Cyrus Farivar

God damn. I just talked with this French guy in Japan for a story that I was asked to essentially redo because their stringer didn’t do a good enough job on it, and I was told to record it, and the damn thing didn’t record right through the phone. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem, but they’re doing it in transcript style, instead of normal news style. I only hear my voice. Fuck. It’s 7 pm, and I have to…

I have a pair to this great game that I sadly cannot attend on June 21 (this Monday). $48.50 for the pair (what I paid for them).

Who wants to go see Raiders of the Lost Ark in downtown Oakland on Friday (8 pm) with me for free? Oakland Film Office Summer Festival

So for those of you who missed it last week, check out this link for a hysterical clip (DivX) of Jon Stewart talking about how Ashcroft wouldn’t release a 2002 memo to Congress about the use of torture. Oh, and the Post released the memo today.

A neat article in today’s Times talking about unorthodox protest tactics. My favorite is this group called Axis of Eve, which sells underwear with slogans like: Expose Bush Lick Bush Down on Bush Lick Bush not Oil Ballot Box Axis of Eve Fire Bush Give Bush the Finger Weapon of Mass Seduction My Cherry for Kerry Cream Bush Alright, at the risk of sounding way too perverted, I will buy three pairs to the first three women (or men, too)…

Remembering Reagan

You’re watching the Lakers fall pretty flat against the Pistons in Game 3 and they interrupt the broadcast for a tornado warning. Well, I’m in Chicago until Sunday with my Iranian grandmother, brother and parents for the AIA 2004 National Conference where my Dad is getting a fellowship tomorrow night. And then there’s a black tie dinner on Saturday (Alex, my bro, says it’s $180 a plate?!?!?) Taking the El in from Southside, we headed up the Sears Tower (I’ve…

You rock.

Well, in almost exactly two months I will be starting out at J-school. Our class schedule came out today. We don’t get a lot of choice in what we get to take first semester, with the exception of RWII (Reporting & Writing II), which include classes like “International Reporting,” “Covering Regional Conflicts,” “Social Impact of Mass Media,” “Economics and Financial Reporting I,” “The Art of the Profile,” “Opinion Writing” and many others. My favorite thus far is “Covering Regional Conflicts,”…

Alexandra Polier says that all that nonsense about her having an affair with John Kerry is wrong in today’s Guardian. I met Kerry for the first time in January 2001, in Davos, Switzerland. I was living in Manhattan, stop-gapping at a public-relations firm and wondering if my application to the Columbia University graduate school of journalism was going to be accepted. At heart, I was a politics junkie. I would scour the Economist, cutting out articles for my “current affairs”…