It’s been a fucking weird past week. I’ve been drinking way too much (again), a family of rabid foxes have moved into my back garden, and a midget kicked me in the shins for looking at it funny. Then, mysteriously, someone posted the photo above as my desktop image, and I’ve been traumatised ever since. On top of this, I’ve had to put up with the excruciatingly tedious drivel pouring out from the Conservative party conference. Who gives a shit if they all got wrecked off expensive bottles of champagne? They’re rich toffs. That’s what they do. They drink champagne and ‘hate’ on the poor. That’s kind of why they exist. Read more »
Posted on October 9th, 2009 | 3 Comments
Tagged: Bible, Cage-fighting, Conservative conference, iran, japan, Lego, salaryman, Sweden, swine flu
Before the recent International Qud’s day demonstrations, the streets of Tehran took a well deserved repose from the post-election riots, veiling itself under the Zen-like euphoria that comes with starving—err fasting—from sunup to sundown during the Islamic holy-month of Ramadan.
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Posted on September 29th, 2009 | 6 Comments
Tagged: eftari, iran, opium, Ramadan
If you’re a young, modern Iranian chick with ambitions beyond cooking and cleaning or protesting for the rest of forever (or until you go to jail or die on the street while someone records your last breath with a cell phone and become a martyr), you might want to consider, contradictory as it seems, an arranged marriage. Marrying a man you’ve never met in a faraway country is actually pretty common for defectors in Iran looking for a way out of the country. It’s one of few ways to leave without being considered a traitor. But watch out for those older Iranian men who have left for countries that aren’t plagued by constant feuds and oppressive religious mullahs, because they’re using arranged marriages as a way to import hot young wives for them to boss around.
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Posted on July 9th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Tagged: bribe, bride, iran, marriage
A distant relative of mine who goes by the name The Omid (yeah, it’s weird, whatever) just sent me these photos from Iran. He’s a photographer and described the current situation as chang, which means “war” in Farsi. When some of my family members hit the election booths on June 12th, the ballot-boxes were already overflowing with fake ballot papers. The Omid’s been going to the protests every day since. Read more »
Posted on June 23rd, 2009 | 18 Comments
Tagged: Allaho Akbar, chang, iran, Mullahs, The Omid, war
Ali Golsar is a kid in Tehran who’s been sending us updates on how it’s going in the city this last week. Weird, in case you’re wondering. Here’s a little incident he told us happened to him a couple days ago that blew us slightly away. He took these pictures too. And no, that’s not his real name. Read more »
Posted on June 22nd, 2009 | 13 Comments
Tagged: Basiji, elections, iran, Riots, Tehran
Iranian VBS producer Pegah Farahmand celebrated her birthday today. After bringing her new puppy up to piss all over our carpeted editorial mezzanine she started slagging off the Great British Happy Birthday song. She reckons the Iranian one is better. And she’s right!
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Posted on May 21st, 2009 | No Comments
Tagged: birthdays, britian, iran, puppies, singing, songs
