Barf in the UAE!

Readers rave: "Useless!" "Confusing!" "Willfully obscure." "Nearly incomprehensible." "Give me a break: you think you even _have_ readers? You only update this thing once a year!"

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Location: Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Some uncouth readers may think that by "Barf," I'm referrring to the colloquial Americanism for vomit. In fact, dear reader, I mean no such thing. Barf is a marvellous Iranian product, a detergent that makes clothes so white, they're just like barf! (Which, of course, is Persian for 'snow.') I pray for your eternal souls, you poor ignorant things.

10 February 2008

Under Construction




Dubai, constantly unfinished: amid chaos, building construction and reconstruction, working and reworking of the roads, rewritten laws, reshaped priorities, those who stay remain unfinished, incomplete, half-lives here and other half-halves there.

Nonetheless, the towers do eventually emerge, but half-full of promise, waiting for a completion to come...

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