do I always get locked out of Lebanon by this sort of crap?
This happened to me in 2006 as well.
I'll refrain from commenting on the players in this game.

The Tower

Sleep of the Dead

Dead and rotting, but so peaceful.

Karaoke with the Ghostly TV

This was at Rudy's the other night in New Haven. It wasn't how I
intended the picture to come out, but I like the eeriness of the TV
glow. The power of TV compels you!

This is What Students Want You to Give Them

Comments welcome.