I didn’t go to the Showboat Swing at Kitsilano yesterday. I don’t think if it ever happened because of the bad weather. Now I am getting the withdrawal symptoms! Damn it! I need to watch some follows swivel, jump and jive.
“Why don’t you do right!” the Jessica Rabbit version
Aren’t you sick of this song yet? good! here is another version. As a kid I’ve always liked cartoons specially this one. Heaven knows I still do! I must say the way she sways around and treats all the men like puppies is kinda cute!
Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption
Ever wonder where your empty water bottles, old cars, cellphones, and plastic bags end up?
Please visit this website and get shocked by the images: Chris Jordan Photography
We have more Categories on Tazzu now
Our community of 145 people on www.Tazzu.com needed to become more diverse because it is too Technology focused right now, so we decided to make it more inviting for people of different backgrounds.
So we created new categories such as: Photography, Graphic Design, Makeup Artistry, Music, Theater, Creative Writing, Journalism, and .. . you may as well check it out for yourself.
Tazzu members are sweet hearts, they talk about everything under the sun, exchange business tips, and answer each other’s questions and those who can, meet up for coffee or beer. We like the diversity of our community, and would like to keep it that way.
Membership is free everyday is a party and everybody is invited. You don’t have to be from Vancouver, or Canada or North America. If you like to share what you know and learn from others what you didn’t now, you are always welcome here.
We are also very tough on trolls and spammers, We grill them on BBQ and feed them to the fish in the sea.
One of the greatest things about being a Canadian is that you get to celebrate all the happy events coming from your culture and other cultures. I am a Canadian who was born in Iran, so we not only celebrate Christmas and New Year on January 1st, we also celebrate the Persian New Year.
In Canada every event such as this one is yet another excuse to get together with friends and have a great time, regardless of what race or culture they are coming from.
Norouz means “The New Day” which is basically the celebration of first day of sprint according to the Persian calendar. Some believe that celebration of Norouz goes back to more than 15000 years ago with pagan origins. ( Who thinks earth is only 6000 years old? )
Norouz is not really a religious event, although in many families in Iran it has been tainted by Islamic elements such as the Qoran book. Reality is that government of Iran has been trying so hard to make Norouz less significant compare to other Islamic religious events. In fact many people still get arrested for celebrating the “Chaharshanbe Suri” ( Celebration of the night before the last Wednesday of the year ) which involves making fire and jumping over it. These were all events that date back long before the time Arabs took over Iran over 1400 years ago, and force people to convert to Islam.
Celebration of Norouz and last Wednesday of the Year have strong roots in the hearts of Persians and no religious government can make those traditions disappear.
What you see in this picture is the “Haftsin Table” ( The Seven S table ). That means there are at least 7 elements present which their names start with letter “S” in Farsi. The items symbolically correspond to seven creations and holy immortals protecting them, for example:
Other present symbols are:
Blogged with Flock
If you haven’t heard of Freddie Mercury’s music ( Queen ) you don’t know about Rock’n Roll. Today I stumbled upon Freddie Mercury’s bio on Wikipedia. I thought certain aspects of his life were pretty interesting:
“he earned a Diploma in Art and Graphic Design at Ealing Art College.”
“He made occasional references to being Persian in interviews, but his parents are both Indian Parsis. Due to their Persian descent, it’s relatively common for Parsis to refer to themselves as “Persian”.”
“According to the January 2004 edition of Cat Fancy, Mercury possessed a great fondness for cats, at one point owning as many as ten. Mercury’s personal assistant, Peter Freestone, wrote that his boss “put as much importance on them [his cats] as any human life.” The album Mr. Bad Guy and the song “Delilah” were dedicated to cats, and Mercury wore clothes featuring cats in videos and on album covers.”
Here is the link, read it for yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mercury
Blogged with Flock
“Of all God’s creatures,there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash.That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.” - Mark Twain
Blogged with Flock
