In Defiance

You Don't Just Discover You've Lost Weight and Not Eat Ice Cream

Tue, 07 May 2013 01:36:00 -0400

So today I weighed myself and discovered I was down a couple of pounds. I didn’t trust the scale so I adjusted it and tried again. The weight went back up 2 pounds but was still lower than before. I took that as a sign that I needed to eat even more ice cream and quickly wiped off a pint, drowned in chocolate syrup. Not that I’ve ever needed a reason to.

New York Subway

Wed, 01 May 2013 13:44:22 -0400

New York Subway

The Pakistan that was For more,...

Wed, 01 May 2013 12:42:00 -0400

A newspaper clipping on how Pakistani pop fans gate-crashed their way into a bar at the Karachi Airport where the famous pop band The Beatles were waiting for a connecting flight.

An early 1970s press ad of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA). PIA was considered to be one of the ten best airlines in the world between 1962 and 1980.

A couple swings into action at a New Year’s party at a nightclub at Karachi’s Hotel Metropole (1957).

A young Pakistani woman sitting on her motorbike in the Soldier Bazzar area of Karachi (1969).

A 1973 press ad of the famous Hotel Midway House in Karachi. The hotel was owned and run by PIA. It was popular with tourists and locals alike for its barbeque restaurant and night club.

Ava Gardner shooting a scene at the Lahore Railway Station in 1954.

A rare photograph of Karachi’s famous nightclub scene of the late 1960s and 1970s.

Two hippie tourists at a tea shop in Sibi, Balochistan, in 1972.

The Pakistan that was

For more, see:

http://dawn.com/2012/02/09/also-pakistan-2/
http://dawn.com/2012/05/24/also-pakistan-ii/
http://dawn.com/2012/07/26/also-pakistan-iii/comment-page-3/
http://dawn.com/2012/08/09/also-pakistan-iv/comment-page-6/

"Hindsight is almost a bigger bitch than you are."

Wed, 01 May 2013 12:39:23 -0400

“Hindsight is almost a bigger bitch than you are.”

- Damon, TVD.

What if Disney villains were beautiful? (“Beauty” being...

Wed, 01 May 2013 12:14:00 -0400

What if Disney villains were beautiful? (“Beauty” being narrowly, shallowly defined, of course!)

Source: http://imgur.com/DY6DTxn

Photo

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:29:00 -0400

"The need to love is as important a force in human society as is the will to power. Power wants to..."

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:25:55 -0500

“The need to love is as important a force in human society as is the will to power. Power wants to destroy or consume or drive away the other, the one who is different, whose will is different. Love wants the other to remain, always nearby, but always itself, always other.”

- Margaret Trawick
(For square pegs in round holes)

"As in grammar two negatives make an affirmative, so in matrimonial morality two prostitutions pass..."

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:38:00 -0500

“As in grammar two negatives make an affirmative, so in matrimonial morality two prostitutions pass for a virtue.”

- Fourier

I’m on the pursuit of happiness and I know, Everything...

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:34:00 -0500

I’m on the pursuit of happiness and I know,
Everything that’s shine ain’t always gonna be gold (hey)
I’ll be fine once I get it, get it in, I’ll be good.

Tell me what you know about dreamin’ (dreamin’)
You ain’t really know bout nothin’ (nothin’)

Being called a girl is an insult. An example of how the male...

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 00:37:00 -0500

Being called a girl is an insult. An example of how the male version of a word becomes the default.

"With chains of matrimony and modesty You can shackle my feet The fear will haunt you That crippled,..."

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:12:00 -0400

“With chains of matrimony and modesty
You can shackle my feet
The fear will haunt you
That crippled, unable to walk
I shall continue to think”

- Kishwar Naheed

The wind

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 03:45:00 -0500

…is blowing the leaves off the trees in front of my eyes.