Within a minute of boarding a plane and sitting down I always reach for the emergency pamphlet just to chuckle as I resurrect Tyler Durden’s eternal observation: Emergency water landing, 600 miles an hour: blank faces, calm as Hindu cows…

It started with ‘Da Vinci Code’ and ended with ‘Deception Point’ as I’ve only recently managed to cover all of Dan Brown’s books. My conclusion? Brown is a pretty bad writer. I’m sorry, I know there are big fans of the guy out there but he’s frankly a bad writer. So what makes it for [...]

Can you imagine life without music? Monday morning’s without a soundtrack? Every car ride you’ve ever taken, every time you’ve been out cruising, without a single tune as your GPS? I admit I sometimes take music as seriously as Jack Black’s character, Barry, in High Fidelity. I’m the guy who goes on one hour rants [...]

I freaked out when I read this, the kind of freaking out that results in hair pulling but currently my hair is too short to pull so I slapped myself hard to make sure I wasn’t dreaming… Jordan’s Al-Dastour newspaper reports that the Department of Publications is taking Jordanian poet Ibrahim Nasrallah to court over [...]

I just finished this book Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, which is actually older than I am but nevertheless a great read. Anne Tyler tells the story of a Baltimore family who is abandoned early on by their father. Pearl Tull is left to raise Cody, Ezra and Jenny on her own, all the while [...]

So I was biking yesterday and out of no where a spasm shot through my lower back and I was down for the day. I spent most of it on my couch, on my back, reading. I couldn’t get up to do anything and it’s times like these you wish for family because of course [...]

Amman: Jordan’s Council of Churches on Saturday urged a government ban on the film The Da Vinci Code for being “a violation of redlines”, the official Petra news agency reported. Council Secretary General Hanna Nour said the movie, based on a best-selling novel by Dan Brown “has been previously banned from publication in Jordan and [...]

“What if everything you think you know about Jesus is wrong?”. This was the headline from last Sunday’s Dateline report. You might remember Michael Baigent from recent news with his high profile lawsuit against author Dan Brown, claiming that The Da Vinci Code was copied from his own book Holy Blood, Holy Grail. He lost. [...]