i won't stop
a quick post to say two things:
1- even if there is a day where you don't see new posts, you should know that i am drawing every fucking day at least 3 to 4 drawings. just keep checking, they'll be here at some point.
2- i have now a program to check the daily visits. it is around 11000 per day. the real number of visitors is bigger if knowing that a lot of the "regulars" connect once or twice in a week. the real number must be around 15000 maybe.
there is 15000 persons seeing this blog! it's incredible no?
no.
IT IS NOT ENOUGH!
guys if each one of these 15000 can drag 10 more people asking them to drag 10 more, we'll be a fucking million and a half. and if this million can drag some more...
i am not totally naive and more likely a little bit sceptical, but it seems for me that a webtifada is possible. ghandi's concept but on the net. one fucking billion of people saying NO. it looks cheesy i know, but is there something else to do?
anyways, i thank you all (especially the israelis, germans, english and american people who have the balls to refuse what they are told they should do by their government).
i'd like to be able to thank personally, "live", each one of you. it'll take a lifetime, but i'll try. after.
after.
we have a recording session now (with charbel haber, raed yassin, sharif sehnaoui, bechir saadé and myself). a recording session with ALL the lebanese improv scene. pretty small i know.
we fucking resist. we fucking resist. we fucking resist.
i'll try to post the 12 drawings of yesterday this evening. at least some of them.
and sorry again for the emails and comments i am not answering. i am reading EVERYTHING but not finding time to answer.
and sorry not to have erased yet the fucking racist/xenophobe/ brainless comments on some of the drawings. i'll be back on them!
1- even if there is a day where you don't see new posts, you should know that i am drawing every fucking day at least 3 to 4 drawings. just keep checking, they'll be here at some point.
2- i have now a program to check the daily visits. it is around 11000 per day. the real number of visitors is bigger if knowing that a lot of the "regulars" connect once or twice in a week. the real number must be around 15000 maybe.
there is 15000 persons seeing this blog! it's incredible no?
no.
IT IS NOT ENOUGH!
guys if each one of these 15000 can drag 10 more people asking them to drag 10 more, we'll be a fucking million and a half. and if this million can drag some more...
i am not totally naive and more likely a little bit sceptical, but it seems for me that a webtifada is possible. ghandi's concept but on the net. one fucking billion of people saying NO. it looks cheesy i know, but is there something else to do?
anyways, i thank you all (especially the israelis, germans, english and american people who have the balls to refuse what they are told they should do by their government).
i'd like to be able to thank personally, "live", each one of you. it'll take a lifetime, but i'll try. after.
after.
we have a recording session now (with charbel haber, raed yassin, sharif sehnaoui, bechir saadé and myself). a recording session with ALL the lebanese improv scene. pretty small i know.
we fucking resist. we fucking resist. we fucking resist.
i'll try to post the 12 drawings of yesterday this evening. at least some of them.
and sorry again for the emails and comments i am not answering. i am reading EVERYTHING but not finding time to answer.
and sorry not to have erased yet the fucking racist/xenophobe/ brainless comments on some of the drawings. i'll be back on them!
posted by mazen (old profile) at 12:29
19 Comments:
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Thank You! though we never met, I know our blood runs in the same vain. Your talent - though fed with tears - is nontheless a voice for our future and the future of Libnan. Bless you and Viva La Kerblog.
From Mexico, all I can say is:
OUR HEARTS ARE WITH YOU!
Blessed be my friends.
Mazen - you are awsome man. I live in the states and live you and others such as Nadine the pain of the Lebanese and Lebanon. If I may say this, you make many people like myself even prouder to be Lebanese.
Dear Mazen,
I am asking for your permission to post your latest post in my blog -both in English and in Greek- with a link back here.
May I?
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask:
"Mother, what was war?"
~Eve Merriam
THE WEBTIFADA DOES NOT NEED ANOTHER BLOG
MAZENS BLOG IS THE WEBTIFADA BLOG !)
WHAT WE NEED IS
THE WEBTIFADA WEBSITE
C'MON GUYS COME UP WITH SOMETHING!
Have you a programme to work out how many times you use the word fucking in each post?
the people of France remain interdependent of oppressed, victims of a war of which they are not actors ...
Courage, friends
I love webtifada concept^^
keep it up, mazen! the drawings and commentary provide an all too rare glimpse at lebanese humanity -- something that the american media would like to pretend doesn't exist, making it all the easier to ignore (or worse, support) israel's shameful slaughter of civilians.
and post some of that music here, too, if possible. the more media, the better. i appreciated your "jam" with the bombs that dj /rupture pointed me to. powerful stuff.
in strength and solidarity,
w&w
boston, MA
Webtifada it is! I am doing my small part. your part is the largest mazen.
we fucking resist. we fucking resist. we fucking resist.
yexahidela, go deya, t'cindi.
(which is the apache language from an ancient prayer for warriors and means "having been prepared, he walks, we all say this")
bihil hishash aaii diji jooni
(walk today in beauty)
well, it seems that idea of webtifada found some supporters. i have to admit that the word is cool but was not invented by me at all. actually i already saw it in 5 to 6 emails.
so i let you imagine how to do it. for me it seems that bringing one billion people together on a website in the same moment should be enough. it will blow out the internet worldwide for sure.
let's webtifada then.
my dear - offended - cyberscribe,
if i use so much the word "fucking" in my language it is because i learned to speak english at an advanced stage of my life (11 years) and used to learn more from the american movies rather than from english teacher at school (i admit, i was a bad student).
if you compare with arabic and french that i speak and learned at school and at home at an earlier stage of my life (3 years), i can impress you with how creative i can be with insults. i think that "fucking" is somehow not enough. too weak. too impersonal.
i'll try to do some variations soon. keep posted.
Mazen!
I recommend you setup e.g. draw up a painted artistic petition - in form of a strong KERBLOG drawing.
Then you put it online for any individual to print out on a b/w printer and glue on any lamppost, wall, music theaters cashier desk, church, brothel entry - you name it - allover the world
then one online petition to:
1.) sign with name and email address
2.) then forward to a politician living the petitioners area I could search for some Austrian adressees - e.g. in the EU providing a eu comissinariy email adress, in the USA soemone has to find the proper adress there.
3.) some chaps here on the internet are surely clever enough to find a valid email address of reps. like Condi, Bush, Koffie Annan, Olmert Assad, Van Heugen, Bruce Willis e.g. to whom that signed petitions may be forwarded.
4.) One guy in or around Brussels would be needed to assemble all signatures to the petition, print it out and send it by snail mail (photos to be taken) to the EU commissary.
5.) to organise all this I would set up a seperate KERBLOG blog to assemble all ideas - the main and most important, superior and overshadowing aim is:
Every idea supplied must be a self runner as we all know Mazen is not able to handle any additional task.
A seperate site / internet representation / blog for WEBTIFADA would be good for security reasons as one never knows when one of the ever-present agents desides "Mazen is not good for us" and decides to hack your only site - then your offline with everything.
Just my two cents
Dear Mazen,
I've copied your post in my blog with a link back here.
We're listening you.
Love and mercy for you and your friends, from Spain.
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Mazen, love every bit of ur blog.. takes me hours to log on to the internet from the saida.. where i have been stuck for the past 20 days or something lost track of counting.. my nights and days are all mixed up.. where was i? well yeah takes hours to log on to the internet just to see whats new on Kerblog...
supporter of the WEBTIFADA!
i dont think it's good to have a website for webtifada. i think it has to be an idea that is being undertaken by a people all over the world. the fact that people are starting to link to this site or make mirrors of this site or start their own small resistances makes webtifada grow. by creating one main site for webtifada, it defeats the purpose of webtifada. unless webtifada is supposed to be like that.
webtifada is everyone against the wrong system of things.
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