Articles
Clippings
- Embarrassing Report About Egypt’s Involvement in the Ceasefire Deal
- Aron Flam and Henrik Jönsson
- “Choose Life, not Death”
- At The Gym. Part 1
- Sweden’s Public Radio Broadcaster’s Documentary About Detransitioning
- Niqab and Hijab Are Onto Something
- Translation of Radwa El-Sherbiny’s Monologue on Terrible Partners
- Ballin’ by Snoop and Pharrell
- On Workaholism
- How Gaza Could Trigger a Regional War
- Why Did Israeli Spyware Fail?
- “The World Is Turned Upside Down”
- Polling Gazans
- Good morning
- Rabbi Manis Friedman on the Proportionality of War
- Gazans and Hamaa
- Rape and Sexual Abuse on October 7
- Learning Milestone II
- شارع محمد علي.. ايه ده؟
- Babylon Bee. HOT SAUCE
- Henrik Jönsson Saws Social Democrats on immigration
- Louise Perry on Feminism
- “My Son’s Head for $10,000”
- Hossam Bahgat on the Church and Society
- Cutting Through The Russophobic Noise
- “Questions about the Old Testament”
- “I” in Norwegian!
- On Fasting Holy Lent
- Chappelle on Lil Nas X
- Elegant and intelligent podcast footnotes
- Love this Photo
- People simply empty out
- Yusuf Islam on Music and Religion
- Film Doesn’t Always Have to Make Sense
- Dan Pink: Science of Motivation
Clippings
Critique
- Aron Flam and Henrik Jönsson
- كلام للرجالة
- On Workaholism
- How Gaza Could Trigger a Regional War
- Good morning
Culture
- Aron Flam and Henrik Jönsson
- “Choose Life, not Death”
- Sweden’s Public Radio Broadcaster’s Documentary About Detransitioning
- The Sh’ma Israel
- شارع محمد علي.. ايه ده؟
- Babylon Bee. HOT SAUCE
- Henrik Jönsson Saws Social Democrats on immigration
- Louise Perry on Feminism
- Katt Williams 🤯
Debriefs
Essays
- The Process and the Craft
- Hamba Kahle, Siya
- كلام للرجالة
- Captain My Captain 💔
- مصر بالنسبة لي
- When The Relationship Ended
- A Letter to Immigrant Parents
- An Examination of the Private, Personal, and Public
- I Was At The Beach
- Liking One Person and Liking Them Intensely
- Inside A Bitter Artist There May Be A Basic Person
- Fret Not, My Heart
- Looking Back on the Colories Series
- My Strained Relationship with Software Development
- On Fantasy and Romantic Relationships with Others
- Recovering from a Freshly Ended Relationship
- 9 Ways of Being for Men Who Have Been Looking for Love For a Long Time
- The Job Search as Fire
- On the Rejection of IM Read Receipts
- A Letter to Jennifer Aniston
- On Living
- Hello. It’s Me. You’re Googling Me ahead of An Interview.
- Keep Your Eyes Peeled
- Dear Now Married,
- On Lady Macbeth
- The Lies of Marriage for Middle-Income Children
- The Dream of Travelling to a Far-away Identity
- Violence lived is violence wrought.
- When ill-considered street semantics turn into acts of destruction and murder
Exploration
- Captain My Captain 💔
- Translation of Radwa El-Sherbiny’s Monologue on Terrible Partners
- On Workaholism
- A Letter to Immigrant Parents
- I Was At The Beach
- One Year Ago
- Bury Me in the Water
- Making Bella
- A Midnight Gem by the Beach
- Singing Again
- Looking Back on the Doodle Challenge
- Looking Back on the Colories Series
- Making Cut-out Animation Courtesy of Terry Gilliam
- Homemade Baba Ghanouj
- Under the Bridge…
Fact-checking
Faith
- Niqab and Hijab Are Onto Something
- The Sh’ma Israel
- A Letter to Immigrant Parents
- Hossam Bahgat on the Church and Society
- “Questions about the Old Testament”
- On Fasting Holy Lent
Film
- A Letter to Immigrant Parents
- Bury Me in the Water
- Making Bella
- Most Weird and Most Excellentest of All Animations
- Episode 10 of Colories
- A first stop-motion film
- One-line Review – “Hail, Caesar!”
- The Pointless Furor over “The Beauty of Roh” (حلاوة روح)
- OLR – “Where the Wild Things Are”
- OLR – “Black Book”
- OLR – “Standing Firm”
- OLR – “A Mighty Heart”
- OLR – “A Case of Murder”
- “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest”
- “Doubt”
- “August”
- Exploring Woody Allen in OLRs – Part 2
- “The Last Temptation of Christ”
- Exploring Woody Allen in OLR’s – Part 1
- OLR – “The Girl Who Played With Fire”
- OLR – “Cadillac Records”
- OLR – “Green Zone”
- OLR – “Sex, Lies, and Videotape”
- OLR – “Confessions of a Gambler”
- OLR – “The Kids Are Alright”
- OLRs – from Another Delta Flight
- OLRs – from A Delta Flight
- OLR – “Inception”
- OLR – “The Boondock Saints” & “The Boondock Saints II”
- OLR – “Burn After Reading”
- OLR – “Rachel Getting Married”
- From a Line Comes a Idea, Comes a Film
- Writing with Victor
- OLR – “Quantum Solace”
- OLR – “Funny People”
- Introducing One Line Reviews
- King George and I
- Armenian Genocide
- An Actor’s Actor
Film
Humor
Identity
Journalism
- FHM Press Conference 9 July 2020
- FHM pressträff – 9 July 2020
- Difference between government and private sector vaccines
- From Idea to [the start of a] Story
- Police raid on #Alexandra Wednesday morning uncovers little
- #Jeppestown raid targeted ‘criminal elements’ of xenophobic attacks
- Some government uptake from TomTom data and insights
- [interactive map] Top hijacking and smash ‘n’ grab hotspots in Gauteng
- [webdoc] Protest Chants of the EFF
- Following the Jeppestown evictions
- [Updated] Understanding the #JeppeProtest and Jeppestown evictions
- Ahead of ‘March Against Crime’ on Friday, local councilor explains why the march
- R260k in revenue lost every day with Rea Vaya buses off the roads
- SA consumers drive social capital from public to private sector
- South Africa was partner with CIA in rendition program – Open Society
- UAE labels 85 organisations and movements worldwide as ‘terrorist groups’
- Curated Multimedia Report using Storify
- Quarterly employment figures show increase in job creation
- Human Rights Watch release report on Rab’aa massacre in August 2013
- Videos and Audio from Yesterday’s Protest
- Stockholm Iraqi, Syrian, Lebanese call on government to stop IS violence against Christians
- Fact-Checking: ‘Hamas is Israel’s Frankenstein’
- ABC Australia’s Stone Cold Justice report misses the mark
- Gauteng turnout lowest in 5 years despite campaigning
- Youth vote depended on education and party appeal – analyst
- SABC Renaissance Centre ready for polls
Languages and Dialects
Literature
Making Of
Missives
- When The Relationship Ended
- Mohamed Farrag on Intimacy, Vulnerability, and Relationships
- تطفيش الصبا
- Sluta ljuga för oss, Sverige!
- A Rant about Co-opting International Men’s Day
- Epilogue: The Woman From the Poem
- Sharing a Poem with the Person You Wrote It For
- One Year Ago
- Wordless Intimacy
- On Growing Up
- The Past Three Days
- The Curse of Over-Engineering
- Learning How to Work in a Team
- A First Day with Test-Driven Development
- My Complicated Relationship with Writing
- How to Medicate
Music
- Ballin’ by Snoop and Pharrell
- “The World Is Turned Upside Down”
- The Sh’ma Israel
- Rachmaninoff – Klavierkonzert Nr. 2
- Tales of Mystery and Imagination Edgar Allan Poe
- One Song from My Recent Performance
- A Midnight Gem by the Beach
- Singing Again
- Under the Bridge…
Narration
On the Turntable Today
- Ballin’ by Snoop and Pharrell
- Rachmaninoff – Klavierkonzert Nr. 2
- Tales of Mystery and Imagination Edgar Allan Poe
OSS
På svenska
Photography
Poetry
- Sharing a Poem with the Person You Wrote It For
- Planted in Blue
- I’m Resting
- A Mind’s Narrative Before the End
- Inside
- For Two
- I Live Here
- Justice
- Sleeping (a haiku)
- Cocoon
- Still
- Me and the Water
- A Dream for a Day
- Another Sigh While In Agony
- As My Bones Ached
- I Miss You
- The Creases
- Sunk Out of Sight
- The Night the Storm Came
- For My Country
- This Place is Us
- I’m Late for Dull Weeds
- The Guilty Knife
- This Bar Needs Better Lighting
- Three’s Island
- Only Love at This Height
- Don’t Slay Me
- A King’s Decree
- I Apologize
Politics
- Embarrassing Report About Egypt’s Involvement in the Ceasefire Deal
- Aron Flam and Henrik Jönsson
- “Choose Life, not Death”
- Sweden’s Public Radio Broadcaster’s Documentary About Detransitioning
- How Gaza Could Trigger a Regional War
- Why Did Israeli Spyware Fail?
- Polling Gazans
- Harrowing Admission by Hamas Leader
- Rabbi Manis Friedman on the Proportionality of War
- Cartoon on WaPo, now taken down.
- Gazans and Hamaa
- Rape and Sexual Abuse on October 7
- “Our New München”
- Babylon Bee. HOT SAUCE
- Henrik Jönsson Saws Social Democrats on immigration
- Louise Perry on Feminism
- “My Son’s Head for $10,000”
- Cutting Through The Russophobic Noise
Quotes
Relationships and Dating
Short Stories
- Welcome the Impact
- Det öppna kontoret
- The Unabridged Book of Genesis: Chapters 1-3
- The Bookstore
- The Horse and the Rat (a fable)
- The Girl Likes Joints
- Your Eyes are Tired. Whom Do You Want to Call?
- Love is Water
Television
Theology
Thinking
- كلام للرجالة
- Captain My Captain 💔
- Sweden’s Public Radio Broadcaster’s Documentary About Detransitioning
- Niqab and Hijab Are Onto Something
- Translation of Radwa El-Sherbiny’s Monologue on Terrible Partners
- On Workaholism
- How Gaza Could Trigger a Regional War
- Why Did Israeli Spyware Fail?
- Rabbi Manis Friedman on the Proportionality of War
- I Was At The Beach
Translation
Walkthrough
Whitepapers
- Complete Guide: Deploying Services to AWS EKS with Terraform and Helm
- Test Runners in Multi-Stage Docker Builds
- Logging Setup for Frontend + Backend Observability in a Nomad-Hosted App
Writing
- The Process and the Craft
- Automating OpenApi Spec Validation with Gradle and Spring Boot
- Hamba Kahle, Siya
- كلام للرجالة
- Captain My Captain 💔
- مصر بالنسبة لي
- When The Relationship Ended
- Translation of Radwa El-Sherbiny’s Monologue on Terrible Partners
- A Letter to Immigrant Parents
- Mohamed Farrag on Intimacy, Vulnerability, and Relationships
- An Examination of the Private, Personal, and Public
- تطفيش الصبا
- I Was At The Beach
- Sluta ljuga för oss, Sverige!
- FHM Press Conference 9 July 2020
- FHM pressträff – 9 July 2020
- A Rant about Co-opting International Men’s Day
- Liking One Person and Liking Them Intensely
- Inside A Bitter Artist There May Be A Basic Person
- Epilogue: The Woman From the Poem
- Sharing a Poem with the Person You Wrote It For
- I Am an Artist
- Fret Not, My Heart
- One Year Ago
- Bury Me in the Water
- Truly Beautiful Writing
- Making Bella
- Planted in Blue
- Wordless Intimacy
- Looking Back on the Doodle Challenge
- Looking Back on the Colories Series
- On Growing Up
- I’m Resting
- The Past Three Days
- Most Weird and Most Excellentest of All Animations
- The Curse of Over-Engineering
- Learning How to Work in a Team
- The Weekend It Was – Midsummer, Code, and The Lake
- A First Day with Test-Driven Development
- My Strained Relationship with Software Development
- Episode 10 of Colories
- Show Up Every Day
- A first stop-motion film
- My Complicated Relationship with Writing
- A Mind’s Narrative Before the End
- How to Medicate
- Inside
- For Two
- I Live Here
- One-line Review – “Hail, Caesar!”
- Welcome the Impact
- Justice
- Sleeping (a haiku)
- Going Against the Grain on Twitter
- Det öppna kontoret
- Cocoon
- Still
- The Unabridged Book of Genesis: Chapters 1-3
- The Bookstore
- “Fact-Checking Brexit: The Conclusion”
- Me and the Water
- A Dream for a Day
- The Problems with Mr. Robot
- The Problems with ‘Mr. Robot’
- On Fantasy and Romantic Relationships with Others
- Recovering from a Freshly Ended Relationship
- 9 Ways of Being for Men Who Have Been Looking for Love For a Long Time
- Another Sigh While In Agony
- As My Bones Ached
- I Miss You
- The Creases
- The Job Search as Fire
- A Sigh While Agonizing
- Something Familiar
- Sunk Out of Sight
- On the Rejection of IM Read Receipts
- The Night the Storm Came
- A Letter to Jennifer Aniston
- On Living
- For My Country
- I’m Late for Dull Weeds
- This Place is Us
- The Guilty Knife
- This Bar Needs Better Lighting
- Three’s Island
- Only Love at This Height
- Hello. It’s Me. You’re Googling Me ahead of An Interview.
- Don’t Slay Me
- The Horse and the Rat (a fable)
- Keep Your Eyes Peeled
- Dear Now Married,
- The Girl Likes Joints
- On Lady Macbeth
- A King’s Decree
- Your Eyes are Tired. Whom Do You Want to Call?
- I Apologize
- My 6 Books of 2015
- Love is Water
- The Lies of Marriage for Middle-Income Children
- The Dream of Travelling to a Far-away Identity
- Violence lived is violence wrought.
- Difference between government and private sector vaccines
- When ill-considered street semantics turn into acts of destruction and murder
- From Idea to [the start of a] Story
- Police raid on #Alexandra Wednesday morning uncovers little
- #Jeppestown raid targeted ‘criminal elements’ of xenophobic attacks
- Some government uptake from TomTom data and insights
- [interactive map] Top hijacking and smash ‘n’ grab hotspots in Gauteng
- [webdoc] Protest Chants of the EFF
- Following the Jeppestown evictions
- [Updated] Understanding the #JeppeProtest and Jeppestown evictions
- Ahead of ‘March Against Crime’ on Friday, local councilor explains why the march
- R260k in revenue lost every day with Rea Vaya buses off the roads
- Pussy Riot as Feminism, Protest, Punk
- SA consumers drive social capital from public to private sector
- South Africa was partner with CIA in rendition program – Open Society
- UAE labels 85 organisations and movements worldwide as ‘terrorist groups’
- Curated Multimedia Report using Storify
- Quarterly employment figures show increase in job creation
- Should You Report When the Public Doesn’t Care?
- The Complexity of Islamism in Egypt and the Middle East
- The Pointless Furor over “The Beauty of Roh” (حلاوة روح)
- Human Rights Watch release report on Rab’aa massacre in August 2013
- Videos and Audio from Yesterday’s Protest
- Stockholm Iraqi, Syrian, Lebanese call on government to stop IS violence against Christians
- My View of the Media and My Role in the Media
- When Politics Enters Your Monitor
- Fact-Checking: ‘Hamas is Israel’s Frankenstein’
- ABC Australia’s Stone Cold Justice report misses the mark
- OLR – “Where the Wild Things Are”
- OLR – “Black Book”
- Gauteng turnout lowest in 5 years despite campaigning
- Youth vote depended on education and party appeal – analyst
- SABC Renaissance Centre ready for polls
- On the Implications of the Recent Muhammad Film
- Submissions to Publications
- Pretty Sad
- Killer Essay On Women in the Middle East
- Art and The Protestant Tradition
- Another Supposed Jesus “Freak”
- OLR – “Standing Firm”
- OLR – “A Mighty Heart”
- OLR – “A Case of Murder”
- “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest”
- “Doubt”
- “August”
- Exploring Woody Allen in OLRs – Part 2
- “The Last Temptation of Christ”
- Exploring Woody Allen in OLR’s – Part 1
- OLR – “The Girl Who Played With Fire”
- OLR – “Cadillac Records”
- OLR – “Green Zone”
- Models for Kahuna Massage Shoot
- OLR – “Sex, Lies, and Videotape”
- OLR – “Confessions of a Gambler”
- OLR – “The Kids Are Alright”
- OLRs – from Another Delta Flight
- OLRs – from A Delta Flight
- OLR – “Inception”
- OLR – “The Boondock Saints” & “The Boondock Saints II”
- OLR – “Burn After Reading”
- OLR – “Rachel Getting Married”
- From a Line Comes a Idea, Comes a Film
- Writing with Victor
- OLR – “Quantum Solace”
- OLR – “Funny People”
- Introducing One Line Reviews
- King George and I
- Armenian Genocide
- An Actor’s Actor