Liquid Lavaashak!

Anybody remember those modest stands in “Darake” and “Darband” where you could buy “Zoghaal akhte”, “Lavaashak” and other stuffs, around which dozens of fly’s were performing their rituals?
Do you remember those dirty old men who were selling disgusting packs of “Aalooche” in the streets, near the school?

I clearly remember the feeling. It was a mixture of joy and guilt. Guilt from the fact that you were absolutely sure you were having an extra-strength bacteria injection, something as filthy as it can be, and joy from the delicious taste, mix with the sense of doing something wrong, particularly since it was blatantly against those annoying, dead-boring TV and school’s preaches!

Recently, I came across something quite nostalgic. 100% pure blackcurrant juice and 100% pure cranberry juice, first cold pressing, or as I like to call them “Liquid Lavaashak”!

For the first time, I’m experiencing the same sense of jubilation but without the guilt part, and guess what, it’s damn good. In fact, the experience to me is the closest one to orgasm, without the help of a woman (or myself!).

I drink my Blackcurrant juice to “Darakeh”…One of a few places, I deeply miss.

If you ever, in any period of your life have thought your job might be crappy, well…think again!

This is by far, the best interactive animation I’ve seen on the net. Almost feels like you’re reading a novel by Borges, or Marquez!

A headline and a bitter memory

After three weeks of mass demonstrations in Nepal’s capital, Katmandu, King “Gyanendra” finally gave up to the protests, orchestrated by seven opposition parties, by accepting the parliament to be reinstated and a new constitution to be written. A brave political gesture that would put an end to his ruling power but would enable him to continue, at least, as a ceremonial monarch and save Nepal from drowning into a total chaos.

Although what is going on in a small and geopolitically rather unimportant country, such as Nepal, has nothing to do with us, but I can’t stop comparing the situation with what happened in Iran almost three decades ago, when our king did not yield to people’s legitimate demands for freedom, liberty and democracy until it was too late.

Although I’m sure that a considerable number of people who still so genuinely believe in conspiracy theory, would argue that what happened in Iran was simply predestined and therefore inevitable, but for someone like myself who considers these kinds of inevitabilities, just some flimsy excuses for our mistakes and misjudgments, what remains is a deep sense of regret. Regret about a promising uprising that shouldn’t have ended up in a disastrous revolution only if “Shah” was a better poker player! Good enough, not to bet his and our future to call a bluff, that turned out to be, not a bluff at all!

Glorious Murphy’s Law

If anything can go wrong, it definitively will!

Quote of the day

If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid indeed!

Time to be ashamed!

The senseless slaughter of 230,000 seal pups began this week off the coast of Newfoundland.

Please take part in protesting against this cruel, barbaric act. That’s the least we can do.



This time of the year is the ONLY period that the separation of Quebec makes sense to me. It feels less disturbing, not be Canadian when the seal hunt begins!

Australian-born sculptor Ron Mueck during an exhibition at the Cartier Foundation for contemporary art in Paris. It’s just amazing

Iran at the Peking Olympics

Absolutely no comment!

Manon’s Poetic journey

As I was doing my daily lunchtime news browsing today, I came across an unusual story of “Manon Ossevoort”, a young beautiful Dutch lady who is crossing the world with her green tractor, in a breathtaking journey began in Amsterdam. After passing through Belgium, France, Italy, Balkans, and north Africa, she’s now heading toward cape town in South Africa and eventually Cape of Good Hope, where she’s supposed to hitch a ride to Antarctica and her final destination, South Pole.
In this amazing adventure, she collects the dreams of every individual she meets on little scarps of paper. Dreams will accompany her to the end of the world (as she says) where they will be somehow magically fulfilled.

I have to admit that the sophisticated idea and the extraordinary courage and determination behind this exquisitely simple childish “Petit-Prince-type” dream was so poetic that I couldn’t stop my tears from falling.

The joyous moment was completed as I received an E-mail from my adorable friend “Bahareh” who has just recently left her well-paid job in Montreal to join “Engineers without border” in Burkina Faso, a country which reminds me of my childhood neighbor and best friend and elementary school class mate, “Behzad” who also left his town, Chicago, to teach Mathematics to unprivileged children there, in Burkina Faso.

However, this state of ecstasy was soon replaced with a stark sense of uselessness due to an inevitable comparison between what these people are doing with their lives and my valuable contribution to humanity!

Being unable to work on little extravagant details of some billionaire’s private jet, at least for couple of hours, was, I think, my conscience’s pathetic attempt to deal with the sense of guilt and shame that I was going through.

I hope the combination of “Not everybody should go to Africa to be useful for humanity” mantra and watching extremely gorgeous and talented “Sophie Milman” live in Spectrum tonight, would make me feel better.

For God’s sake, those poor billionaires truly need their glorious private jets and they need them on time, right?!

This beautiful American lady singing Iranian folklore songs with a cute accent

A point

Have you noticed that so far, the biggest trouble that our gorgeous! president has created for the western countries, is the excruciating pain, almost all the politicians, reporters and anchors go through every time they want to pronounce his name?

Listen to this…it’s one of the most fair and non-judgemntal analysis on Iran

A great day for our country!

This is the day my friends!
We finally got what we were fighting for, the “Right” of enrichment of uranium in our own soil! The one and only remaining right in the list of our unfulfilled rights such as freedom, social justice, free speech, privacy, dignity and so on.

I really can not stop admiring the regime for having such an extraordinary control over public’s opinion so they can persuade the majority to almost unanimously back up one of the most economically-catastrophic, politically-suicidal and environmentally-disastrous plan in our recent history.

And also my deep admiration to people of Iran whose relentless efforts to protect their brain cells, almost as a national heritage, from any sort damage caused by over-using, finally paid off in this glorious day!


Well...

if international sanctions are going to be applied on us,
If we are the world’s most unpopular country, ahead of US and Israel (and, we magically managed to do that without invading anywhere or attacking anyone),
If they’re going to bomb our infrastructures,
If our land’s going to be their test lab for their so-called “tactical nuclear weapon” (Although I still can not convince myself that anybody could be possibly stupid enough to use that!),
If our people are going to get killed as collateral damage (and even that would be the best-case scenario! (e.g. take a look at our neighbor!),

At least we have a president we can be proud of




Just after the Islamic revolution toppled the Shah’s regime and people were still in a state of euphoria, a German reporter wrote (and I’m paraphrasing): “The Titanic of Asia is sinking but her passengers are happy”.

They say “History repeats itself” and in the Middle East, it does that, much too quickly!

Quote:

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence!

Well, since I’m not in the mood of writing, I’m going to continue with the quotes for a while, so..that’s the quote of day:

Nothing improves with age!

Quote of the day

Never sleep with anyone crazier than yourself

Quote of the day

If it seems too good to be true, it probably is!

Roll the Rim!

I don’t call it “gambling problem” and I certainly don’t feel the need to call those numbers they put on top of slot machines but last year, I almost developed an allergy to Caffeine as much as I drank Tim Horton’s stupid Coffee just to be able to “Roll the Rim”. The same thing I do with Lotto tickets. I know that statistically, the chance of winning Lotto is much less than to be hit by lightning, twice in one day! but somehow, somebody wins it every couple of weeks and that person could be me.

Anyway, as if it doesn’t suck enough to lose, and it doesn’t suck even more to be told “you lost!” in a polite way, they write it in two different languages!

La grande messe and Requiem

Mozart’s “La grande messe en ut mineur” and “Requiem” in “Basilic Notre-Dame”, could I possibly ask for more?!
It was magnificent. A dream came true.

Quote of the day

Woody Allen (in Annie Hall): A relationship I think is, like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies!

Thank you for smoking

It was smart, funny, sarcastic and very well executed. Cinematography was magnificent and dialogues (and also monologues!), although full of statistics, but not a bit boring (credit for this one, obviously goes to Christopher Buckley).

Despite all of that, I still couldn’t convince myself to put the movie in my favorite movie list and I don’t know why. All I know is, there was something missing in that film.

Anyway, it was a pleasant experience. “Circle of dead merchants” with all those witty dialogues is hilarious and the scene [don’t read this line if you haven’t seen the movie yet] in which the kidnapers put the naked body of Nick Naylor, covered with nicotine patches, on Abraham Lincoln’s statue in a way that cleverly resembles Michelangelo’s “The Pieta”, is one of the most satirical and intelligent scene that I’ve ever seen. Way to go!

Quote of the day

(Camus:)

Women are all that we’re ever going to know of paradise on earth!

Global warming!

Not even ten years ago, only a bunch of scientists were worried about it alongside with a handful of super bright politicians but now, even among the most retarded leaders in the world, there is no doubt the danger we’re facing and if there is a debate, it’s more about the effectiveness of the methods proposed by Kyoto protocol, not with the fact that Global warming is real and it’s damn serious! Well, maybe except Mr. Bush who still believes in Apocalypse more than he does in Global warming! (Although the second one is not much far from a Jesusless version of the first one!)

So, why nothing’s happening?

The fact is, although the threat is serious, and it’s getting more serious by the minutes, any major effort to reduce Green house gases by considerable amount, will lead to both dramatic changes in our life style and visible economical slow down and since most of the countries who produce the major portion of the green-house gases are being ruled democratically, no political party is willing to risk its popularity by implementing regulations which would create unemployment, higher taxes, inflation and major life style changes but eventually would save our planet from a total disaster!

I believe the only possible way is to educate people to an extent in which, not only they ask the measures to be imposed, but they punish those who don’t have a solid program to tackle the issue, by not voting for them.

As soon as the politicians feel that people do care about it and they are ready to accept the consequences, they certainly will act accordingly. At last, nobody is so anxious to see the end of the world so soon! (Sorry dear witnesses of Jehovah! I totally forgot about you!)

Public awareness in England, forced the somehow reformed Conservatives (who traditionally don’t care about these kinds of things) and their leader, David Cameron to put the environmental issues on top of their agenda. In Germany, people repeatedly show their enthusiasm by supporting the Green party in elections and in the US, some states, obviously in east and west coast, applied measures to control the emission, regardless of federal government’s indifference.

The good news is, as public awareness increases, governments seem to act more and more responsibly but there is also a bad news:

Tomorrow could be too late!

Vive la France!

Part one:
It’s official. Last night, “Jacques Chirac”, “President de la Republique”, scraped the new labor bill which had created massive protests throughout France. This humiliating defeat for the government of “de Villepan”, proved that France, at least for the moment, is simply Un-reformable.

Huge rate of unemployment (25% among young people under the age of 27) and sluggish rate of economical growth depict a very gloomy future for France’s economy which makes it more difficult for France to compete, even inside the European union with Europe’s well-reformed states like England, Ireland and Spain and some super fit newcomers like Latvia and Estonia with eye-catching growth rates.

The problem is, losing the top seed, will not only hurt their national pride, but will seriously reduce their effect in making critical decisions inside the European Union that could threaten some of their somehow unfair advantages, like receiving 70 percent of the Europe’s agricultural subsidies, despite massive oppositions from some of the states. The subsidies without which, France’s agricultural sector will simply collapse!

Personally, in this war between Coke and Wine, with huge amount of pessimism, I will support the wine side! but honestly, the scenario is not that black and white. England for example, in the past couple of years, has managed to go through comprehensive reforms and keep the exceptional economical growth rate while increasing the budget for social services dramatically, thanks to my favorite politician, UK’s chancellor and finance minister, Mr. Gordon Brown who also played a bold role in convincing wealthy nations to relieve a huge portion of Africa’s debts, just couple of months ago.

Anyway, sooner or later, France should start massive reforms just to be able to survive in the global market. We should wait and see how long the mass politics will be able to block the government. I truly hope that when they finally start, it’s not too late!

Part two:
If somebody asks you “What is the most popular dish in France?” what would be your answer? Steak-frite? Cassoulet?

According to a recent survey, the correct answer is “Couscous”! Way to go North African immigrants


An American Conclusion: Well, apparently you don’t need a powerful Nazi army and a Blitzkrieg to force the French to surrender; it can be easily done with a handful of student unions or a bowl of Couscous! Vive la France!

A race for perfection

Recently, the increasing number of people who have unnecessary plastic surgeries performed on their bodies, forced the British health department to issue a guideline, asking plastic surgeons to send people with severe symptoms of “BDD” to psychoanalysis instead of surgery room.
BDD or “Body Dysmorphic Disorder” is a preoccupation with an imagined physical defect in appearance or an exaggerated concern about a minimal defect which results in deep dissatisfaction and in acute cases, can lead to depression or even suicide. Naturally, plastic surgery is heavily abused by those with BDD, in a futile attempt to get prettier and considering the fact that just in England alone, some 600,000 people are assumed to have BDD, makes us think more seriously about it.
First of all, I’m not going to blame the media since it would undermine the ability of human being to think, but the effect of the media, is undeniable in creating such kind of disorders by publicizing aesthetic perfectionism.
Just think about all those magazine covers, TV ads and movies featuring almost perfect people all the time. I mean, just watching one of those super hot Victoria Secret’s TV adds with all those gorgeous goddess with their perfect heavenly bodies, cat-walking around in magnificent underwear, is enough to shake the confidence of any woman without chronic Narcissism (They also create another kind of disorder in men called ORBBM or “OONAA RO BEDIN BEH MAN!”)

And it is not only confined to women. The number of calorie-watchers, Gymoholic! men is increasing dramatically as a result of all those six-pack abs, Greek statue-type cover-boys (do we have this word at all? Like cover-girl?).
I’m not suggesting, like what some girls in a defensive reaction do!, that “these are all fake” or “all these models are ugly without make up or special effects”. I’m sure most of them are still very much attractive and voluptuous even in a pajama and with a morning face. The issue is not that whether they are beautiful or not, cause they certainly are. The question is, are they really aesthetically perfect?

First, like normal people, they have good days and bad days. They also have good hours and bad hours throughout a day. What we see is them at their best!

Second, their body has been fully prepared for the photo shoot.

Third, a professional fashion photographer exactly knows how he should cover up for all the imperfections of a model, by using the right filter, proper lighting, appropriate camera angle and finally, proper make up and that’s just the beginning because the outcome is also extensively edited by photo-editing softwares.
In other word, their beauty is not fake but their aesthetic perfection is. Regular people are encouraged to get to a point that doesn’t exist hence frustration is guaranteed.

Advertisement for drugs and cosmetic goods against certain defects is another problem–generating issue since in order to sell their products, they sometimes magnify a minor defect to an extent that the consumer believes it actually is a huge embarrassing problem that should be covered by any means. Put a normal teenager in front of TV to be bombarded by such kind of adds (by the way it’s not just TV adds, it’s a culture which is going on even in TV series and main stream movies), developing a BDD seems inevitable! It’s no wonder that even some beauty contest winners (including a miss world finalist) are among the victims.
The good news is, I happen to know the cure!
We have a friend called Kasra. Fortunately, He has the exact opposite disorder; I like to call it “Excessive Self-idolizing Disorder (ESD)”, in which his brain automatically erases any discomforting incoming signals (from his eyes or ears) about his appearance alongside with the memories of failures, embarrassments or mistakes in the past decade! I genuinely believe, using his DNA, there would be a definitive cure for BDD and since I’ve seen how he’s been going through a lot recently for a few bucks more! and considering the financial benefits of this research, I’m sure he’ll be pleased to help researchers, not to mention his enthusiasm for helping the humanity!

P.S. I have a feeling that he’s going to donate some of the financial benefits to Colombia! I don’t know why, but it’s just a feeling that I have!

Who is really responsible?

Recently, “Jacob Zuma”, former deputy president of South Africa was tried for raping one of his family member’s wife, knowing she is infected with HIV. He denied the rape charge while accepting having sexual intercourse with the infected woman and when he was asked that how come he dared to sleep with an HIV positive woman without using any protection, he replied:“The risk was not that high, considering the fact that I took a shower afterwards!”

Ironically, apart from being the second most powerful man in South Africa, he was the “Chairperson of the South African National Aids Council” for a considerable amount of time in a country in which five million people are infected with HIV, highest rate of infection per capita in the world!

This is the problem of Africa! And not only Africa, but any poor undeveloped nation on this planet. We can blame it forever on imperialists and colonists and wealthy nations, stealing resources and creating conflicts and toppling national figures and supporting mindless senseless dictators, but honestly are they solely responsible for the never-ending list of problems in poor countries, from war and genocide to hunger and poverty?

When the man in charge of fighting against AIDS, in a country which is one of the rare examples of a real democracy in Africa, knows about the subject less than what a high school teenager should know, do we really need any “Conspiracy theory” to explain why South Africa’s efforts to tackle the most devastating plight of the country have failed? When the second most powerful man in the country, who was supposed to replace the actual president “Thabo Mbeki”, by the end of the three years period, is being tried for sexual assault, is it any wonder why a woman is raped every 26 seconds (yes! That’s not a typo!) in South Africa?!

As long as there is stupidity and prejudice to this extent, those who are abusing the situations shouldn’t be considered the main culprit. Ignorance is not an excuse, or at least, it shouldn’t be!

Aux Plaisirs de Bacchus

Bacchus was the Roman God of wine, somehow equated with the Greek God Dionysus but that’s not what I wanted to write about. “Aux Plaisirs de Bacchus” is a super charming store in Bernard street, (Which is one of my favorite streets in Montreal and I think you’ve got it by now), specialized in wine accessories and more! From Books to wall-mounted old-fashioned bottle-opener, from Czech crystals to Absinth fountains, you can find anything Winy! there. I even found a fabulous Aroma-box (Anybody who has seen the movie “French Kiss” knows exactly what I’m talking about), that despite my will, I’m not going to spend 600$ for it.
And finally, in this glorious place, I’ve found stemware racks I’d searched everywhere for and hopefully, I should finish making my bar by tonight. I will write about my cute little bar, as soon as it’s ready.
So I drink my glass of port to Bacchus. Not the God, the Store!

The life of a bullet

I watched “lord of war” on DVD last night and I have to admit that my intellectual sense! was way off when it had suggested the movie must be a typical senseless Hollywood action, first time I’d seen the trailer.

It was SMART, it was entertaining, it was marvelously-executed, and most of all, it had a POINT and if the storyline wasn’t so predictable, with so much Hollywood cliché, it could have been even a masterpiece!
Anyway, I think “Lord of War” was the most thoughtful way to inform the public about what’s going on in the filthy world of arms trade without forcing them to watch a dead-boring documentary!

I just can’t stop admiring the opening scene, a bullet’s amazing trip, from the factory to a young African’s brain!

Where the hell are we going?

We pretend we’re rowing in a river while we are sitting on a stupid machine in the gym!
We eat our lunch in the office in front of the monitor!
We listen to our stupid MP3 player instead of interacting with people in public places!

But GOD! This is too much…



I don’t blame the manufacturer. I even think the idea is brilliant! But the concept is soooooooo sad and depressing!

Where the hell are we going?

Quote of the day

Woody Allen in Anything else (as David Dobel):
Since the beginning of time people have been, you know, frightened and, and unhappy, and they're scared of death, and they're scared of getting old, and there's always been priests around, and shamans, and now shrinks, to tell 'em, "Look, I know you're frightened, but I can help you. Of course, it is going to cost you a few bucks..." But they can't help you, Falk, because life is what it is.

Job security and the political trilemma

Protests continued in Paris over the new controversial employment law that facilitates both hiring and firing young new job-seekers for employers. Students and workers, angry about the new law which will eventually put France’s famous and long-established “job security*” in jeopardy, were marching in the streets, blocking rail-roads, traffics and services to force the government of Dominique de Villepin to back off. But do they really have any chance? Does the government of France, have the authority not to make these reforms in today world’s economy?

Well, economists say No! According to Harvard professor, Dani Rodrik, The new rule of the game called “Political trilemma”, states that, out of “Global economic integration, Nation states and mass politics”, no country in the world has the luxury to choose more than two at once.

It means, so simply, people can no longer affect the government’s economical decisions by protest or even strike, since the governments themselves do not have enough room to maneuver due to the necessities of the global economy.
The good! news is, this is just the beginning of a package of comprehensive reforms, France has to make, if she wants to be a part of the global economy in the 21st century and there is no way the government could back down in the first step of the reforms.

So the job security is the first, and certainly not the last, in the series of precious luxuries that French people are going lose. Working 35 hours a week, 5 weeks of vacation and lot more are in the waiting list!

It hurts to have something precious and then lose it, but people of France should realize they are going to have to choose between Job security and No job at all! Like it or not, that’s the harsh reality of the globalization

So, my dear French friends,
Welcome to the new world…I know it sucks, but that’s the way it is...Bon appetit!



* Clarification for my North American readers: Job security is a European term like Vacation, Culture and history that has nothing to do with us, North Americans. It means that you are somehow more precious than a piece of toilet paper! and nobody can throw you away after wiping his ass with! but since from now on, we are all going to be the same, there is no reason to be jealous or worry about!

These British Gentlemen

You can sleep on the bed! Apparently that’s what US’s foreign secretary, Condoleezza Rice offers to her British counterpart Jack Straw, during a seven hours flight to Baghdad. Well, Mr. Straw takes the offer and sleeps on the one and only bed in the plane but as he wakes up, he finds Dr. Rice, sleeping on the floor!
While a story of this kind could be hardly taken seriously anywhere in the world to be even qualified as news, in the land of “Gentlemen” they’ve made quite a big fuss out of it! “Diplomatic ethics aside, How on earth a gentleman could take the bed and let a lady sleep on the floor?!” they say!

In his defense, maybe Dr. Rice has offered the bed to her sleepy colleague insisting that she wanted to keep working and didn’t feel like sleeping at all. But eventually, she felt exhausted and slept on the floor. Considering my deep respect for Jack Straw, I have the tendency to believe my version of the story! :)

And although , it’s more like “much ado about nothing”, considering what’s going on in the world right now, it’s still nice to see there’re people in the world who so profoundly care about these kinds of social etiquettes which are considered by the main stream, obsolete!

Question: How come there are people in the world who demand their leaders not to be less than a gentlemen, on top of all leadership and political skills, and there are others who can’t get their leaders just to shut the hell up!?

P.S. An advice to Mr. Straw: Next time you were in the same situation, you’d better say (read with a posh British accent like that of Mr. Straw!) “I suppose the bed is big enough to hold both of us my dear!” :)

Keep your breath!

Every time you take a breath,
Keep that breath,
just a bit more.

I hope someday,
This extra dose of
Green-house gas,

Makes your heart,
Globally warm!

13 Beh dar!

Some people say, this place has the best ice cream in town. Well I don’t know about that, but I can confidently say, It was good enough!
One double ice cream from this cute ice cream café in Bernard street, was a delicious ending to a very pleasing “13 beh dar” and a perfect desert for Pop Soly’s (Sanam's Father!) first but successful attempt to make “Ash Reshteh”.

ByeBye dear Spring...at least for now!

Well, forget about everything I wrote in the past few days. It’s snowing right now, and although it could have been beautiful in November, it’s certainly not in April! Laughing at fucked up seagulls who're trying to figure out what’s happening, is the only laughable matter today alongside with Jon Stewart’s funny remark, “if you see a Hedgehog, punch him in the face!”
And poor trees, they’d prepared themselves to celebrate the spring! It’s damn hard to be a tree in Canada!

An interesting scientific research

“Gerhard Herzberg” gold medal, Canada’s equivalent to the Nobel prize, which, similar to most of the Canadians equivalents, is only known to Canadians themselves!” was awarded to Professor “David Dolphin”, from UBC, for his amazing research on the unique properties of Porphyrin, a highly colored, donut-shaped chemical with a metallic part in the middle among which, Heme (part of blood’s hemoglobin which is red and has Iron in the middle) and Chlorophyll (which is green and has magnesium in the middle) are two known examples.
What Professor Dolphin discovered was, if the central metallic part is removed from the Porphyrin, it can absorb light and transfer it to a molecule of oxygen and for a very brief period of time, change a normal non-toxic molecule of oxygen to a highly-toxic one, which can be used to destroy unwanted tissues, like tumors. The magical thing is, as soon as the light goes off, the toxicity disappears within 2 milliseconds. A drug which has been made based on this exceptional chemicals, not only can destroy tumor cells, but also the blood vessels who are responsible for feeding the tumor thus it’s much more effective than most of the drugs which are presently being used against cancer.
I found it quite amazing and I just wanted to share this with you.

P.S. The Herzberg's gold medal is being awarded each year by “NSERC”, alongside with one million dollars of research funding.

Five signs of the spring’s arrival

1. Skirts on the march! ( Unlike Bush’s democracy, they are truly on the march!)
2. Fragrance of the grass!
3. Moisture in the air!
4. Tables and chairs sitting outside of the cafés and restaurants
5. Naz’s cute welcome note!

Enjoy the Spring and indulge as much as you can!

A great day to be alive

Unlike Tehran, in Montreal spring does not come on March 20th. It comes when the temperature reaches to a certain level where ladies can comfortably wear short skirts with bare legs! There’s no need to say that their comfort level, which is slightly higher than water’s freezing point! is quite different than that of a normal human being!
I used the word “comfortably” since you can see them, wearing skirts and standing in lines in front of St-Laurent’s clubs on Saturday nights even when the temperature is 30 degrees below zero! (and I always admire them, while shivering, from the inside of my mobile shelter, normally made of twelve layers of clothes, jackets, gloves, hat, scarf and sometimes a stupid face-cover!)
Anyway, today was the day that gorgeous Montrealers were marching in the streets, showing off their beautiful bodies as well as their bold taste in fashion, to celebrate the unofficial annual parade of féminité and spring.

P.S. Item of the day: Hair removal wax! :)

Quote of the day

Ben Gurion: In Middle East, in order to be a realist, you have to believe in miracle!

Trojan horse and public illiteracy

I remember when I went to see the movie “Troy”, I got so frustrated. It wasn’t just because they’d squeezed a ten years war into a less than two weeks combat or they’d totally ignored the whole concept of Achilles’ immortality, or the fact that they’d censored Achilles and Patroclus love affair for the sake of the American homophobic audience. The reason of my frustration was, as the movie went on and the Trojans accepted the horse and etc (as I hope you know the story! :)), when Greeks jumped out of the horse, Paris and his army were not the only individuals who got surprised, but a good portion of the audience were accompanied them with a “Waaaaaaaaoooo” Sound!
And I was like “It’s obvious that you don’t read, but did any of you go to school at the some point or what?!!”
Well, considering the fact that Canadians and specially Montrealers are considered quite knowledgeable in North America, and they really are, you can figure out the rest!