Posted in Digory Kirke, Serious A** Kicking, Sidewalk Lyrics on May 20th, 2011 4 Comments »
“Game of Thrones” is a new HBO series airing on Sundays (whooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaa, 52 hours to go!!!) A medieval fantasy drama based on George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice & Fire. The story is set in the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, where “summers span decades and winters can last a lifetime” and chronicles the [...]
Posted in Gestapo, Heroes, Islamic Nazis of Iran, Letters, Serious A** Kicking, Translation on Aug 21st, 2010 14 Comments »
I have written of Mohammad Nourizad before. He was once again taken to prison (“called” to go to prison, as is customary these days), for writing a sixth, and according to him, final, letter to the leader. Here I have translated an interview he did before heading to Evin. This interview was published on his [...]
Posted in People with brains, S-election, Serious A** Kicking, Sidewalk Lyrics on Aug 6th, 2010 15 Comments »
Long before the June 2009 Selection, at the time when reformist papers were being shut down faster than you can say “Khamenei” one after the other, there was always a discussion amongst reformist ranks of the need for the opposition to have its own indepedent TV channel and its own media outlet far from the reach of the hardliners. Karoubi often [...]
Posted in Dictateur Sanguinaire, LMAO, Prince John, Serious A** Kicking on Jul 15th, 2010 6 Comments »
Welcome to the “Followers of the Leader” Social Networking Site Looks like his excellency the octopus was on to something! Tabnak [the site affiliated with "pragmatic conservative" and presidential nominee Mohsen Rezaie] reports that the first “social networking site dedicated to the lovers of the supreme leader” has been launched. You can check it out here (the [...]
Posted in Dictateur Sanguinaire, Letters, Prince John, Serious A** Kicking, Translation on Apr 21st, 2010 6 Comments »
Mohammad Nourizad is a writer, producer and journalist. He began his work for IRIB with the late Morteza Avini’s Revayateh Fath [Tales of Resistance] – a documentary series on the Iran-Iraq war. Prior to the election, he wrote for the hardline newspaper Keyhan, but what made him a household name was his support of the [...]
Posted in Heroes, Serious A** Kicking on Apr 1st, 2010 No Comments »
Azar Mansouri is the political director of the Mosharekat [Participation Front] party and she is currently home, on leave from prison for the new year. Norouz [the online magazine] features some of the artwork she’s completed while in prison, using tissue and toothpaste boxes. The two worry beads at the bottom were made with straw [...]
Posted in Heroes, S-election, Serious A** Kicking, Sidewalk Lyrics on Mar 31st, 2010 12 Comments »
I voted for Khatami in 2001 … I thought he was too soft, flimsy and decrepit … I thought I had no “choice”. I voted for Mir Hossein Mousavi with reserve, constantly remembering that he was prime minister during one of the darkest times in our modern history, with the stories of the executions of [...]
Posted in Heroes, People with brains, Serious A** Kicking on Mar 30th, 2010 5 Comments »
Amir Sadeqi from the wonderful photo blog Tehran Live is out of prison … and back to blogging and taking amazing photographs. I know it happens over and over again, but still, each and every time, I sit in simple awe of how fast our journalists, photographers, artists, activists, writers, etc … go back to [...]
Posted in Galadriel, Norouz, Serious A** Kicking on Mar 18th, 2010 10 Comments »
2006 – Zahra Rahnavard stands before a painting in her exhibition. ————————————— I was always uncomfortable with the Zahra Rahnavard/Michelle Obama comparisons that were prevalent during campaign season. I found them quite derogatory and belittling of Rahnavard, as I find the position of “first lady” quite an archaic institution all together. I don’t see what [...]
Posted in Letters, People with brains, Serious A** Kicking on Jan 21st, 2010 1 Comment »
Farrokh Negahdar is one of my favorite Iranian commentators. Not only is he incredibly good looking and well-groomed , his analysis is always refreshing. Having spent the last 30 years in exile, he remains a rare commodity: he has not lost touch with many of the realities in Iran and that always sieves through his [...]
Posted in Letters, People with brains, Serious A** Kicking on Jan 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Mehdi Jami is a renowned Iranian journalist, photographer, filmmaker and writer who runs the very popular weblog, Sibestaan. From 2006 to 2008 he was the director of the Amsterdam-based Persian-language Radio Zamaneh which was one of the first Persian media outlets which attempted to capture reports by citizen journalists, and under his watch, the radio [...]
Posted in Letters, People with brains, Serious A** Kicking on Jan 21st, 2010 No Comments »
As I mentioned before, Mousavi’s 17th statement made quite a stir when it was released after the events of Ashura. Unlike any of the previous statements he released. It was spoken about everywhere, on the streets, at the grocery stores, and in intellectual circles both inside and outside Iran. Was Mousavi retreating? Did he sound [...]
Posted in Islamic Nazis of Iran, Serious A** Kicking on Nov 4th, 2009 5 Comments »
UPDATE: they now redirect rajanews to farcenews. ———————————— RajaNews is a website dedicated to die hard Ahmadinejad supporters (it’s supposed to be a “news agency” but really, Brad Pitt fan sites are more respectable than this shithole.) He’s free to have websites dedicated to worshiping his chivalry and eloquence of course. The problem is that [...]
Posted in Alfred Pennyworth, Heroes, Serious A** Kicking on Nov 1st, 2009 No Comments »
Who kicked ass! Karoubi speaks again He was speaking to a group of students with the Office of Strengthening Unity [Tahkim Vahdat] “We believe that in the course of the election, the votes were rationed. The officials are doing their best to convince people that Mr. Ahmadinejad’s quota was 25 million votes. And from [...]
Posted in Alfred Pennyworth, Serious A** Kicking, Turbans and Toga on Oct 28th, 2009 4 Comments »
You probably hate me for saying it, but I don’t care. Although you are probably sick of clerics, while the IRI is up and running, I would love to have Abdullah Nouri as a president. Aside from Rowhani who is my IRI heartthrob, Abdullah Nouri is my next favorite man in the establishment. I’ve always [...]
Posted in F*ck Big Media, Serious A** Kicking, Sherlock Holmes on Oct 9th, 2009 9 Comments »
I’m bringing this post back up because I’ve added new things at the bottom. I have some good news and some bad news. I’ll start with the good news. Remember a while ago I wrote about the need for a media outlet that belongs to the opposition in Iran? A few days after that my [...]
Posted in Generation-Go-Fuck-Yourself, Serious A** Kicking, Sidewalk Lyrics on Oct 8th, 2009 11 Comments »
This past week, the annual “Police Festival” was held in Tehran. What is interesting and which was highlighted by AyandehNews was the male/female interaction (i.e., a** kicking!). For a long time, “woman officer” only meant Fatemeh Komando [Fatemeh the Commando] which was a title given to females who harassed other females in the streets for [...]