March 2010

Breakfast at Boykis

March 30, 2010

Mr. B loves Audrey Hepburn.  Has seen every single one of her movies.  He loves her because she’s “the only classy and beautiful actress of the modern era” and has “redefined  what being a woman means.” We were re-watching Breakfast at Tiffany’s today.  I can understand why he likes her.  We have a striking resemblance both in physique and personality.

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Life Goes On.

March 30, 2010

source.  You’ll see where I’m going with this in a minute. It’s so surreal that, in the wake of the hideous, gruesome Metro bombing in Russia, I found out yesterday that I had a new baby cousin, just in time for Passover.  People die, people are born, life goes on.   It’s so crazy to think that when Baby Cousin is 10 years old, I’ll have known him his entire life. Being one of the youngest in our extended family, I’ve ...

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Women in Wonderland

March 28, 2010

source. Warning: Spoilers of the latest Alice in Wonderland are in this post. What’s the last movie you’ve seen where women aren’t objectified or placed into narrow parameters of female stereotypes?   For me, it was Alice in Wonderland, which I saw this weekend with my parents and Mr. B.  Since we are all avid lovers of Lewis Carrol, (especially me, who memorized The Jabberwocky for a high school poetry recitation,) we went to see it.  The actual fleshing out of ...

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Friday Links

March 25, 2010

Source. I have a MASSIVE list of links for you this week.   Something else might be massive this weekend, because Mr. B and I are doing taxes. From le blogs: Happy Ada Lovelace Day! from the Harpies Why Eastern Europeans don’t smile, from ExpatHarem AND, thanks to that, I found a new blog I’ll be following: Scary Azeri! An interview with STFU Parents founder B (includes placentas!) Zolotoy telenok (or, The Little Golden Calf) from Languagehat Now Ruz in Almaty, ...

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Heavy Metal in Baghdad

March 25, 2010

So, I watched this documentary yesterday and realized I have nothing to complain about in life. You never hear about how real Iraqis, especially educated Iraqis, live, trapped, beyond the headlines.  The closest experience I can think of was living in Tel Aviv during the 2006 war with Lebanon and feeling for two months like the sky was going to come down on me any second.   At night, I couldn’t sleep because every car door slamming below my apartment window ...

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