If I had to sum it up in one sentence: Morocco, You’ve been wonderful to me. There, I did it. I summarized my Peace Corps service in one sentence. End. Of. Blog. Post. Really though, it is impossible to sum up in one sentence. In one week, and around 8 hours, I officially will be [...]
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Not listening to anything… So for the past two years I have done my best to keep you all (my lovely readers) informed of my goings on and happenings in Morocco… and beyond. Unfortunately, my streak has pretty much ended, due to some technical difficulties. Shortly after I came back from India, I was using [...]
Listening to: Royksopp – The Understanding *This will likely be the shortest post on India, as I only spent 3 days in Goa. Delhi was a huge, busy, packed, polluted place. The plan was for my two friends and I to travel south to the tropical beaches of Goa. SO we met up at the [...]
Listening to: House Music Before I continue to spout on about my trip to India, I want to come back to my village here. Recently, we have had cold weather, bitter cold for this region really. The temperature has been down to around -8 centigrade, so I think that is 10-15 degrees Fahrenheit. Regardless, it [...]
Listening to: Moby… this time courtesy of Dan, my other dapper sitemate. This is the first post in hopefully a handful regarding India. I hope when actually describing India to say few words, but post pictures instead. So this part will likely be the lengthiest… this was also written while having a boring layover in [...]
Listening to: Random Electronica courtesy of Annemarie, my dapper sitemate. Hello my lovely readers, I have missed you. Hopefully it is likewise on your end. It is right?!?!? “Where have I been?” you ask. I went to a place called India. It was a fantastic journey and experience, and I was able to see a [...]
Listening to: Joy Division (certainly a top 10 band for me.) As I have told you, my precious readers (broken record style,) winter can be a real pain for me. Lately though, we have had a much welcomed respite from the cold, and temperatures are up, and precipitation is low. This equation, as you might [...]
Listening to: Elvis Costello – My Aim is True (great album!); Ellie Goulding – Bright Lights (poppy and electronicish) Very often, things come in and out of our lives. Sometimes, we don’t really have the chance to tell them how we feel, or how much we care about them. Sometimes, they don’t really understand what [...]
Let me start this post with a quote from one of my favorite holiday shows. Charlie Brown: Holidays always depress me. Sally Brown: I know what you mean. I went down to buy a turkey tree and all they have are things for Christmas. Charlie Brown: For Christmas? Already? -A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving-1973 To those [...]
The tiny village, located in a valley, almost surrounded entirely on three sides of the mountain, is named aptly. While I most certainly cannot give you this village name, just know it means “hidden from view”… or something like that. (Interpretation can likely come up with a number of similar phrases.) The streets are nearly [...]
Well my dear readers, I was reading some poetry, as I sometimes do, by one of my favs, Robert Frost. He has a knack for the fall and winter seasons. As I read more and more of his mental wanderings, I feel as if Frost has an extreme love/hate relationship with fall and winter. At [...]
Listening to: Sigur Ros – ( ) 2002 … the parentheses are the album title. Icelandic Band are one of my favs. *This post contains graphic descriptive writing, and may not be suitable for those with weak stomachs, or who cannot take descriptive opinion and thoughts about animal killings.* Today, when I was texting a [...]
Listening to: The Secret Sisters – Self Titled album (2010) After writing the title out, I realize that on quick glance some who are not familiar with the game “Oregon Trail” may be caught off guard, think I have some ghastly illness, or am just screwing around. My apologies. If you clicked inadvertently hoping to [...]
Listening to: Sweater Weather – Now, Everyone Can Sing When I looked up the date, I realize my dear readers that it has been over a month!!! WOW. It has been fairly busy, and I have been a mix of out of site for work and vacation, in site working on projects, and just hanging [...]
Do you remember that crazy late 80′s Bill Cosby gig called “Picture Pages” where he has some magic pen that made these sounds, and he drew a bunch of pictures… I think. I barely remember it, but can completely remember the opening song. If you can’t, or don’t know it. Here is a youtube link… [...]
Listening to: The National – White Sessions (Live album) Really, before I rattled off into randomness, the point of the blog post initially was to discuss my current situation, and update you (all my lovely readers) about what has been going on here in my world. WHAT I AM SAYING IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART [...]
William Shakespeare was a good writer. Pretty influential, and his little theatrics and phrases have penetrated the modern English language and culture for quite the while. He was a “Titan” of his words, and he was certainly the best smooth talker out there. We all can probably rattle off a handful of Shakespeare’s works. But, [...]
Listening to: John Legend and the Roots – Wake Up! (2010) – A nice mix of funk, soul, blues… and everything nasty like that. There I was, sitting there on my roof, admiring the clear night, sky full of stars, a few clouds in the eastern horizon, and a fresh moon rising to the southeast. [...]
Listening to: Elf Power; Album: Self Titled ; Year: 2010 Let me state this for the record. I have never been to a family reunion. (Unless you consider marriages and funerals family reunions of sort, which in a way, they are adequate places for reuniting, and celebrations of family.) If I were to go to [...]
Growing up, I was into video games from an early age. My brother, 7 years older than me roughly, got a Nintendo for some occasion (trying hard to remember, but when you are 6 or 7 those memories are blurs.) Regardless, I am almost certain this Nintendo was not for me. If it was, the [...]
Listening to: Sara Jackson Holman – When you dream (Kind of like a Feist and Norah Jones) Essentially, I spend ample time (outside of Ramadan) at a specific cafe in town, hanging out, shooting the proverbial S%&# and just kicking it (by kicking it I mean, trying to understand what is being discussed.) I really [...]
Saunter (v) – To walk or stroll; walk at a leisurely pace Think of this post as a slow semi-sedentary stream, braided and wandering through the wooded wonderland of oaks and ceders, whispering to the animals on it’s way to the inevitable sea. I will likely post (hopefully I keep to this) a number of [...]
Let me start by saying this post might be slightly controversial. Not in the way that I have been controversial before (calling out corruption in my country and even village,) but potentially controversial in the eyes of many of my fellow Americans. I hope that you not only read this post, that you distribute it [...]
Where the heck did I go? I posted 3 weeks ago if my maths do me correct. Time flew by. I have no explanation. Well, except that I have not had a whole lot to post about. I could have titled this post any number of things: - The Dog Days of Summer (Cliche theme) [...]
Every four years, the most popular sporting event in the world crowns a World Champion. To most of my fellow readers, whom are American, this would be Soccer, and the World Cup. To everyone else, it is football. 32 teams, representing 6 continents (I wish I could say Antarctica had a team!,) gather in one [...]
Listening to: Sia – We Are Born (Nice new album, give it a whirl) Tokyo Police Club – A Lesson in Crime EP (old classic in my book) A fantastic thing happened roughly 234 years ago. A number of guys (over a period of time) signed a little piece of paper, declaring their independence, and [...]
Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world. – Ada Louise Huxtable Listening to: Ratatat – LP4 (Highly Recommended [...]
“Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.” - Al Capone (1899-1947) – Famous Mobster, Bootlegger, Entrepreneur (yes, he was.) Capitalism really sucks sometimes. That’s right, I said it. Hold it against me, sit me down and try to convince me otherwise. Ask me the question of “If not capitalism, then what?… socialism… communism?” [...]
A poem I just wrote for you: My Little Kitty Peace Corps service passing by Its hard to see time fly But I look at you, my little friend Covered in Orange, white, Black, and Gray blend I talk to you, and your tail goes up. I leave you, and you rip up my toilet [...]
I stood on my doorway and looked outside today. The winds whipped up in the morning, which certainly meant that there was a change in the weather. The wind led to clouds and led to the threat of rain. So far it hasn’t rained. During this perusing my of my world, I looked at my [...]
A bit of time back, I was completely enamored and engaged in one of my favorite things… watching football at the cafe. (Note to my precious readers that I am certainly talking of soccer.) It was the second leg of the Inter Milan -Barcelona Champion’s League semi-final. This may not mean a gosh freaking darn [...]
Raindrops, some as big as peas, pound the roof of my mud house. Streaks of lightning protrude at seemingly regular intervals, followed by loud rolls of thunder. I feel like I am in the middle of the clouds. I mean, I’m close though right? Standing at the door and smelling the ozone from the lightning [...]
If you were not yet aware, this year, 2010, marks the 40th anniversary of the first Earth Day. SO, happy celebrations for you about the earth. Tomorrow, April 22nd, is Earth Day in actuality. So you should do your part and help to protect the Earth, or just do ONE simple act to make you [...]
Recently, while riding a bus back from Rabat, a number of ridiculous/humorous things took place. These things, while many of them happening everyday, inspired me to write down a list of ways that Morocco is like the Wild West. I have never been to the Wild West, except via western movies and shows. I am [...]
David Bowie Said the above. Much love to that man and his lovely music.
I have so much to write about today, and I am going to get back to my series of posts about Amazigh Resistance in a day or so…
In my village right now:
- Busy Souq Sundays
- Thunderstormed Afternoons
- Dust Blowing
- Puffy Clouds
- Non-Cold [...]
*This is the second post in a multi-post series titled “The Amazigh Resistance”*
I have been told I look like an ancient Amazigh warrior (actually the words ” Old Berber”) were used to describe this, but when probed I figured out what he meant. This was during the era of my service where I looked like [...]
Sitting in a room in a Dar Chebab (youth center), I was working on an environmental education lesson with a colleague of mine for his class later in the day. The director was coming and going, doing “director” type things, whatever that means.
The room was warm, the sun was shining in… it was in fact, [...]
Blogging to: Butterfly Bones – ‘Pretty Fellings” EP … CAT SLEEPING!
In the midst of blogging about my cat, I realized I had a topic I wanted to talk about at some point. Certainly I will go more in depth later.
For those of you out there that did not know, today was International Women’s day. Women’s [...]
Then get out of the kitchen!!!
This post and quote is dedicated to my cat, Penelope… pictured here.
Blogging to: Gorillaz – Plastic Beach (fantastic album!) and my cat howling. They make wondrous music together.
Last night I got little sleep. This is for two reasons… only ONE of which is really my fault. I was looking at [...]
(After a winter snow in my village.)
Blogging to: Javelin – No Mas
Oh rainy day, sometimes you are a good thing…
After a week of absolutely gorgeous unseasonably warm weather, we seem to have come back to normal temperature-wise. I am taking advantage of the rainy day to reflect upon the past year of being in Morocco. [...]
Currently Listening to at this moment: Field Music (Album “Measures” from 2010)
Currently Reading: Murakami “Pinball 1973″ and Howard Zinn’s “Peoples History of the United States of America”
The N.W Ayer admen nailed it completely when they decided that Morton Salt should use that phrase as a marketing slogan. To give you the origin, salt had a [...]
“Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.” – Karl Kraus (Austrian Writer and Journalist)
Oh boy!… (I think maybe this was a mistake). I decided to kick off my new blog my tackling head-on one of the most serious [...]
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