Edinburgh, city of culture II

A fellow blogger asks if I will write more about my recent trip to Edinburgh. On my way to see an overpriced show on Saturday, my friend Rich and his girlfriend stopped at a shop called Richer Sounds (no relation). I decided to buy headphones for my i-Pod (did I just say ‘my i-Pod?’) Anyway, the guy in the store showed me this £30 set ($456) — black. But I got white. When I get home, however, I realised my i-Pod is black.
Over-reading Lolita in Tehran
Columbia’s university Hamid Dabashi has compared Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Iran, to Lynndie England, below.