Ramblings of a Hopeless KhowagaRamblings of a Hopeless KhowagaRandom thoughts and round up of the latest international stupidity. Plus descriptions of my travels to exotic and not so exotic places. Brought to you from Austin, Texas. 
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2008-06-01 07:00:00 Lambda Literary Award Winners 2007 More About: Links , 2008
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2008-05-31 07:00:00 Fighting Same-Sex Policy Seems to Be Uphill Battle Legal challenges to Gov. David A. Paterson?s plan to recognize same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions are likely to come thick and fast. But they face an uphill fight. More About: Links , 2008
Tea break
2008-05-30 21:42:00 photo credit: avlxyz We’ve discussed my predilection for caffeine addiction many times before, which is why I find it somewhat amusing that the latest drink that has sucked me in isn’t caffeinated (which means I can drink it at home in the evening, heh heh … ) I still haven’t managed to get through my photos ... More About: Break
Short ones are always the longest
2008-05-30 04:30:00 I’m talking about work weeks, what else? (Minds up here, kids, out of the gutter.) I’m 3/4 of the way through my first week back in the office, and despite my best efforts, I have actually accomplished a great number of things. The worst part of a business trip is always the paperwork that follows, and ... More About: Home , Short , Longest
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2008-05-29 07:00:00 Think Gas is High? Try Europe - TIME More About: Links , 2008
Meddling kids and that pesky dog
2008-05-28 17:49:00 Like much of the free world this past weekend, I went to see the fourth installment in the Indiana Jones series (and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) in the movie theater, a pastime that I don't engage in much these days given the price of gas and the significant savings represented by renting hit movies the moment they come out on DVD. Ray wanted to have an Indy-thon as a lead up to the movie, but that didn't quite come to fruition. I did finally manage to sit through the entire Temple of Doom installment in one sitting - something I'd never done before -- and even managed to keep my P.C. sensitive, overeducated mouth closed during what were just ridiculously awful orientalist fantasies and negative depictions of the Exotic Other ... OK, I kept my mouth closed during the actual movie. Kate Capshaw did not, unfortunately, and if I never hear her squeal "Oh my gawd!" again it will be too soon. More About: Kids
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2008-05-25 07:00:00 Harira: Moroccan Lentil and Garbanzo Soup Time to start with the 'xperimenting. More About: Links , 2008
Results of the packing experiment
2008-05-24 16:38:00 And now, a few days later than I intended, are the results of the packing experiment that I outlined in my 12 of 12 for May. I just returned from a whirlwind business trip (got home last night) to southern Spain and Morocco during which I would need to dress somewhat formally for meetings, and a ... More About: Results , Experiment , Packing
Visions of Morocco
2008-05-23 00:00:00 I’m back in Madrid for the night, heading home tomorrow. It’s been a heck of a trip - not only have I got to wander around the medinas of Fes and Rabat, but from a work perspective (this being a work trip) it’s come out so much better than I could have hoped. A few photos ... More About: Home , Morocco , Visions
Death Taxi, or, le sepulchre volant
2008-05-19 19:26:00 There are a few things I’ve learned over the course of my travels around the world. Among them is something I’ve fashioned into a bit of a rule: never blog jet lagged. I’m about to break this rule, and you’ll see why I created it shortly. Soon after I wrote my last post, we arrived ... More About: Home , Death , Taxi
Afternoon Train to Meknes
2008-05-19 15:15:00 (note: I wrote this yesterday afternoon.) Currently hurtling across central Morocco on a train bound, eventually, for Meknes. We left Spain this morning. Spain was Spain - I need to eventually spend more than 36 hours in Madrid, because it’s a charming city. I hate doing blow-by-blows of what I did and saw, because it usually involves ... More About: Home , Train , Afternoon
Look, kids, Big Ben!
2008-05-17 17:27:00 When the idea was first floated that we rent a car in Spain, I had many worries. Spain still has one of Europe’s highest auto-fatality rates, and the drivers are notoriously aggressive. There were the narrow, winding streets. Endless roundabouts with the opportunity of getting trapped and never being able to exit, like the hapless Griswold ... More About: Kids , Travel
Planin? (Trainin? and Automobilin?) to Spain
2008-05-14 23:07:00 JFK’s new state-of-the art wireless communication device: A new day over Portugal: Madrid’s Puerta Atocha station: More later, including the results of the packing experiment… More About: Travel , Spain
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2008-05-13 07:00:00 Young Saudis, Vexed and Entranced by Love’s Rules - New York Times Young people in Saudi Arabia may chafe at the rules, even try to evade them, but they can be merciless in their condemnation of those who flout them too brazenly. More About: Links , 2008
12 of 12: May
2008-05-13 03:57:00 It’s time for 12 of 12 again! This is also my first ‘real’ blog post in a while - in times of stress, I tend to post infrequently, and then about stuff that doesn’t have anything to do with me so that I don’t have to relive the stress again. It’s what I do. Anyway, this ...
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2008-05-12 07:00:00 Rockin' the Casbah Next Stop - Stockholm Is More Than Abba’s Town Why We Travel - In Mali, S.U.V.’s and Camels Deliver the Fans The Columbus Dispatch : Jewel of a school Now 30 years old, Columbus Alternative High School has evolved into a point of pride for the district 36 Hours in Seville - New York Times More About: Links , 2008
Update
2008-05-09 14:41:00 After watching the death toll in Myanmar rise over the course of the week, I was relieved to finally hear from my college friend in Yangon this morning: My family is fine and we only had very minor damage to our house. It is all repaired now. I had a little more damage to my businesses but nothing that can’t be fixed given time. However, the devastation is incredible. I have not seen anything like it in my entire life. It is going to take months to get back to the original position. My only regret is for the people who suffered. The land was literally flattened. Our companies are donating what we can and the business community is really mobilizing their effort but as you know, it will not be enough for destruction on this scale. Sadly, the government of Myanmar (formerly Burma), one of the world’s least developed countries, seems determined to pretend that they can handle southeast Asia’s worst natural disaster in years all by themselves and is turning fore... More About: Update
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2008-05-09 07:00:00 Young Video Makers Try to Alter Islam’s Face More About: Links , 2008
Cool Coffedy Goodness
2008-05-08 15:09:00 photo credit: huong-lan I swear I’m really not trying to turn this into the ultimate coffee blog, it’s just sort of working out that way. Last summer, the New York Times ran an article about the virtues of cold-brewed coffee. It seems that the latest in Manhattanite metrosexual snobbery is that brewing coffee the old-fashioned away (i.e., with boiling water) and then icing it down Simply Will Not Do. No, if one wants real iced coffee, one must cold-brew it (I’ve also seen reference to the process as “cold-press”). I found this intriguing. Coffee is coffee, ain’t it? However, always one to hop on what the Manhattan gays are doing, during a trip to IKEA at some point during the fall, I picked up a French press (HüvúdstÃ¥d or somesuch) on über-sÃ¥le (with meatballs!). By that point in the year, however, it was a bit cool in the mornings for me to want coffee iced instead of warm, so the French press sat on the kitchen counter and collect... More About: Cool , Goodness
Still here
2008-05-06 23:01:00 I haven’t blogged much of late. There’s not a lot going on to talk about, and there’s some weird nerve thing going on in my right hand (either one wrist brace is less confusing than two, or everyone I work with saw my post and are now afraid to comment on them), so typing for ... More About: Home
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2008-05-05 07:00:00 Turkish Schools Offer Pakistan a Gentler Vision of Islam More About: Links , 2008
Take Time to Smell the Java
2008-05-01 15:21:00 Yet another friend from the bloggerverse has done the unthinkable: Brian is giving up coffee. (Well, specifically, he’s giving up Starbucks, but that’s his main/only source of coffee at the moment so it pretty much works out the same.) I’ve done this before — at the urging of my boss, who is something of an amateur medical … adviser guy … who had gone on at length (repeatedly) about how drinking caffeine dehydrates you, and it’s much healthier for you to not drink caffeine, yadda yadda yadda. In point of fact, it’s not the caffeine that does the dehydrating - it’s the fact that lots of people get their caffeine in the form of overly sugared iced teas, sodas, and beverages both hot and cold that may contain some sort of coffee product, but are not actually coffee, all of which will dehydrate you. I gave up the stuff and endured massive headaches for a week and a half, and then promptly went to the Middle East on a business tri... More About: Java , Time , Smell
The wit and wisdom of desperate coworkers.
2008-04-29 17:27:00 RamblingKhowaga: Did you see the story about the cute (that’s disgusting-cute) gay couples in the NYT? EvilCoworker: NYT? RamblingKhowaga: New York Times EvilCoworker: no EvilCoworker: I only read picture books RamblingKhowaga: … well, then never mind. EvilCoworker: (saved by my stupidity on that one!) RamblingKhowaga: yeah, it’s 10 pages of gay couples under 30 who got married. EvilCoworker: awww EvilCoworker: that’s cute RamblingKhowaga: and they’re ... More About: Home , Wisdom , Desperate
Denied!
2008-04-28 18:43:00 I was banging out a long blog post when it happened. I accidentally hit the command-A (select all) combination and kept typing. Suddenly, my lengthy post had been reduced to the letter "t". And then it auto saved. No amount of swearing and yelling at the computer ... or hitting command-Z (undo) ... would bring my text back. It's OK. You probably didn't really want to read a long rant about the evils of standardized testing anyway.
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2008-04-27 07:00:00 Where Alaa Al Aswany Is Writing From Young Gay Rites Why would gay men in their 20s rush to the altar? More About: Links , 2008
Short attention span says what?
2008-04-24 15:42:00 I have observed an interesting phenomenon amongst some of the people who work in the same department as me, and I must admit that I find it a little irritating. A couple of years ago, my wrists were hurting in the usual places (for a person who works in an office setting - minds out of the gutter, please). I have "repetitive wrist trauma," which is what most people who claim to have carpal-tunnel syndrome actually have. More About: Weird , Just , Plain , Short , Attention
An Inconvenient Posting
2008-04-23 01:39:00 Well, it’s Earth Day. I’m not a huge fan of the contrived blog post — the kind that always result from some sort of massive e-mail campaign of the “thou shalt blog about the environment today” sort, but it’s the 22nd of April and we have the air conditioning on because it’s so miserable out today. ... More About: Home
Signs of the bygone times
2008-04-22 14:47:00 Now here's something you're not likely to see again in the near (or probably far) future: someone found an Iran Air commercial from the 1970s, right after they started nonstop New York-Tehran flights. It's funny/sad how quickly things change sometimes. More About: Television , Weird , Just , Plain , Signs
In search of the perfect maitai
2008-04-20 17:44:00 I wasn’t such a good blogger this week. Michael IM’ed me at one point to tell me that my blog just wasn’t the same without photos of Hawaii pasted all over it, and I can emphasize. I’ve been trying to get a little more color in these pages, and somehow “work sucks” doesn’t inspire much color. Or commentary. So… Ray’s birthday is coming up next month. I had already promised our friends that we would have a tiki party when we got back from Hawaii, and somehow the tiki party and Ray’s birthday got mixed together, so now we’re having a tiki birthday party for him. Planning it has been remarkably fun because there’s so much tiki party crap out there. (Seriously — there are some hard core tikiphiles out there. Check out konakai.com to see what I mean.) The most important items on the menu for any tiki/Hawaiian themes party, however, are the drinks. You’ve got to have tropical drinks, and the sort... More About: Search , Perfect
Hot Tranny Mess
More articles from this author:2008-04-18 18:41:00 Yeah, as usual, I’m probably the last person in the universe to actually see this, but it’s funny, even if you are a fan of Project Runway. Make it work! More About: Weird , Just , Plain , Mess 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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