Street Fighting in New York

Me and my boys throwing it down in NYC



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Mini-Tree

Experts recommend to start planning for and thinking about the holiday's starting in late September, mid-October. This, they claim, provides ample time to think about what you want to get and keep your eye out for the best deals on the years hottest gifts and most lavish decorations. Although I suppose I am a bit behind schedule I finally got around to buying a tree. Now, I sadly must admit that I sold out to a fake tree but under the circumstances, I'm sure you will understand.

Here she is, standing proudly at 1ft, 1inch, this little guy has brought so much light into our lives.



Additionally, I ventured out into the world of popcorn decorations:

Step one: Pop popcorn. I recommend staying away from the butter and salty flavors because it tends to attract buggies!



Step two: Thread the popcorn with sewing thread and needle. Make sure the popcorn is cold and I would recommend it even be a bit on the stale side.



Step three: Carefully wrap around tree. Add white lights and a glittery gold bow at the top.



Optional: Presents wrapped in brown paper bags for a complete classic look !

Winter Wonderland!

Saba's mom, the lovely Khlaeh Gulhan arrived on Friday and she brought us lots of goodies. And she took a picture to prove it !



We went and saw the Nutcracker, a Moeel/Khoshab annual tradition (that just started this year!) It was a freezing night! Many speculated snow !!






And they were riiiight! We woke up this morning to the first SNOW of the season!!!
Here is a video I took in the morning from my bedroom window. Look closely and you can see the flakes falling !

Happy Anniversary!

I think most of my blog readers already know about or are on SeeTheCook.com
If not, let me break it down for you. Two of my friends and I started a website and I've been waiting till this article came out to share it with you.

So read all about it !
The aricle was my written by my friend and fellow blogger iPouya




On another note, today also happens to be the one year anniversary of Writin' Dirty so I'd like to take this moment to thank all my folks for choosing my blog over Facebook sometimes when you dont want to do your homework ! This year "we" are looking forward to great adventures locally and internationally, most importantly, we will actually have heat in our apartment this winter!!
Pizza Party to celebrate in the office tomorrow !
As a homage to the 2006-2007 year I take you back to my first post

Gypsy

Member when I was an un-sexy M&M last year? Well, I still refuse to subscribe to "sexy" halloween costume.
This year I was a gypsy. Woohoo !!







Happy Halloweeny Ya'll

Baby Me

Here are some pictures of pictures from my family's album in Iran:

Boz

In the Persian language Boz means Goat. My mom likes to use the phrase as a term of endearment. She also happens to be somewhat of a tree-hugger, a hippie if you will. And this past summer when my family went to Norway and Sweden to go hiking and camping she ran into an old college comrade from the pre-revolutionary days. An exiled goat that went too North.

Ladies and Gents, my mom and a boz.

White Dress

Caviar Moet, my soon to blow up and get hella rich roomate, is working on her senior thesis at Parsons . Its a collection of bridal gowns for the hottest and most fabulous brides to be.
So, because I have the body of a runway model, she asks me to try on her dresses to see if they will fit.

Here is one that she is working on! Now in the real one she will use way better fabric. This is the test run to figure out the fitting and patterns etc. Isn't she lovely???





I will be following her progression all year so check back for updates ya'll !

Dancing in NY

In August one of my BFF's Bahareh visited me in New York !
Here's what we did:



Here's the original Matt. I think ours is better!

Small World and Ethnic Ambiguity

Same button nose, round eyes and pouty lips on every doll.
Hmmmm...
I'll spare you the social commentary because I don't care! But I'll tell you one thing, if you think the Small World ride goes slow, you have never tried to snap photos during. Blurrrrrrrr

Wax On, Wax Off

Today was the Global Village Festival in Irvine. I went cause my mom was invited to do ceramics wheel demonstrations. But in the meantime my brother and I wandered around checking out all the ethnic booths and local businesses taking advantage of mass advertising.

Among them was a continuous karate performance by students from the local chapter of the karate school. Here's a picture of the finale of the show that makes Ralph Macchio look like a chump. Ha-Ya! Fool snapped both boards at the same time:

Pumpkin Patch

As the Summer slowly ends and the Fall creeps in I start to get excited for the pumpkin flavored treats that flood coffee shops and restaurants! Every Fall my family buys a pumpkin, empty's out the seeds, washes them and bets on how many seeds there are. Here's my brother, a few years back, counting the results.



Usually I lose. My guesstimation skills are minimal.

Without telling the rest of the family my brother throws a few seeds in the backyard in the hopes that something will grow.
This year, it did. Check out this little dooby that skooted its way out of the land.
My folks, who are losing most of their senses, didn't even notice this bad boy till it was almost full-grown.

I <3 Zack Morris!

Who says Irvine is not cool ? How amazing are these pictures?

I Bumped My Head

This evening, after leaving dinner my friends, we gawked as several fire fighters rescued a poor kitty from a SoHo tree. As I was rambling on and on about how hot and manly fire-fighters are, I found myself in a head on collision (literally) with a telephone pole at in front of an entire row of outdoor diners (who really enjoyed it).

As I covered my forehead and ran away, it began to grow at an alarming rate. I literally felt the bump grow like Elmer Fudd on the Looney Toons cartoons when an anvil falls on his head and a large lump immediately pops out. You know, its near death experiences like these that make one really appreciate the litthe things in life.





































After about an hour of ice:


















Go ahead, laugh it out.
Cause if this ever happens to you in front of me, I'd laugh too.

Dana Discovery Center

They should just give me my Oscar right now. I took a two day workshop about video editing and had to make a 1 minute (exactly) movie about whatever our teacher assigned. We got the visitor center next to Harlem Meer in Central Park North.
So here it is, world premier of my first SHORT. (My other film was LONG) Plus my partner woudn't let me be the star, so this is my directorial comeback.



Coming Soon: other stuff.