Whitebergs noter

Eller, det vil sige … det er de faktisk. Reason.tv undrer sig på glimrende 9 minutter.

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Er netop kommet hjem fra to uger på agriturismo i Lazio-provinsen. Sidder på altanen og drikker Lavazza Qualita Rossa fra den nyindkøbte Bialetti caffittiera. Det var de gode ting, der kunne tages med hjem. Men pastaen blev i Italien. Suk. Sikken en livskvalitet. Sikken en nydelse. Jeg kan aldrig spise ravioli igen, med mindre den [...]

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Min gode ven Eske Troelstrup udgiver i dag sin debutroman Bortset fra himlen på forlaget Athene, der er en del af Lindhart & Ringhoff. Romanen har fået en god modtagelse i Weekendavisen, der kalder den en “generationsroman classic“. Det er en af den slags eviggyldige fortællinger, hvor unge mænd i København drikker, drømmer og forelsker [...]

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Danish Libertarian Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard in a warm portrait of his first encounter with The Land of the Free which coincided almost magically with Regan’s famous speech at Brandenburger Tor in 1987. It’s in Danish but the whole speech is there and it’s still very moving and powerful. Reagan continues to grow on me, I must [...]

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I’m making some experiments with my picasa-webfolder. Here’s a picture from my great trip to Iran. It’s from what is probably one of the most beautiful cities in the world, Esfahan:

Fra Iran Greatest…

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There’s a poetic irony here somewhere: Iran’s hardline president Ahmadinejad under fire for kissing the hand of his old teacher. Actually, there was no skin contact, but it caused an uproar just the same. Danish news here, international here and a blog comment here.
More on the dress-code crackdown. Will the president now see how it’s [...]

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My friend in Tehran Syma Sayyah writes for Peyvand, an English-language site with news about Iran. Syma writes mainly about everyday things going on in Tehran, and her latest article is about a NGO helping hearing impaired children.
It hasn’t even been two weeks since I returned from Iran, and already it seems so far away. [...]

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The times they are a-changing… as always. The Velvet Underground used to be the nastiest, sexiest and most scary music money could buy. But last week when I took the Air France Airbus home from Tehran, they played Femme Fatale on the speaker system, like it was just another piece by Vivaldi. Granted it’s among [...]

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Speaking of hejabs. Here’s a site that makes clear why hejabs are needed in the Middle East: traffic stopping, cardiac arrest inducing Lebanese Beauties. Danish girls often don’t have much hair to show, which is why they don’t cover it up – what’s the point anyway? Arab, Persian and Jewish girls on the other hand [...]

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Last week when we were in Iran, there was a rumor going round, that the police were going to crack down on girls not wearing their hejab modestly enough (lots of Iranian girls wear it only to the middle of the top of their head, with lots of hair – sometimes carefully coiffed – visible). [...]

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