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Latest Koonj entries are up at shabanamir.com/koonj NOW

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 01:50:08 +0000

teflon, coke, bottled water - & spiritual worlds does nature make families? the frugal FOB we missed you today, ahmed Whoa - what just happened? Move to shabanamir.com/koonj NOW!

Move to shabanamir.com/koonj NOW!

Sat, 18 Feb 2006 01:03:08 +0000

I’m moving there! So I waffled and waited about moving to my domain, right. And then it occurred to me that the number of blog entries at both koonj.blogspot.com and koonj.wordpress.com are multiplying. Let’s face it - I am nothing if not prolific. Masha’allah. Okay, I really mean, [Blush], I have no life to speak of. (And AbulJude, [...]

Yep - it’s all happening from ONE computer!

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:36:08 +0000

You suspected there was a conspiracy? There! Left to Right: Koonj (Shabana); Akram’s Razor (Svend); Qunoot/Fall of Icarus (Zahir) and Alt-Muslim (Shahed), weaving the muslim Web together. Credits: Shahed’s nifty graphics; Shabana’s camera and idea

Practice Pre-Set Tasks of Predictable Responsibility

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:54:08 +0000

I don’t think Chhoti is going to like cooking. Or maybe she doesn’t want me too cook. Everytime I cook, I get this nasty constant poke in my right side. “Stop that, ammi, just stop it, I hate cooking, stop it, stop it, stop it …” It actually hurts. You know that bumper sticker Practice [...]

random thoughts of the day

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:41:08 +0000

There’s this woman who works at the cafe where I spend every minute of my life (on my laptop) that I don’t spend at home. She’s very nice, and everyday asks me exactly the same questions. (Note, she’s an immigrant and speaks verry little English). Khadija: “How are you?” me: Alhamdulillah. Then she says, “You okay?” (I suspect [...]

Iranian police clashes with Sufis

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:44:08 +0000

What’s the world coming to?

diamonds on valentine’s day

Wed, 15 Feb 2006 04:50:08 +0000

One thing that bothers me - every V-day, Christmas, wedding season - is how the diamond industry plays upon the connections between gendered consumption, class, status, and romance. I’m proud to say that Svend never gave me anything in diamonds. Allahu akbar! No, I don’t think that’s something to be embarrassed about. Inshallah, if some day [...]

latest screwy search phrases

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:39:08 +0000

Danya has a really great Judeo-Muslim appropriate Valentine’s Day card. By the way, Svend remembered to bring me a card. I mean, I’m not happy with the commercialization and all that, but when you’ve been married a few years, a card is a nice thing to get, and I still get happy about it. But man - [...]

crying at “evita”

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:13:08 +0000

So I cry at movies. I cried at the end of Monsters, Inc. I cried at the end of Titanic (I am more ashamed of that than Monsters, Inc.) I cried the other day at Evita. No, not when Eva dies. I cried at the sequence where Eva is commanding a crowd of the populace [...]

fraudulent charges on our bank account

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:38:08 +0000

Please pray that the bank and the law can catch the chor-ka-bacha who fraudulently charged our account with $600+ to some kind of wireless phone business and so we can escape the charge. What terrible timing too.

Top 10 Peeves

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:35:08 +0000

Aisha and mommyblogr did this, so I figured I’d follow suit, considering I am clearly more peevish these days. The Interruptors: People who start chatting with you when you are working on your laptop with your earphones on. And when you take off the earphones, they’re saying, “Where did you get this laptop? It’s so small! [...]

ahmed hussain

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 07:48:08 +0000

Amina C. hosted a gathering of Ahmed’s friends at her house on Friday. I had had a bad day (see my last post), but I just had to go. I’m glad I did. Until I went, Ahmed’s passing was unreal, like a story. When I got there, it felt like I had just gotten to a [...]

the gestational diabetes diet

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 07:10:08 +0000

So, around January 28th, my glucose results from the glucose tolerance test went to the doctor’s office. Dr M. saw them soon after. She did not give me any conclusive information on whether I was gestational diabetic or not. Ten days later, I saw the nurse and she says I’m GD. The other doctor Dr N. [...]

Cross-cultural marriage

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 04:46:08 +0000

(Svend goes out to get a haircut with Mohamed the barber nearby. As soon as he leaves, it starts snowing heavily.) Svend returns, bedraggled, half an hour later. Me: (triumphantly) “Sar mundaatey hi auley paray.” * Gora husband looks at me blankly. Perfectly appropriate joke falls on deaf ears. You had to be there. *”Sar mundatey hi auley paray”=It started [...]

of “accidental” shootings, bombings, and so on

Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:36:07 +0000

Dick Cheney accidentally shot a fellow hunter. He thought it was a bird [replace with weapon of mass destruction] and it was just Harry [read: a bunch of poor brown folks].