Pop-up Quiz
October 18, 2012
A pedestrian is to American suburbia as a …..
Category: OddiTies
Oops!
August 11, 2012
Just want to send a shoutout to the peaceloving mosquitoes of Awassa. Sorry I went into a manic frenzy and killed half a dozen of you within minutes of arriving. I shoulda known something was different about you when you just waited around for me to squish the life out of your soft bodies instead … More Oops!
Hence the blog?
December 23, 2011
“Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering … More Hence the blog?
Anyplace
December 14, 2011
Love is like someone knocking at the door to the most private part of you and you’re inside running around frantically straightening up the room while calling out “Just a minute!”. And that knocking keeps coming, consistent and insistent. And the more you straighten up the more you feel you’ve messed it up instead. Sooner … More Anyplace
By popular request…part two!
December 6, 2011
Reasons to Get out of a Warm Comfy Bed on a December Morning 1) It ain’t yo bed. 2) You don’t recognize the owner of the bed. 3) There’s a funny smell.
For Monday Mornings: Why The Way There Is Better Than The There
December 5, 2011
Five days a week, traveling on the 41, 71 or 108, I find myself dreading what’s at the other end of my trip (work) and wishing that the bus ride would last just a little longer, but of course it never does. Extra stops don’t materialize. Road doesn’t magically elongate itself. Never any decent traffic … More For Monday Mornings: Why The Way There Is Better Than The There
99 Names for Injera
November 29, 2011
Marge calls it “galalalalalala”, Lisa thinks it’s a pancake, foodie websites up and down the internet call it yeast-risen flatbread, sponge-like bread, crepe-like flat bread, sour pancake, flatbread, sourdough pancake-like bread, flat spongy bread, flat crepe like food that has millions of bubbles or holes on its surface, (millions, really?) American-style Ethiopian bread, sour flat-bread, … More 99 Names for Injera
Chinglish Poetry Collection, Vol.2
October 31, 2011
Here, bring together the world short time Can span several country Choose to suit his way of life Because here, I have the world! Fashion is not something that exists in dresses in dresses onlg fashion isin the sky in the street fashion has to do with ideas the way welive You gave me a … More Chinglish Poetry Collection, Vol.2
Chinglish Poetry Collection, Vol. 1
September 30, 2011
Our young dynamic Good feeling Dance gently in the cup I believe music Can change a person Good coffee Can change a person I say there’s nothing special in love. Somebody loves somebody for no reason, just curious Just want to see again and missed so much I say there is no … More Chinglish Poetry Collection, Vol. 1
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August 25, 2011
If you’re going to be lonely it’s best to do it in a city where you know no one. To be lonely in a city where you know many, and many know you, is the worst kind of loneliness. There is no excuse for it. It is more pathetic than regular loneliness, the right kind. … More Pre
Rebecca Fisseha, Writer. 