Pedobear fi Misr

We spotted this on our way to the Cairo Book Fair:

They were probably aiming for défilé.

Acute Fail.

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Tambourines and tannoura

March 12, 2010 - 1:34 am

Tags: fi misr, tannoura, tripping, wikala al-ghouri
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To play the castanets, to really play the castanets, one must have a personality that is bigger than all of the room.
It is the same with the zills.
It must be a personality so expansive and enshrouding that it mutes the collective ear-drum drubbing of the mazamir and slows down the systole-diastole of the daff until [...]

25 – fi misr

February 26, 2010 - 12:29 am

Tags: fi misr, i'm still a month behind on my deal, too many words with dashes
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With rain in hair, qahwa in belly and the cardamom still coating the insides of our noses, Cairo soaked through my shoes, socks and skin. Done in by puddle misjudgment, who-knows-what solutes were beginning to squat under my toenails from the dodgy detritus of doings and the leavings of 7000 cats.
After a great dance of [...]

15 – fi misr

February 10, 2010 - 11:34 pm

Tags: fi misr, memoir, tripping, za2eg
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At a masjid fi misri just before maghrib I find jidatee* with her nose in His Signs, while a metronome of bone on bone keeps time with each fatha, each kasra. Those knees creak as much as the scuffed plastic of her chair.
She’s not really my grandmother. I hear only one word out of her [...]

weirdful wednesday

August 19, 2009 - 7:30 pm

Tags: gigging, spaghetti-cam, weekending, wordless wednesday
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Wordless Wednesday (thought I’d kick it spaz spag style)

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ror

August 17, 2009 - 6:38 pm

Tags: eye on mzansi, for lolz, spaghetti-cam
Posted in Electric Spaghetti | 6 comments

China Mall, Main Reef Road, Johannesburg.

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Blotting paper

December 6, 2008 - 11:11 pm

Tags: favourite things, i heart stuff, indulge-me-i'm-getting-old, nauseatalgia, notebooks, spaghetti-cam, too many words with dashes, writing
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Its brand story is an inspired conception; a narrative crafted to knead and unknot that part of the consumer’s brain responsible for decision-making.
So as someone who once studied that kind of thing to pass a few exams, I know that Hemingway and Picasso didn’t actually soak up their genius-vomit with the same oilskin-bound acid-free papers [...]

Don’t think I’ve seen this one on HijabStyle

November 11, 2008 - 1:03 pm

Tags: 2010 Soccer World Cup, eye on mzansi, for lolz, spaghetti-cam
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Hola, hola, hola, kicking it for Mzansi Apa!

(Get yours at Al-Hidaayah (sp?), Mint Road, Fordsburg, JHB)

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where the smoke indeed thunders (pending wordy words)

December 1, 2007 - 7:28 am

Tags: on the job, spaghetti-cam, tripping, victoria falls, zambezi
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Mosi oa Tunya

Press Pause and hold.

The Mighty Zambezi at her most tender.

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testosterone soap opera

September 8, 2007 - 11:49 pm

Tags: break-in-transmission, gigging, journal, spaghetti-cam, summerslam, weekending, wwe
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It was that of every great narrative, there-in the dichotomies of human experience; good and evil, light and dark, adversity and triumph.

Stories where they threaded; protagonists on the precipice, the victorious who rise from the ashes of their seeming defeat, the underdog, the powerful and arrogant, brothers in arms.
All of whom were smacked by those [...]