Rockstars dress in red dresses. Originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
It wasn’t enough that I’ve been getting emails about children I never knew I had (Bethany is still quite busy unleashing her slacker tendencies, by the way). Now I’m receiving emails from the Office of the Governor…of the State of Kansas. This is better than Bethany, […]
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Friday, February 2nd: ‘Rockstars Wear Red’ Day
January 30th, 2007 · No Comments
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Catch you on the flip side
June 25th, 2006 · No Comments
Originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
It’s over, but right now I’m too exhausted (and sunburnt) to clearly reflect on the experience. A huge gratitude-filled “Thank you” to the superstar SI, who called me Friday afternoon from the East Coast to wish us good luck. Photos and lengthy descriptions coming soon. Click the photo above, or check the […]
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why don’t the newscasters cry/when they read about people who die?
May 8th, 2005 · No Comments
Last night, on a whim, my sister and I rented and watched Promises, a powerful and compelling documentary that follows seven Palestinian and Israeli children over the course of several years, between 1995-2000. I’d heard about this documentary for years, but had somehow never gotten around to watching it until last night. In 2002 alone, […]
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rebel and a liberator, find a way to be a skater …
January 5th, 2005 · No Comments
rebel and a liberator, find a way to be a skater
Welcome to the first day of Winter Quarter 2005. Aww Lord, here we go again.
And the post title has nothing to do with anything, just so you know. But I am easily amused, and this we also know.
Real updates coming soon to a weblog near […]
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we are hella paranoid, yes we are I could almos…
December 25th, 2004 · No Comments
we are hella paranoid, yes we are
I could almost swear that the girl who cashed my paycheck for me at the Bank of America in my hometown yesterday morning waved, “Bye, Yaz!” to me as I turned away from her counter on my way out. Neither her name nor her face were even vaguely familiar. […]
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i voted today, and i hope you do, too. "To be h…
November 2nd, 2004 · No Comments
i voted today, and i hope you do, too.
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. […]
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i live to amuse you, abuse you, infuse you with th…
October 22nd, 2004 · No Comments
i live to amuse you, abuse you, infuse you with the weirdness
S: Yasmine, you’re such a display case.
Yasmine: Uhh, okay. And what’s that supposed to mean?
S: I don’t know, you’re just always so entertaining to look at.
I wonder if it was the red pants. Or maybe it’s the fact that I’ve been wearing real, actual […]
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the impromptu We Are the World rendition of ‘Tala …
October 9th, 2004 · No Comments
the impromptu We Are the World rendition of ‘Tala al Badru Alayna’
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the diwan
October 9th, 2004 · No Comments
the diwan
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help out a beautiful cause, fi sabeelillah Buy …
September 10th, 2004 · No Comments
help out a beautiful cause, fi sabeelillah
Buy a t-shirt and be a rockstar just like meeeeeeeee.
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one year, and nothing’s changed
March 17th, 2004 · No Comments
A young woman named Layla Kaiksow periodically sends out long, detailed emails to those of us who have asked her to stay in touch while she volunteers and does research in Palestine. It is fitting - in a bitter, ironic way - that her email received yesterday on the one year anniversary of Rachel Corrie’s […]
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and it just never ends “This is to show our rej…
March 12th, 2004 · No Comments
and it just never ends
“This is to show our rejection of violence and our solidarity with the families (of the dead)…”
[via AnneCentral]
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an evening of recitation and praise This is a s…
March 4th, 2004 · No Comments
an evening of recitation and praise
This is a short video clip of a recitation of Imam al-Busiri’s Burdah* (Poem of the Cloak) at Zaytuna Institute. Absolutely beautiful. The reciter is Shaykh Murtaza, who heads a masjid in San Francisco. I heard him recite the Burdah in person at Zaytuna’s Evening of Gratitude tribute dinner in […]
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look who’s talking – OR, conversations from the ca…
February 22nd, 2004 · No Comments
look who’s talking – OR, conversations from the cal computer lab
D: why are you on both screen names?
D: are you talking to your strange buddies?
Yasmine: yeah, like YOU
Yasmine: nahh, i have the beta version of AIM
Yasmine: i’ve linked both my sn’s
Yasmine: so i sign on ‘em both at once
Yasmine: or i sign on ‘em both, […]
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Happy birthday to my favorite (and the one and onl…
February 20th, 2004 · No Comments
Happy birthday to my favorite (and the one and only) Lean Mean Bean Fooseball Machine!
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