A dead crazy week. A nourishing time for my malnourished mind. Suffering from withdrawals of a Mountain Dew induced caffeine high. Hungry, thirsty but above all dreadfully consumed with fatigue. Burntout with unenthusiastic vital signs; a basketcase poster boy. But the one week holiday starts tonight. Hopefully there are pieces of me that can still […]

I love my indie flicks and in the midst of all the summer blockbusters people might like to see something a bit low key. Art School Confidential is exactly that.
The story is about Jerome, a young man from the suburbs who wants nothing more than to be the greatest artist in the world. So […]

Warning: This review is very bias. I was an avid fan between the ages of 8 and 13 (the ages when you’re allowed to read comic books)
X-Men The Last Stand is supposed to be the final movie in the great franchise, although I expect them to make another one a few years from now and […]

Poland welcomed the first visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the country which started Thursday, May 25, with a ban on racy ads and liquor sales. Polish tabloid newspapers refrained from publishing the usual photos of topless models on their back pages, Reuters reported.
Bars in the capital Warsaw will be either closed or serving only […]

On wednesday night during LOST commercials I would change the channel over to FOX to see who won in American Idol. At this point it feels like the show has gone too far. Now when Taylor Hicks won it felt like a moment that centuries later would be described as the creation of some religious […]

Five Kuwaiti women made history on Thursday by becoming the first females to register as candidates for parliamentary elections, ending a 44-year-old ban on their political participation.
“It’s a historic day. It’s a dream come true and the actual beginning of Kuwaiti women’s participation in public life,” leading women’s rights activist Rula Dashti said after filing […]

It seems like I’ve been ranting and raving about this film since I first started blogging a little over a year ago. So yeah, you can safely assume I am eagerly waiting for it to come to theatres. Maybe because it brings together one of the coolest filmmakers today with a science fiction legend. A […]

…I offer a personal story (or rather telling) about a can’t-quite-put-my-finger-on-it kind of emotion…
It’s kind of strange how Independence Day can mean different things to different people. Everyone sees it in a certain light and how they view this day is also a reflection of how they feel about the country and their place in […]

Warning: this post contains spoilers.
So the second season of LOST came to an end tonight with half a dozen plot twists making it the great climax of the year. A lot of the mystery surrounded Desmond, a character we haven’t seen on the show since the beginning of the season. Who would’ve known that such […]

An Al-Qaeda-linked umbrella group in Iraq denied any link to a suspect whose alleged confessions were aired on Jordanian television, in an Internet statement posted on an Islamist website.
“We don’t even know the individual shown on Jordanian television,” the Mujahedeen Consultative Council said.
The confessions of the man whom Jordanian state television presented as Ziad Khalaf […]

Nike Inc. is putting the world’s most popular music player to work in a system designed for its latest athletic shoes that tells runners the distance and time they’ve covered in their daily jog.
The company teamed up with Apple Computer Inc. to offer the Nike+iPod Sport Kit, a wireless system that includes a sensor chip […]

It seems to me that every time Israel and the U.S. gets together they talk about negotiations and road maps and deciding the fate of Palestinians…without the Palestinians. Olmert plans to remove the smaller settlements and puts it in such a way as if he’s doing the Palestinians a favour! Bush says he accepts the […]

AMMAN (JT) â?? A suspected Iraqi member of Al Qaeda confessed Tuesday on Jordan TV to shooting a citizen in the head and kidnapping two Moroccan diplomats in the neighbouring country last year.
Ziyad Khalaf Karbouli, described as a local leader of Al Qaeda â??in charge of war bountiesâ? in the Iraqi town of Rutba, near […]

Even though I’m in Toronto right now I can hear the cars honking on the streets of Amman to indicate that two people are on their way to getting married and everyone in their family apparently has a car that came with a horn. So I feel inclined to rant about the noise pollution from […]

Two days ago I was ranting on about the ‘Culture of Shame’ in Jordan and its negative effects on unemployment in the country, especially in the face of national companies employing foreign labor instead of the domestic alternative. Natasha has an interesting post on the recent plan to ‘Jordanize’ the labor force that’s worth reading. […]