Japanese Baseball Food

Root Root Root and Buy Me Some Eel!!!

* missing my hubby who's currently enjoying a Sox game in Boston... :-)

Paris Tea Dreams

Leading Clerics Defy Ayatollah on Disputed Iran Election

Ironically, this may be proof that nothing will change in Iran.

The clerics are siding with the people, securing their position of influence and power in Iranian society. Let's not forget that Mousavi is no spring chicken - his political transformation is fairly recent and his plans certainly do not include a secular government.

It's safe to say that some change is better than nothing at all - abolition of the ''moral police'', a willingness to open dialogue with foreign countries, less discrimination against women in Iran, elimination of state-run TV networks, etc. Still, I am tempted to believe that plus ça change...

This morning's Times article

Tough Cookie

Rules to Eat By

United States Food Administration poster, circa 1917

Pining for Sunday... :-(

Space Cadets

Mushroom Mania

Lazy

Midnight Snack

Iranian Leaders Gaining the Edge Over Protesters

*via New York Times

Flash Flower Garden

Create your own flower garden!

Murakami reveals Orwell and Aum as twin inspirations for new novel

The English translation of 1Q84 is rumored to be released in 2012... How the hell are we supposed to wait that long?!
*via The Guardian

Know Your Melons

Kawaii!

When Frank Lloyd Wright Saw Red

FLW apparently intended the Upper East Side's Great White Beast to be red... A Fifth Avenue Shocker!

Eighties Child

I could sketch the whole of my childhood around Michael Jackson hits. First record: Thriller. First cassette: Bad. I begged my mother to get me Moonwalk for my 13th birthday (she did, and I read it straight through, fascinated). I had a red boombox, a sequined glove, too-short pants... A break-dancer wanna-be. And a horrible one at that.

But then things turned sour with a myriad of visits to the plastic surgeon, babies dangling from balconies and more sinister charges. And yet in spite of all that, a Jackson Five episode on TV or a song from Off the Wall or Thriller will still slap a smile on my face.

Colour Me Barry

Ahmadinejad Assails Obama as Opposition Urges Defiance

Mr. Ahmadinejad’s remarks, quoted on the semi-official Fars news agency, came as news reports suggested that more than a third of Iran’s 290 Parliament members had snubbed a victory party for him Wednesday night and as opposition figures said 70 academics had been arrested after meeting with the main opposition leader...

Day Off Tomorrow

Letter From Tehrān

In the New Yorker this week:
With the Marchers

Iranian Rally Is Dispersed as Voting Errors Are Admitted

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/world/middleeast/23iran.html?hp

Monday Morning Haiku

Halcyon days - then
Cubicles, microwaves - now
Mondays do lack spice

Insomnia

Can't sleep.
My thoughts look and feel like a Richard Serra sculpture.
Not a bad thing in itself, but not exactly conducive to them
golden slumbers either.

Moleskine Book Hack