One man, living in Iran sharing the weird stuff he sees and hears...

My friend just showed me his most recent purchase: 3 DVDS containing digital copies of 7000 books in Farsi. Price? $4. (Iran doesn’t have any copyright laws.) Now if buyers would just read the books…

Check out my hour long conversation and call in Q&A session on HEY! with Dane Golden. HEY! is a new live interview podcast show with my friend Dane, and in this segment we discussed everything from avocadoes to Ayatollahs.

Just been asked to name Tehran’s four architecturally ugliest neighborhoods and can’t come up with any clear front runners. This is one competition where everyone is a winner!

Had lunch at The Goodfather restaurant in Tehran yesterday. Slogan “An offer you can’t refuse.”

For those of you who keep track of such things, both Sweden and Iran are celebrating national holidays today. In Sweden it’s Cinnamon Roll Day —I’m dead serious— and in Iran we’re marking the 765 AD martyrdom of the 6th Shi’a Imam, Sadeq.

Despite what everyone thought they knew, the Iranian Rial is the only world currency worth the paper it’s printed on.. and then some! At least according this Op-Ed from Press TV, which argues that the Rial is a unit of wealth, while the US dollar is simply a unit of debt.

For those keeping score, it currently takes just under 11,000 units of Iranian ‘wealth’ to equal a single unit of American ‘debt.’

I’ve just posted a on the crowd-funding platform, Kickstarter.com

The goal of the this endeavor to bring avocado culture to the people of Iran, by any means necessary. 

Have a look at the video and support this important cause.