Rosie T.'s blog

guess who

Rosie T. — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:30:17 +0000

the guess who were a wonderful canadian band in the late sixties and early seventies. they are most famous for their song 'american woman' but they had a lot of other hits. one of them is very beautiful, and very sad. i wanted to post it. it has nothing to do with my feelings for all of you. but it's something i have to post

what is the color of love

Rosie T. — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:58:26 +0000

what is the color of love
(range eshgh)

to everything turn turn turn,

there is a season--the byrds

there's a black wind that blows in you

above a black river that flows in you

beside a black tree that grows in you

and you warned me about this black wind

how you don't undeerstand it

and you cannot control it

Our Generation (for nazy kaviani)

Rosie T. — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:21:19 +0000

last december nazy wrote an article called "my generation."

it actually began as a post on jahanshah's photo essay "daughter of the revolution."

When Nothing Is Sacred Except the Secular

Rosie T. — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:08:59 +0000

No matter how long I take, how hard try to research it, organize, it, write it, it'll always be inadequate. So maybe the best way to write this blog is to just copy the post I just wrote swept up by the moment to Faryarm (a Bahai) on my "Imagine a World Without War!" blog on folk singer Buffy Ste. Marie. (As most of you know I am not a Bahai, I have no particular creed at all).

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To Faryarrm:

Imagine a World Without War!

Rosie T. — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:55:50 +0000

Buffy Ste. Marie is a native American, she was born on a reservation, she was orphaned, she went on to earn a PhD in Fine Arts and to become one of the leading folk singers of the 60's who inspired the anti-war movement. I have been wanting to post this video for a while. It is one of the more moving anti-war documents I have ever seen. But I didn't even know until just now that in the 1970's she became a Bahai. This is serendipitous. I am not surprised.

Here she sings "Universal Soldier" at a rally for Vietnam veterans.

graveyards of iran

Rosie T. — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:27:06 +0000

for the people on the Shapour Bakhtiar blog, for the khar who helps me carry heavy burdens up mountains, and for all of you.

Watch: YouTube vide

The Shapour Bakhtiar Blog

Rosie T. — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:02:45 +0000

The Shapour Bakhtiar blog (most discussed) was just closed for good reasons. I was a participant on this thread but I had to stop for two days and it closed before I could make a couple of comments to the bloggers. I think it was a very important thread. But I haven't really been able to read the numerous comments of the past couple of days so I want to just say what I thought was most important about the discussion as I left it:

--David ET's reminder not to get caught in the past. Do something now. Human rights campaigns are an excellent idea

Shah

Rosie T. — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:38:31 +0000

not yet...not yet...not ready yet...too many questions...too many thoughts...thinking, thinking...about the blog on shapour bakhtiar...and ebi and khar and souri and q and jamshid and notanon...and david et...and about ali...ali p.

Shah

"Some are born great. Some become great. Others have greatness thrust upon them."

Thinking...thinking...about the Shah.

The Long Goodbye

Rosie T. — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:51:18 +0000

Okay so my leaving spurred a bunch of conversations I can't leave hanging. They are diverse: one is political, one is about linguistics, and one is about clarifying some misunderstandings about my meaning and intentions in various things I've said on previous blogs. So for now this is my tentative update on the long goodbye (those who don't care, you don't have to tell me. This blog is not intended for you. Obviously).

Fascists Everywhere On Iranian.com!

Rosie T. — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:01:13 +0000

(This is not my "goodbye" blog.)

TODAY I JUST DISCOVERED THAT BOTH SIDES ON THE ISsUE OF BOMBING IRAN HAVE AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF COMMON GROUND: THEY ARE BOTH FASCISTS ACORDING TO EACH OTHER!

Since You ASKED, Am I Leaving?

Rosie T. — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:19:18 +0000

I AM DOING EXACTLY WHAT I ANNOUNCED ON MY BLOG CALLED "THE 'DRAMA QUEEN'" DECIDES" (can't paste link, track it...) in RESPONSE to Qumar's blog asking me to stay. I re-thought it. This is the PLAN I announced:

zan o mard mard o zan

Rosie T. — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:41:25 +0000

When I entered this blogging community last October people often used to ask me "Why Iran?" It's strange. Nobody ever asks me that anymore. They just say "Rosie, you're one of us."

But they used to ask me that question a lot. And there were so many reasons why. But they were all really part of one big reason, like so many facets of one brilliant diamond..And so it was very hard to answer. But one of these facets of this diamond was linguistics.

Mahmood and me

Rosie T. — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:59:23 +0000

I have been thinking about Mahmood today. Actually I think about Mahmood quite often. I know, so do you.

I don't think Mahmood and I could ever be friends. I doubt we'd get along. And somehow I suspect that if I lived in Tehran, I would call Evin Prison home. But that's not so much what I've been thinking about today as I've been thinking about Mahmood.

Who Really Runs This Website? REVISED

Rosie T. — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:37:53 +0000

Democracy or javidocracy? Not jj's problem anymore, our call.

(Note: This blog talks about moderation because last night that was so on my mind but it also applies to issues of censorship and bis, as well as any issue pertaining to the actual systems of just running the website-RG)

The Goldfish

Rosie T. — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:36:05 +0000

I have been thinking about the goldfish. The kind of goldfish who swims up to me every now and then, could be anywere on the website, and says you know Rosie I try to read everything you write. No I didn't know. That kind of goldfish And then they swim away.

But they are not anonymous.

bezaie's mosaferaan, the mirror

Rosie T. — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:36:54 +0000

at the end of bezaie's mosaferaan, at the funeral that was supposed to be a wedding, but the bride's sister and her family and one other person died on the way in a car crash--they were bringing the family mirror that was supposed to be used at the wedding, an old old persian custom--every class, political persuasion and walkof life in iran is assembled at the funeral, and it is grief that unites them. grief.

nebula

Rosie T. — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:56:21 +0000

once i saw an episode of star trek

you know the ones with captain picard

and i don't remember exactly

because it was a long time ago

but the enterprise was passing a nebula

and then they heard a distress signal

there was a spaceship caught in the nebula

but they couldn't go in and help it

because they'd get trapped in the nebula too

and then counselor troy the empath

started to hear a voice

For what it's worth

Rosie T. — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:04:50 +0000

This blog concerns everybody on this website and the purpose of the website. I am only using the Israel/Palestine issue as an example. For what it's worth.

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The Israel/Palestine issue was very ugly here this week. The "discussion" was as ugly as the conflict itself. .

dust in the wind

Rosie T. — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:48:23 +0000

there's a young lady on this site and i asked her a question a couple of days ago and

she likes to answer things with music so she gave me a link to the song

dust in the wind. and it

really didn't have anything to do with my question but it had everything

to do with my question. and i

know this song very well, it's from my generation.

i know it says dust in the wind all we are is dust in the wind

everything is dust in the wind

To Everyone On the Pallywood Thread:(revised)

Rosie T. — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:20:37 +0000

It's all getting too convoluted, too complicated,. And succintness is not my strong suit. But I will try.

Please just SCAN my comments on Pallywood. SCAN my blog on War. Please READ my comment to Mehdi Mazloom on Palllywood. Then:

Please start a conversation here on this thread the Israel/Palestine conflict, on ANY aspect you want in which: