Tuesday, August 29, 2006

I become more secretive day by day

Monday, August 28, 2006

I HATE FRICKIN OPPRESSED MUSLIM WOMEN THAT OPPRESS THEMSELVES

Sunday, August 27, 2006

tired of the committee
bonfire dances beside the dark pacific
sand and sky
i know you're watching
i think i'll go to boston
i think i'll start a new life
where no one knows my name
get out of california

oh wait
like an anvil in quicksand

Saturday, August 26, 2006

sins to which there are no back door.

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

and then we disappear into the ether
damn you jerry bruckheimer

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

the cruel irony of life: the only wedding i ever wanted to attend, i can't

du'as for a brilliant day, faaiza.

Thursday, August 10, 2006

absolutely essential rules to live by as a producer...

-don't eat string cheese during casting sessions

-don't let actors, other producers, director, casting director, and their friends see you zip off on your razor scooter with a sack on your back


you know you're producing when

-your cell phone battery dies according to prayer times - fard, sunnah and nawafil.

-you answer the phone before it rings

-you wish your thighs could type

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

There's a positive correlation between freedom and insecurity. freedom -> infinite choice -> chaos -> decay

despots at least create a sense of "order".

there must be a middle ground, but to assert that middle ground, individuals need to achieve a critical mass

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Muslims will not fight to defend Muslims, even if they achieve democracy. Now we have the excuse that most Muslims are oppressed under autocrats in league w/ US interests, but if you look at polls and interviews with people on the street in the mworld, many folks are concerned with establishing domestic tranquility rather than getting into "foreign" wars. Sure, many m countries are trying to get on their feet after decades of colonization. Sure, the masajid boom with criticism of muslims' laziness. but at the end of the day, if these countries had a democracy, and the people were polled whether their nation should go to war to defend lebanon or palestine, they'd opt for their troops to stay home and build nice little power plants for the locals. A free, democratic people arent necessarily the most just or selfless. Heck, as i said before, there's no guarantee they're even intelligent. But how would you get a lazy people to trust a leader's decision to take their people to war without a massive propaganda campaign?