the histogram of the bereft
Listen Gazan mothers.
It’s just propaganda.
Indeed
grief can be
photoshopped.
Blood when dry is
CMYK 35 85 100 50
But the blood of
Children is
Always that unsettling sort of red
CMYK 29 100 99 36
red that jokes of life
before it settles to clot.
Rubble piles up easily
with the pattern stamp tool,
layered with custom shapes;
an arm and a leg and some
random unidentifiable tissue for depth.
You could even
layer via cut
and hide
children
in the UN school.
Sweep over the
history brush tool
and back
when beds were safe
are Tahrir, Ikram, Samar, Dunia, and Juhar
scratching the sleep from their eyes.
Edit.
Clear.
Wake up Ayah.
Wake up Ayah.
It’s just propaganda.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10120.shtml
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10112.shtml
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090106/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians
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Speaking ill of the living
December 17, 2009 - 2:18 pm
Tags: Africa, break-in-transmission, eye on mzansi, HIV/AIDS, human rights, manto tshabala-msimang, rantage
Posted in Electric Spaghetti | 7 comments
When journalist Toby Shapshak first broke the news of Tshabalala-Msimang’s death over Twitter, there were very few condolences on the public timeline.
People tend to have long memories when it comes to hundreds of thousands of lives that could have been saved had Tshabalala-Msimang and the rest of the Mbeki-acolytes rolled out antiretrovirals (ARVs) instead of [...]
Roots
August 18, 2009 - 5:44 pm
Tags: family, journal, lest we forget
Posted in Electric Spaghetti | 11 comments
This is daddy and I on a novelty photo badge we got at the Rand Show when I was five-years-old.
You can tell from my chewed-on smile that I wasn’t feeling particularly photogenic that day.
Today, I’m grateful my parents made me sit for this photo. It reminds me of all the things that link me to [...]
Today we remember (free calendar download for January 2009)
January 3, 2009 - 12:45 pm
Tags: calendar desktop wallpaper, desktop wallpaper, free download, human rights, january 2009 calendar, lest we forget, n00b executions, photoshop
Posted in Electric Spaghetti | 8 comments
These n00bly executed desktop wallpapers are free for you to download, use and share. They’ve all been created at a screen resolution of 1280X1024. Drop me a message on saaleha(at)gmail(dot)com if you would like them re-sized to suit your monitor. A black back-grounded version of these wallpapers are available on request.
Right click on the [...]
(the post everyone has done/will do) Some year eh?
December 31, 2008 - 1:12 am
Tags: 1430, 2009, humans don't act like people sometimes, journal, list-more, social-phenom, the ties that bind
Posted in Electric Spaghetti | 6 comments
For sure.
For so many of us.
Newly-married people. N00b-Earthling-rearing people. Single people. Mingling people. Committed relationship people. Constructs-beyond-definition people.
Your 2008 was all about travel, epiphanies, discoveries, major milestones, messing-up, doh!-forehead-smack s, loves, losses, newness, learning, changing, life-getting, brain-using, creating, destroying, beginnings, endings, more opposites and juxtapositions etcetera etcetera.
And then there was, in no particular chronological order; [...]
a south african war story
May 20, 2008 - 7:16 pm
Tags: crime, eye on mzansi, Why God?, xenophobia
Posted in Electric Spaghetti | 22 comments
Two gunmen entered our home tonight. They locked my husband and helper in separate rooms and made off with my husband’s car and his bag containing house keys, store keys and wallet. No one was harmed, and for that no amount of forehead-bruising prostration will ever fully convey my gratitude.
I was delayed at the office; [...]
Light this candle
April 24, 2008 - 1:36 pm
Tags: break-in-transmission, eye on mzansi, lest we forget, Why God?
Posted in Electric Spaghetti | 11 comments
A nine-year old girl was killed after a hit-and-run incident on Jan Smuts Avenue in Johannesburg this morning.The child, on her way to school, was waiting for a taxi when the accident occurred.The only passenger in the minibus said she felt the taxi hit something just before the driver stopped. “He demanded I leave the [...]
passive agression and its practical application
December 3, 2007 - 9:54 am
Tags: journal, one day at 66 de la rey, passive agression and it's practical application, the commune, the voices, Why God?
Posted in Electric Spaghetti | 10 comments
Commune-living fast deflates the bubble of stoicism.
There lived amongst us one who seemed to consume anything that intersected with her marauding path. Some of it hearsay, most of it confirmed testimony; no consumable was safe.
I too had not escaped unscathed. But for many of the incidents, I did not feel the confrontation worth the effort.
Until [...]
more ire (this could be a regular feature)
October 9, 2007 - 7:30 am
Tags: one day at 66 de la rey, the commune, the intermittent ire, Why God?
Posted in Electric Spaghetti | 18 comments
Last night may truly have been the “The Night of Power”, for a pair of black pants that went deep underground about two months ago, suddenly resurfaced in the fresh laundry pile.
A miracle certainly, for repeated questioning of the house-mates drew blank stares reminiscent of Foetal Alcohol Syndrome.
Hence it was with great surprise that I [...]
The Intermittent Ire
October 8, 2007 - 12:09 am
Tags: gripe, the intermittent ire, Why God?, www
Posted in Electric Spaghetti | 3 comments
What is it with fasting muslim people who get a kick out of forwarding emails with pictures of food as attachments under misleading subject headers, to other fasting muslim people?
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Tell me God doesn’t have a sense of humour…
Tell me God doesn’t have a sense of humour…
September 28, 2007 - 6:51 am
Tags: break-in-transmission, eye on mzansi, Why God?
Posted in Electric Spaghetti | 10 comments
… and I’ll direct you to the front pages of South Africa’s major national newspapers to disprove you.
- A warrant for arrest issued for our National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi by National Director of the National Prosecuting Authority Adv Vusi Pikoli (who’s been suspended incidentally). Selebi is the Head of Interpol. Cue canned laughter.
- Our [...]
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January 8, 2009 - 10:26 am
im done saying theres beauty in sadness. but u capture it so well. its beyond sad. its heart wrenching imagery and a story that tells what u said b4: we’re a planet of people who have forgotten to be human. we do. then cut and hide. and life? carries on.
January 8, 2009 - 10:03 am
i don’t know why this post made me cry.
January 7, 2009 - 10:27 pm
Why God?
January 7, 2009 - 9:19 pm
The pictures so generously smattered for the infotainment of a jaded world show terrified children, dead children, bloodied and riddled with the holes of unfortunate circumstance and they horrify, they rob of us of language but this gives it words, conveying the heartlessness of a unjust war.