saaleha
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Tambourines and tannoura
March 12, 2010 - 1:34 am
Tags: fi misr, tannoura, tripping, wikala al-ghouri
Posted in Electric Spaghetti | 2 comments
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 [...]
The year of doing what I can when I can
March 10, 2010 - 12:41 am
Posted in Electric Spaghetti | 4 comments
Promises. I have some trouble with them.
But never the ones I make to children. I never squinch on a promise I make to anyone under the age of ten. To flint that innocent expectancy and to then just snuff it with fake-ass assurances or forgetfulness, has all the cruel of setting a kitten’s tail on [...]
29 – pupil dilation
March 2, 2010 - 11:31 pm
Tags: hisa hilal, million's poet, remeya, the year of thinking recklessly
Posted in Electric Spaghetti | No comments
and right out of her mouth
flew an eagle
soaring and swooping.
What a bird!
Unlike anything
I’d seen or heard.
Oh, but I heard
and it didn’t sound
oppressed to me.
–
(Of course, if I understood more than one-seventieth of what she was saying, I’d be able to provide a fleshier commentary. But, g’damn, her voice is impressive.)
28 – completion made manifest
March 2, 2010 - 9:19 pm
Tags: completion made manifest, sg33k, the year of thinking recklessly, the zephyr and i
Posted in The Zephyr and I | 4 comments
He butters my bread on both sides.
Just when I believed
with all of me
that I could never,
ever, ever,
ever,
even
possibly,
in one
billion lifetimes,
or two,
or three,
love a
millimetre more,
he goes
and makes
the perfect
chicken and
mayonnaise
sandwich.
The Secret Adversary
February 28, 2010 - 11:20 pm
Tags: book covers, n00b executions, photoshop
Posted in Electric Spaghetti, featured | No comments
I’m rather fond of a good whodunit and for lack of a better descriptor, I think Christie is charming.
Having read installments of this title via dailylit.com, I wanted to take a bash at designing* a cover for it. I took my cue from protagonist Prudence Crowley’s nickname ‘Tuppence’.
Graphic source: Karen Roe
*Don’t judge me by this [...]
