Tainting Passions
Beneath a thin top layer of honey, the barrel is full of shit. At the bottom lies death...
Mickey's life was an accident. Dumped by his mother hours after birth and losing his father from a heroin overdose at the age of three, he was adopted by his drug-addicted uncle and grew up in a company of crooks and loafers. Married to an older, deranged former coquette, he led a dull stoner's life up to his early thirties. Everything changed when he became rich overnight ...
Real Stories of Real People
I have always experienced a peculiar kind of relationship with society. Since I remember myself as a part of it, I’ve been going through frequently alternating periods of extreme attitudes regarding my feelings towards my fellow humans. I have loved them and hated them passionately beyond intervals of utter indifference, teetering on a conceptual, emotional scale between altruism and misanthropy ...
Backpacking Iraq
Iraq isn’t the average traveler’s dream destination. It is a country we often encounter on glum news headlines—among terms such as war, terror, and turmoil—but never on covers of fancy travel magazines. However, my idea of meaningful traveling isn’t defined by the mainstream media’s advertising efforts. I have no interest in adding to the riches of posh resorts’ owners and to the millions of selfies taken in front of popular landmarks ...
Backpacking Lebanon
Nothing too serious. Not a travel guide. Just a forthright, lighthearted travelogue recounting my experiences and observations during a month of spontaneous backpacking around this little-understood and often-misunderstood Middle-Eastern country.
We arrived in Lebanon with my partner in mid-summer 2023. The first few days that we spent in the capital city of Beirut comprised some casual sightseeing, a fluky techno party in a clandestine squat, and preparations for our imminent expedition… ...