Leonard Cohen
by Adam | Monday 30 August 2010
Just stumbled upon some awesome footage of TFR Board of Trustees Member Leonard Cohen hitting on a German girl in a 1971 documentary....
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Passaggi Obbligati
by Adam | Tuesday 24 August 2010
31/7/10 Istanbul We sat in an outdoor cafe, which was more like a patio once meant for something else and while he sketched the view across the Bosporus, I read aloud from a book I'd picked up that morning...
On the Campaign Trail...
by Adam | Sunday 22 August 2010
Friends, I am off stealing yard signs for the heated 'ag commish' race in Alabama. If there's not an exciting story there, I promise I will write you soon about Turkey and Dubai. In the meantime, enjoy this and pray...
excerpt from a ting.
by Adam | Tuesday 17 August 2010
...I’ve listened to historians explain how the Csarist army conscription/pogrom narrative from my grandfatjer’s generation is really a perpetuated myth. An overblown tall tale. How closely Morris Bober’s flight from Russia in Bernard Malamud’s book The Assistant resembles the story...
Bloomberg Love
by Adam | Friday 13 August 2010
I am really sad I wasn't in New York when Mayor Bloomberg gave his speech in eloquent defense of the proposed mosque and community center near the World Trade Center site. If you haven't been following, most New Yorkers are...
Driving from Jenin (ii)
by Adam | Friday 6 August 2010
The day’s end came while we were gunning back to Ramallah. Along with the wrenching of the van—with the same erratic gusto as before (substituting techno music for Koran verses)—I felt enervated and unsettled by the intensity of the...
Turkish Delight/Coffee (break)
by Adam | Monday 2 August 2010
Not that any of this sojourn has had any real altruism behind it, but I hope you'll excuse me for a few days while I explore Turkey and visit Dubai with an old friend, likely not having many moments to...
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Jerusalem Post piece from Jenin
by Adam | Sunday 1 August 2010
Enjoy people....
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