A protest has been planned on Sunday May 4th, 2008, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM at the Egyptian Consulate in downtown Chicago at 500 N. Michigan Ave.
Demonstrators are assembling to protest Egypt’s State run repression of workers and opposition groups. Here’s the description on the facebook event.
Egyptian security forces arrested over 400 opposition activists across […]

Monday night I came home from being out of town and when I opened the door to my apartment I saw basically what I expected…a mess! I knew it would be there because I have one room mate (Special K) who’s a bitter and angry person who suddenly decided that cleaning up after himself was […]

I was sitting with the boys celebrating my Egyptian-ness (i.e. sitting around, drinking tea, smoking sheesha and being lazy) and we got to talking about friends living and working in Saudi Arabia or as I like to call it, “The Place Where Happiness Goes To Die”. (No apologies so dont ask.) Anyways we were chatting […]

I was walking downtown when I saw this “bum” and this sign…

I walked up to him and said, “hey I’ll give you a dollar if you let me take ur picture.” He said sure and then revealed that he wasnt really a bum, just a “traveler” who was trying to collect money to go to […]

Sunday I was in the mall and stumbled into this disaster…

Yes that shirt says “SINGLE” with his phone number underneath.
When I see something like this my first thoughts are, “What a colossal Dork-asaurus” quickly followed by, “I must take a picture and show everyone I know”. This guy either….
A) Has an awesome sense of humor
or
B) […]

Yesterday I went to a breakfast/brunch place in the city called Toast, I’ve been there before but I’m surprised every time I eat there. The presentation is amazing and I can honestly say the taste matches the presentation.
I had the stuffed french toast, stuffed with chocolate and mascarpone…Amazing!

There’s actually two more pieces of french toast […]