Venial Sin

Oh my HEAD. Remember when I was bitching and moaning about how I’d never have the chance to drink in Karachi, and how there’s no nightlife, and how everything would suck? Well, I was partially right at any rate. Things do still suck, and nightlife is a fairly inaccurate way to describe Karachi’s ‘scene’. However, I did manage to get roaringly pissed last night. As I carried out my obesiances at the altar of the porcelain god, and attempted to [...]

Since I am once again incapable of writing something deep, meaningful, funny, or just plain blah today, I thought I’d attempt to fend off your growing rage, my legion of fans (note: no matter how much you e-mail me, it won’t motivate me to write any faster my dear strangers, so while I appreciate that you want more tales of my sordid life here, shut the hell up). I present, for your edification (naturally), a paean. A hymn. The gay [...]

Did you know that if one searches for “Bobby Briggs” on Google, almost all of the websites that are displayed are NOT in English? I shall explain. I was reading the recap for Smallville on Television Without Pity, in which a character on last week’s episode of the show is continually referred to as “Young Bobby Briggs”. I have no idea what this means, but given the general level of hotness of the young men on Smallville, I figured it [...]

This article is brilliant. I insist you read it immediately. I’ve copied excerpts from the article and posted them (access via the link below), but for the article in its entirety, click the link above. I will, however, warn any hardcore, desperately patriotic Americans that this piece of writing may make you angry or upset. It is, however, extraordinarily valid, and a good comment on how the rest of the world feels about America currently. And why, although people may [...]

Some of you have been e-mailing me to ask why I stopped writing the Mathias story. A couple of reasons: 1) My work as an assistant editor leaves me almost incapable of facing a computer screen at the end of the day. 2) I had to write 4 articles this week alone, totalling just over 10,000 words. My head is about to explode, and I don’t think I’m quite up to sentence construction right now. 3) I had to format [...]

There will be no posts for a few days, since my PC needed to be reformatted. In so doing, I was an idiot, and forgot to back up the Word document in which I’d been writing the story about Mathias. I’m sorry, but I simply don’t have the emotional energy right now to reproduce the 4000-odd words that have just been sent to the digital graveyard. I’ll try and get them all back online in a few days, but I [...]

…and reports of an endothermic reaction in Hell have been confirmed. I just made out with a sixteen year-old. Oh good grief. I shall now go and hide somewhere in a corner until I’m old enough to warrant engaging in such lecherous old man-esque behaviour.

God, it’s incredible. The woman has an uncanny ability to take any conversation or comment, no matter what it’s about, and transform it into a titanic, monstrous, dramatic overture worthy of the Lord of the Rings. No…something even grander in scale. Something that makes Gormenghast look like a cute cottage in the woods, thatched roof and all. My mother is a drama queen. A drama queen who engages in defensive, passive-aggressive behaviour to an extent that would make most drag [...]

A good friend of mine (hi Asad!) sent me–among others–this article from the January 5th issue of The New Yorker. It’s, in the vein of my last dozen or so entries, terribly depressing, but a relatively fair look at Saudi Arabia. I don’t really have anything witty, urbane or even remotely charming to say about this, so just go ahead and read it. It’s relatively shocking, but a great introduction to the Middle East, I think. Also, Pakistan isn’t like [...]

Gangs of ‘New’ Karachi Good grief. Sorry for the strange posts (in succession), but now I’m REALLY creeped out about living in Karachi. I’ve never dealt with this shit in the last 24 years, so I’m wondering if I’ve just been living in a shell, or if this is a load of bullshit.