sick leave
I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather and have been slacking off at home, but will try to get back to blogging sometime soon.
I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather and have been slacking off at home, but will try to get back to blogging sometime soon.
Okay, so I have finally got around to moving to MT. Please excuse the mess while I rebuild everything and add new stuff.
Film production in Morocco had been doing well in the last few years, but was damaged by the events of September 11. Things seem to be looking up, though. The Kingdom is trying to promote the Marrakech Film Festival, where Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and David Lynch will be guests of honor. Hopefully that will attract more filming contracts.
My friend Carrie will be reading from her novel-in-progress at the Barnes and Noble at the Grove (3rd and Fairfax) this Saturday. Come support a local writer!
My e-mails this morning included a note from a company looking for Arabic linguists. The message started like this:
“Together we’ll vanish villainous terrorism and radiate a blooming impregnable devout world peace. Do you speak Arabic…? Do you have a command of its local dialects…? Do you want to know how you may play a global roll and forge the path to a higher economical future for your self…? If you’ve answered, ” YES ” to the above, and you would like to find the means to achieve this desired goal; you should read the following [an ad for a company hiring linguists.] Shall you find your self or anyone you know with a solid determination and a steadfast belief to be an active member in our relentless effort to eradicate terrorism and bring it to extension? And shall you desire to place your mark on our history in the making, Swiftly contact us and we will be grateful to welcome you aboard.”
I especially liked the alliteration (“vanish villainous”), although if terrorism could vanish on its own, we wouldn’t need to fight it, now would we? … And I really had no idea that world peace could be “radiated” like a laser beam and, furthermore, that this world peace laser could be anthropomorphized to be “devout”. I wonder what its religious beliefs are, this world peace? And what of my “roll” in all this? But the kicker was the conclusion of the hiring ad: they actually want to bring terrorism to “extension,” instead of “extinction.” Is it any wonder we are losing this fight to “eradicate terrorism”? Lord help us.
The new issue of Zoetrope-All Story is up.