An Arab Woman Blues - Reflections in a sealed bottle...

Americans still pretend they brought Democracy to Iraq. Keep on deluding yourselves folks. Had I been in charge of your Education, I would grant you free PHD’s in Deceit, Duplicity and Denial. And for the most “brilliant” amongst you and there are many – I shall grant you an Honoris Causa in Mediocrity. The 3 D Doctorates and the added M – a bonus from me to you with loving appreciation for your “intellectual” endeavors. There is a theory in botany, that analyses the lifespan of a fungus. It says that fungus (mushroom is a fungus by the way) only thrives in darkness and humidity and is basically fed on excrements. That is the most propitious environment for it. I shall do two things. Expose you to light and ask everyone to stop watering you . As for the excrement part, this I have no direct control over, but am sure, neutralizing the 2 others, darkness and humidity, one would hope that with enough shit up to your eyeballs and a great bout of constipation, you will eventually explode. ...

On the other blog (here) - for those who care and for those who could not care less...

I will let you in on a secret, well it’s not so much of a secret but more of a new fetish, a new obsession I am developing… Just like a hypochondriac, whenever he hears or reads about an illness and its symptoms, he automatically starts imagining them in his body, he checks his pulse, listens to his heart beat, checks his lymph nodes and measures his temperature... I am the same, but my new object, my new fixation is Walls. I am totally obsessed with walls. Every time I pass by one, I stop and study it. I look at its width, height, thickness, the material it is made of... I examine the mass of concrete, the bricks, the stones...Its color, its texture...I check if it is newly built or old... Then I look for cues, hints and signs - any writing on the wall, any graffiti, poster, even the imprints of the mason's spatula - any expression of a human hand that may have touched it. Then I look at the cracks, fissures, holes, gaps, if any - and imagine what lies behind it... Then I survey t...

I vaguely remember the title of this film. It was “Looking for Mr.Goodbar”, starring Diane Keaton, if I recall correctly. Another neurotic, desperate, dependent, insecure, American “woman”, looking for love in all the wrong places... An emotional survival story. I've read a lot of your so-called emotional survival stories... Your dog dies, and you seek emotional survival by either sleeping with the first pretender or you are stuck in therapy for another 5 years. You lose your job and there you go, acting out, fucking around as if there is no tomorrow... You grandparent or parent dies and ditto, you recourse to the same... Your twin towers collapse and ditto again – you have been in therapy ever since. Your therapist is very understanding, after all you pay him/her over 200 dollars an hour and she/he pats you on the back and tells you it’s ok, it’s nothing but a phase of grief...don’t punish yourself, you are just trying to heal... How very touching indeed. You the puritanical, hall...

I doubt you have read or seen the following in your mainstream media, but here goes... Yesterday, the American occupation forces sealed and fortified with more men and guns the "sooooneeeeee" neighborhood of Adhamiya. Do let me know when you people will learn to pronounce correctly. The story goes -- Huge gatherings and demonstrations took place in the Adhamyia ghetto to commemorate. Yes, huge crowds of Iraqis gathered, braving your smelly brave boys and their deadly arsenal to remember the leader and president of Iraq - Saddam Hussein - who turned this country into a jewel in less than 30 years and that you destroyed in less than 5. In the Sayydiyah neighborhood, your smelly brave boys arrested not less than 120 people, for commemorating too. A lot of children and women were part of those arrested. On another hopeful note, rumors circulating in Baghdad say that Al-Maliki was shot hence his urgent transfer to London. Can't confirm it but it is a piece of very good omen fo...

A short post on "Absence" on the other Uncensored blog .

Just heard it now -- seems American occupation troops are on "high alert" tonight and tomorrow and the day after -- just in case "something" takes place in memory of the 30th of December - the day that President Saddam Hussein was lynched in an American- Iranian/Shia-sectarian morbid setting. On another note, an Iraqi delegation will be sent next week to Iran - to ratify "a few clauses" in the Algiers agreement of 1975. What will they do? Add the whole of Basrah to Shatt al-Arab and hand it over to Iran? and give Basrah the official title of an Iranian province ? On yet another note but all related - Muqtada Al-Sadr sent a delegation to Kerbala today to ratify a few "local laws." Kerbala has its own laws it seems... Welcome to the disunited statelets of Iraq.