My thoughts these days fly towards a man who, even though has great responsibilities in his life, manages to keep a blog, thus staying in touch with the masses. This man, Almightly God bless his pure soul, brings us great delight when he sweetly walks on our North American soil and laughingly tells mister Bush things that make everyone blush.
I can only hope that dear Ahmadi has time for some entertainment too, the kind that he fights so vehemently against. God forgive me, Sir Mahmoud, but I think no man alive can whole heartedly say that he doesn’t enjoy such jewels.
From the Iran of Mohammad Reza, May God grant him a place in Heaven and many, many virgins, a dedication for Ahmadi:
Nice dance, I am sure he will love it!!
But about Mohammad Reza, I am not sure if I would like to see him in heaven either.
OH! by the way, gorgeous blog picture!
I was being sarcastic, it’s not like there actually is such a place called Heaven where virgins grow on trees and Mohammad Reza happily joins Che Guevara for a junior cheerleader feast in the rose garden.
The blog picture is a present from someone special, glad you like it:)
“My thoughts these days fly towards a man who, even though has great responsibilities in his life, manages to keep a blog, thus staying in touch with the masses. This man, Almightly God bless his pure soul, brings us great delight when he sweetly walks on our North American soil and laughingly tells mister Bush things that make everyone blush.”
I must confess, Ahmadin never made me blush one bit, but he does so make me laugh! His sense of humour is quite unparalleled. As when he asserted with deadpan expression that there were no homosexuals in Iran!
Another great witticism was his promise to “wipe Israel off the map of the earth”. I mean, people actually believe he said so! Can you imagine the imbeciles? And then, just when some people thought they might give him the benefit of a doubt, he came back with his greatest knee-slapper to date, “Israel is a stinking corpse… a dead rat…”…
How stupid they all are, these North American yahoos! Whenever I see or hear his latest quips, sharp as razor, going straight for the jugular, (Jon Stewart, eat your heart out!), I think, with some sadness, that the world has indeed lost its greatest comedian when Ahmadi decided to channel his brilliance into denial: Holocaust denial (a genius stroke, that one!) or Nukes denial. And just watch all those rats scurrying about when he makes these utterly sweet and pure comments, accompanied. as they are by his infectious and endearing smile and happy eyes!
Blessed, blessed man!
Actually, when I wrote this post I had in mind exactly that homo statement. “There is no such phenomenon in Iran, I don’t know who told you we have it”.
Well…let’s see. In Iran, there are no schools for both boys and girls before university. It’s pretty hard to meet people of the opposite sex. It’s hard to date, since they ask you for your marriage certificate on the street and if you don’t have it they arrest you and God knows what happens to you then! In such an environment I would become gay in a minute! If I were an 18 year old boy who didn’t grow up around girls and I have to, on top of gathering the courage to ask someone out, be careful that I’m not too obvious and the word of my new love interest doesn’t spread (otherwise I might end up getting whipped in front of the whole city), I would…emigrate to Canada:)
No, really, there are gays in Iran and if an immigrant Romanian girl knows this, I think everyone else is aware of it too.
Ahmadi is funny. However, Iran lost a lot of things to this ridiculous totalitarian religious regime and Ahmadi is still the advocate of it. No matter how much I dislike the damn “yahoos” with their corporatist empire and subtle, subliminal, soul-killing propaganda, I at least have to be happy that I am able to have a blog and write a post like this one whenever I want without my temples pounding whenever the phone rings.
I love Iranian culture and arts. I wish they had their own free country where they would continue what they started a few thousands years ago and I could visit too:)
I thought of this cabaret scene the past couple of days as I was watching some videos from Tajikistan. Now, there’s a Farsi-speaking culture where women singers can feel free to add a little cabaret style or even emulate Britney and Madonna (not that that’s always a good choice aesthetically, but at least they’re free to do so if they want to). They also mix their Persian music and culture very liberally with a lot of other influences.
And Ironically(?), some, like Shabnam Soraya, are particularly popular in Afghanistan.
I think Shabnam really rocks too (at least sometimes), and she knows how to mix and transcend a lot of syles.
Anda, are you familiar at all with Tajik culture? From the little bit I’m learning, it also comes from Persian roots, taken in a different direction. (Though not always a pretty history, especially recently – civil war, accusations of ethnic cleansing…unfortunately, a famiiliar story.)
Maybe you know a bit more about this place than I do, since it was once part of the Soviet Union.
I’d welcome any thoughts on it… I’d also welcome a little translation if you actually know any Farsi.
Hi Richard. Actually I’m not familiar with the Tajik culture. I’m Romanian and my country and culture are much more influeced by the Western European and even, lately, by the American culture than by the Eastern (including Russian) culture. Romania was under the political influence of the Soviet Union for some 45 years or so but they were not really part of it.
However, I do have an Iranian boyfriend and he says that what they speak in Tajikistan is “Persian with a funny accent”. I listened to the song on your blog. It sounds to me like rough Farsi (some very strong consonants and much less flow than actual Farsi) and the accent most probably comes from Russian.
I haven’t heard of any of the Farsi-speaking singers that you mention but I have seen some music videos on the net and on the Persian channels from LA and a lot of them do look like Middle Eastern Britney Spearses:)
I will ask my boyfriend if he can translate some things for you.
Thanks, Anda – if your boyfriend could translate some of this, that might be fun…
Warlock says : I absolutely agree with this !