During this holiday season, when we are wont to lament the commercialization and corruption and exploitation of our Western holidays, we can all take some consolation in the fact that, as a culture, we are not alone. The other day while driving around town listening to the radio, I heard a fabulously and unintentionally hilarious ad from one of the local mobile phone networks advertising free roaming service in Saudi Arabia during hajj season. The ad ended with the super-posh British-accented commercial voice saying "May God accept your hajj!" and maybe you had to hear it to appreciate it, but... wow. The incongruity of it all made me laugh so hard I cried.
This was meant to be a longer post but it is past midnight on Friday night and I have just been summoned to go meet Flatmate E and his visiting BF in Deira to go to our favorite prostitute bar (not to HIRE the prostitutes, obvi, but to conduct our every-few-months demographic and sociocultural study of their lives). So a longer post will come later this weekend.
XOXO
