Noon time conversation between a group of office girls reveal the variety in spicing an avocado.
“Oh, red wine vinegar is the best. With salt and ground pepper!”
“I put red wine vinegar and garlic powder. Mmm.”
“I like it plain. Cut it in half, throw out the pit, scoop it with a spoon. Cold”
“I gotta have a bit of lemon squeezed in, but […]
Dubai is a city in United Arab Emirates. This is what Dubai looked like in 1990. My cousin was born the same year.
This is Dubai in 2003. My cousin’s 1st year in middle school. Kinda looks like Tokyo.
This is what Dubai will look like around 2010. If she wishes, my cousin will be going to […]
“Stocks share premium liquidated options.” Also meaning ”a hoard of piglets rationing a variety of special gooey food”.
I was thinking about money, looking up, chin on hand, between loads of paper and a blinking computer screen. What if one day all computers crashed. What if numbers only meant something if you could count them in your hands. No assets. No debts. No money.
Maybe […]
The lady downstairs ran outside carrying her smoking television set. Shortly after, the drummer in the attic came downstairs with a smoking alarm clock. I thought to grab my camera because this made a good story, but realized I had to save my piano. So I ran into my room and un-plugged the power strip.
The […]
A boy stood in the way of train doors closing, looking a bit dazed in the manic confusion of a Thursday morning rush hour, where both children and adults pushed elbow to elbow. I was close to pulling the boy’s arm out of harm’s way, when he looked at me, then outside, and in great stature, welcomed his mother whose panting breath […]
On his wall are the oceans.
Under his microscope is a moon.
Through his finger tips, come dreams.
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At an airport in New York, my brother saw a boy with a red Jewish cap with a Coca Cola design. As the boy stood in line to board the plane to Israel, he reluctantly changed his cap to a more traditional white version. ’Oh’ my brother thought, ’of course’. Then up close on the corner of the kippah, in tiny letters, was engraved Nike.
Here are other interesting caps, called […]
Long time ago, dangerous chemicals that easily caught fire were labeled “inflammable”, a word in Latin meaning “easily in flames”.
But wait, doesn’t IN signify the opposite, so it must mean Not flammable?
Many people thought this, and acted accordingly, that to prevent safety hazards the word “flammable” was created and it efficiently replaced the confusing labels.
On […]
