October 26, 2008
One of the main reasons I started this blog was to talk about my trip through Kuwait, Jordan, the West Bank (Palestine) and Israel [for the record, I'm still not done typing everything up and publishing it]. Lately, though, the blog has taken a deep dive into the tepid cesspool of crass political commentary. Funny how priorities change like that…I’m still planning on finishing my writeup of the trip. Not in the least because, hey, you gotta come up from the depths of the tepid cesspool for a breath of air every now and then (real life notwithstanding). I also owe FoEME (Jordan) my notes from our conversations and brainstorming at the ‘Amman office.
However, the title of the blog itself hints at a different purpose. When I started this blog, I also promised myself that I would use it as an outlet for my poetry. That’s been a difficult promise to fulfill. Read the rest of this entry »
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August 11, 2008
The category “journal and notes — Middle East” contains journal entries and notes from my middle east trip from June through July 2008, in chronological order. The first entry, below, is a brief history and overview of the original purpose of the trip, including why the hell I was in the region in the first place. Names may or may not have been changed to protect the innocent, the guilty, and when all else fails, the naive (mostly me…).
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“just thinkin’ out loud…”
October 26, 2008One of the main reasons I started this blog was to talk about my trip through Kuwait, Jordan, the West Bank (Palestine) and Israel [for the record, I'm still not done typing everything up and publishing it]. Lately, though, the blog has taken a deep dive into the tepid cesspool of crass political commentary. Funny how priorities change like that…I’m still planning on finishing my writeup of the trip. Not in the least because, hey, you gotta come up from the depths of the tepid cesspool for a breath of air every now and then (real life notwithstanding). I also owe FoEME (Jordan) my notes from our conversations and brainstorming at the ‘Amman office.
However, the title of the blog itself hints at a different purpose. When I started this blog, I also promised myself that I would use it as an outlet for my poetry. That’s been a difficult promise to fulfill. Read the rest of this entry »