Posted in Armageddon, Democrafascism, Generation-Go-Fuck-Yourself, Today is a good day to die on Nov 19th, 2012 2 Comments »
What would it feel like to be the world’s punching bag? Come on, give it a try, give it a go, punch all you like, hurt all you want, cut all you wish, punch as hard as ya feel like it … you know why? Because the world … just won’t give a fucking DAMN!!!! [...]
Posted in Generation-Go-Fuck-Yourself, Sidewalk Lyrics on Feb 15th, 2012 24 Comments »
A hint of fear … sprinkled with some magic fairy dust: I have to admit, that without exception, that is my first gut reaction to entering Iran and nearing passport check. Obviously, with the thousands and thousands of political prisoners they are torturing already, no one is going to come after a twirpy blogger with [...]
Posted in Generation-Go-Fuck-Yourself, Sidewalk Lyrics on Nov 13th, 2011 3 Comments »
I don’t know who Ahmad Rezaie was. Not sure I would have liked him if I did know who he was. I’m going to ignore little bits and snippets I’ve found and read about him (like his alleged anti-IRI statements, etc), and just imagine possible scenarios for a while … In my school days, I met [...]
Posted in Democrafascism, Generation-Go-Fuck-Yourself, Today is a good day to die on Oct 6th, 2011 5 Comments »
The most exciting part of being introduced to George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series (aside from the books being ridiculously engaging and well written) is being able to dwell on politics, religion and governance on such a grand, versatile scale. Watching the cat fights, dog fights and Russian roulette from [...]
Posted in Generation-Go-Fuck-Yourself, Iranian Masquerade Ball 2009, Islamic Nazis of Iran, Today is a good day to die on Jun 14th, 2011 2 Comments »
I ask myself this question every year, right about now, from a month before … maybe up until a month later, maybe two, or three or four … until the days join one another in a constant rotating loop and I can’t really tell which June 12th it is and which one is coming. But [...]
Posted in Democrafascism, Generation-Go-Fuck-Yourself, Nincompoops on May 26th, 2011 19 Comments »
For a while last week, Iranian Blogistan, facebook, etc was set ablaze with this particular video of a former madam now upgraded to some pretty fancy shmancy position inside foreign policy circles: Iranian students in the US will finally have multiple entry visas, like the rest of humanity! Halleluja! The Iranians shouted out with glee. [...]
Posted in Generation-Go-Fuck-Yourself, Iranian Rose Garden, Memories on Apr 19th, 2011 10 Comments »
I always envied the white ones. So light … so free. The pale, white creatures standing in front of me at the check-in line, with the miniature, trim suitcases; with the sleek hand luggage the size of the backpack I carried when I was 5. Somehow, if the skin color went just a shade beyond [...]
Posted in Generation-Go-Fuck-Yourself, Memories, Sidewalk Lyrics, The Illusionist on Feb 24th, 2011 11 Comments »
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times … it was growing up in the Islamic Republic of Iran, in the late 90s and early 2000. Not a day goes by without me thinking: “Ped, what gives? what the fuck happened?” The Islamic Republic was never known to be the kindest, [...]
Posted in Generation-Go-Fuck-Yourself, Islamic Nazis of Iran, Revolution! on Feb 17th, 2011 20 Comments »
I was watching this documentary on Al Jazeera’s People & Power about a group of Egyptian activists who have been preparing for nonviolent protest months before the February revolution: Of course, I couldn’t help but compare their situation to Iran, when actions of this sort would never be possible. (Ahmed would have been imprisoned and [...]
Posted in Generation-Go-Fuck-Yourself, Iranian Masquerade Ball 2009, Islamic Nazis of Iran on Feb 15th, 2011 10 Comments »
I’ve heard all my life: “we can’t take any more of this, it’s been 20 years!” … “25 years!” … “30 years!” … And now, 32. Perhaps it is the devoutly cynic in me, but I fear that the worse is yet to come. This isn’t a note on the perils and predicaments of political [...]
Posted in Democrafascism, Generation-Go-Fuck-Yourself, Iran-Iraq War, Iranian Rose Garden on Feb 11th, 2011 2 Comments »
They may call us “children of the revolution”, but we are really children of war. I was born years after the revolution, but the war is what I remember well. I still remember those air raid sirens so well. As does anyone who lived those days and nights. So does this beautiful animation by Maryam [...]
Posted in Generation-Go-Fuck-Yourself, Islamic Nazis of Iran, It's five minutes to midnight, Khordaad88 on Jan 28th, 2011 5 Comments »
Like many of you, I have been watching, reading and devouring anything Tunisian/Egyptian/Palestine/Middle Eastern in the past few days. I can’t speak for all Iranians, I can only speak for myself: I don’t mean to compare anything with anything case by case. I don’t mean to compare the situation in Cairo right now to that [...]
Posted in Generation-Go-Fuck-Yourself, Sidewalk Lyrics on Aug 23rd, 2010 18 Comments »
These days, when I talk to my friends in Iran, hardly anyone, even the most politically active, talks about politics anymore. I’m certainly not claiming that my friends are a representative of the entire Iranian population – they certainly are not. But it was at first somehow disappointing to hear them disregard the latest political news the way they [...]
Posted in Democrafascism, Generation-Go-Fuck-Yourself, Islamic Nazis of Iran, Nincompoops on Jul 29th, 2010 4 Comments »
Long ago, before I was a student, there was a horror story called the TOEFL for every Iranian student wishing to make their way abroad (United States). Before they got their admission, before they made that famed horror trip to the Cypriot or Turkish American embassies for visa, they had to make another trip abroad, to take [...]
Posted in Generation-Go-Fuck-Yourself, Kids, Sidewalk Lyrics on May 14th, 2010 5 Comments »
Sorry for being so remiss in posts lately … as June 12th approaches, I feel an overwhelming sense of grief and longing … all over again. For a while I thought that things were back to normal ……… the chaotic normalcy we are used to as Iranians. But with the executions, with the fast approaching [...]
Posted in Generation-Go-Fuck-Yourself, LMAO, Nincompoops, pissed off on Apr 23rd, 2010 11 Comments »
Entrance to the school of engineering at the University of Tehran. ———————————————– You may all know of boobquake by now (which has 100,000 participants on facebook), but not many have heard of Fanni Pleasure Island. ٍEarlier in the week, the students at the School of Engineering at the University of Tehran were confronted with a [...]
Posted in F*ck Big Media, Generation-Go-Fuck-Yourself, Interview, Iran-Iraq War, IRIB, Nincompoops on Apr 19th, 2010 6 Comments »
“National Media” ————————————- Even though this clip may be considered slapstick comedy, I was rather intrigued by it. Especially because I had recently seen this: [h/t Neo-Resitance] The first clip is a piece on IRIB2 – about Iran’s “cyber army” and how, since some blogs and the internet have been used towards “soft warfare” to [...]