The Divine Banana
Given everything that is happening, and I say this without a hint of irony, I’m saving the irony for the year 2026.
Rituals & Mythologies
Poetry and fiction from the liminal spaces.
The World’s Busiest Natural Reserve Has Never Charged Admission. Let’s Pay Now.
Before Iran began charging for the Strait of Hormuz, the Strait of Hormuz was charging Iran — and no one was paying.
THE WALLS ARE FALLING
“The security guard said you were aggressive.” “He asked me to return the books and I gave them back to him.” “He said you hit him with them.”
Ode to Missor
"Not merely more gas, we've had quite enough of left wing wind and art-talk guff."
A Place in the Sun
There’s no abuse, so don’t confuse it. Just don’t make me bleed.
The Faustian Bargain
Sisyphus pays full price for not having made a Faustian bargain before climbing Mount Academia.
The Man Who Knelt Down (In Defense of Artists Living in Iran)
“Those Iranians in the diaspora who do not understand the tragic nature of life easily draw moral lines.”
A Leader of the Modern Age in Medieval Robes and Turbans
“For an Iranian, contradiction is not a philosophical decoration of life. Contradiction is life itself.”
THE CURIOUS CASE OF HALIBUT SCHMIDT
‘Were the swastikas merely part of Schmidt’s “minimalist, rectal aesthetic”, as scholarship claimed, or did they mean something more? Sisyphus dared to investigate’.
WHY ALL GENUINE ART IS ESSENTIALLY CHRISTIAN
A theological reflection on bona fide aesthetics — the artwork as the incarnation of the divine.