Andisheh Nouraee

I’ve been busy. I’m now a contributor to Atlanta’s Metblog. It’s a group blog dedicated to all things Atlanta. I’ll be using it to talk about my neighborhood and things going on around town. I just wrote a piece about…

I saw one of my favorite new bands, The Futureheads, at The Loft last night. While at the show, I had what one might call an unfortunate incident. I got in a brief scuffle with a man in a green…

Because everybody knows that the January 30 elections stopped the insurgency. World > Terrorism & Security posted June 1, 2005, updated 12:00 p.m. ‘Peaceful’ Basra now out of control?Iraqi police chief say at least 50 percent of his force has…

This is funny, to me anyway: Rocker Jeff Baxter Moves And Shakes In National Security — Once With Doobie Brothers, Now in Counterterrorism, He Has Ear of Pentagon Jeff Baxter played psychedelic music with Ultimate Spinach, jazz-rock with Steely Dan…

Here’s a multi-punchlined gem from President Bush’s news conference today. He was responding to a question about Amnesty International’s recent report about U.S. abuse of war prisoners. I transcribed it after hearing it on the news. “It’s just an absurd…

Last year, after Bill Clinton announced that he had to have quadruple bypass heart surgery, I wondered aloud on this very web site about how long it would take before some right-wing radio boob stated that Clinton deviously timed the…

Go to My ‘Lanta for my latest Podcast. In today’s installment, Phil and I read some of the best and most puzzling recent entries from Atlanta’s Craigslist pages.

I’ve been posting quite a bit to my other blogs lately. Check out My ‘Lanta for posts Atlanta-themed Podcasts and blog entries. Also take a look at Monkeysars for my latest music bloggings.

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