Leaving in about 55 minutes. Back in 17 days.
Update: Arrived at 4 a.m. Riding in the dark along the 30 kilometers or so that connect the airport to the city, I saw some striped bottoms foraging along the road. Indeed, instead of a deer or a fox crossing my path, it was […]
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I can make gnocchi.
As mentioned in previous posts, the Egyptian government has no credibility where assertions of its own good works are concerned. One only need recall its bogus, thoroughly discredited claim of springing those tourist-hostages in the dead of night, while “eliminating” the culprits, a few months ago. I am also told that to visit the […]
A sister-in-law’s annual circular. She is usually quite on the mark:
Well, this year I am at a distinct disadvantage. I have not been able to see one of the five best pictures, MILK, and it has affected my decision-making process (it never came to the regular theaters here in Maui). But, here […]
His unexpected release from prison is very big news. He was thrown in jail shortly after we arrived in Egypt, essentially for the offense of running for President.
If anything, the whole ordeal demonstrated that a gazillion dollars paid by the U.S. to this country over 30 years has resulted in something like no influence. […]
Called to my attention by the Big E, who knew that I would love it:
“A Republican governor, you might say, is sort of like a Republican congressman—except with actual responsibilities.”
- Heindrik Hertzberg
The decrapifier. If if doesn’t work, then I am bagging gmail, because it has been a bust, I tell you, a bust.
The reasons we ended up at the Cairo tower yesterday are not flattering to me. Setting out for Al Azar Park, I missed the switch-back twice and found myself driving our minivan through a long, long tunnel that connects the west side of the city with the central, nearly most trafficked square. “We will be […]