Sociale Café in Tahlia Street
on the way. . .
there. . .
on the way back. . .
Simon Taylor
Aseeb & Al Shabab | عسيبا و لشباب
روحي وما ملكت يداي فداه
My soul and all that I
possess are sacrifice for him
وطني الحبيب وهل أحب سواه
My beloved homeland, and is
there any other I love?
وطني الذي قد عشت تحت سماله
My homeland under whose
sky I have lived
وهو الذي قد عشت فوق
Stupidity, Idiocy and the Problem of Evil: art after genocide, part III
Deleuze makes a nice distinction between stupidity and idiocy. Stupidity is not thinking. It is the enemy of philosophy; or philosophy its, since philosophy's task is to combat stupidity. Stupidity is not thinking in so far as stupidity doesn't think for itself, so it can appear
⑦ How Cinema Has Changed Our Minds
or, How Recording Moving Images Has Changed Our Minds
Indirectly, I've heard a reader ask, Where's he heading with these philosophers he's talking about? and, because it's gratifying to be read, I am answering the question. The philosophers I have been writing
Sunday Lunch, Al Batha البطحاء & environs
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includes one of the oldest submunicipalities of Riyadh, where I popped out of the metro station at Al-Bathaa (pronounced, 'al-bot-ha'):
to be rebuilt out of mudbrick or breezeblock. . . ?
I was heading to the Imam Turki bin Abdullah Grand Mosque wanting
putting on the ريتز & JAX
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it had been a palace.
A family were having a Halloween party as we entered, the best costume, a redhead dressed in a realistic pumpkin. Which brings to mind an episode not photographed.
The opportunity arose to visit Riyadh's Saudi German Hospital for
art after genocide, part II
Simon Bennett, director, writes in his valedictory for Tom Stoppard, recently deceased,
He gave us some good shit to sink our teeth into.
–Facebook post, 30.11.2025
The New York Times obituary is equally a travesty:
A voracious reader but otherwise remarkably undereducated ...
He didn't go to