Taybeh Beer polo shirt, “The Finest in the Middle East,” courtesy of the Crap I Found While Moving collection, West Bank addendum. Read More »
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Negev Rock City is the personal blog of Neal Ungerleider, a Tel Aviv/New York-based writer, editor and journalist. Neal currently writes about the Middle East for True/Slant and contributes regularly to a number of print and web publications. All opinions expressed herein are that of the author alone and do not represent any institutions or organizations that he may be affiliated with.About the editorE-mail the editor
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T-shirt for Schwartz’s Deli in Montreal, Canada, courtesy…
T-shirt for Schwartz’s Deli in Montreal, Canada, courtesy of the Crap I Found While Moving collection. Read More »
Russian-language Ramones poster, courtesy of the Crap I Found…
Russian-language Ramones poster, courtesy of the Crap I Found While Moving collection. Read More »
An MTV-brand portable MP3 player from the early ’00s that…
An MTV-brand portable MP3 player from the early ’00s that holds a full 128MB of music!! Courtesy of the Crap I Found While Moving collection. Read More »
The infamous Marvin Gaye divorce album where he spends the…
The infamous Marvin Gaye divorce album where he spends the entire LP insulting his ex-wife, courtesy of the Crap I Found While Moving collection. Read More »
Punk rock George W. Bush parody shirt, courtesy of the Crap I…
Punk rock George W. Bush parody shirt, courtesy of the Crap I Found While Moving collection. Read More »
My old spiked leather vest from the angry teen years, courtesy…
My old spiked leather vest from the angry teen years, courtesy of the Crap I Found While Moving collection. Read More »
Tears and Laughter in an Israel Courtroom, courtesy of the Crap…
Tears and Laughter in an Israel Courtroom, courtesy of the Crap I Found While Moving collection. Read More »
Fortean Times back issues, courtesy of the Crap I Found While…
Fortean Times back issues, courtesy of the Crap I Found While Moving collection. Read More »
My old punk rock flight jacket, courtesy of the Crap I Found…
My old punk rock flight jacket, courtesy of the Crap I Found While Moving collection. Extra points for spotting the Minor Threat, Born Against and Sham 69 patches. Read More »
Diesel t-shirt with faux-Japanese lettering, mid-’00s,…
Diesel t-shirt with faux-Japanese lettering, mid-’00s, courtesy of the Crap I Found While moving collection. Read More »
A thermal undershirt someone silkscreened the cover of the first…
A thermal undershirt someone silkscreened the cover of the first Clash LP onto. Belonged to an ex-girlfriend, now courtesy of the Crap I Found While Moving collection. Read More »
A Black Jesus action figure, courtesy of the Crap I Found While…
A Black Jesus action figure, courtesy of the Crap I Found While Moving collection. Read More »
Billy Bragg 1996 tour shirt, part of the Crap I Found While…
Billy Bragg 1996 tour shirt, part of the Crap I Found While Moving collection. Read More »
“The Big Book of Weirdos,” part of the Crap I Found…
“The Big Book of Weirdos,” part of the Crap I Found While Moving collection. Read More »
CIA suicide bomber was… a blogger – True/Slant
CIA suicide bomber was… a blogger – True/Slant: In a bizarre twist, the suicide bomber who killed eight people at a CIA base in Afghanistan may have been… a blogger and internet bulletin board admin. Read More »
T-shirt: “Beer Fucking Sheva!” – part of the Crap I…
T-shirt: “Beer Fucking Sheva!” – part of the Crap I Found While Moving collection, living in Israel addendum. Read More »
Crap I Found While Moving
For all of today, I’m photoblogging crap I found while moving.Background: I was living in Israel for the past 1.5 years and in a subletted room for the last two months. I just got a place of my own a few weeks back and am now unpacking everything I haven’t seen in nearly two years.I’m busy with my thesis today, so I enjoy the pics coming up. Read More »
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What is your type of woman? What do you look for? I like women who (redacted) and prefer (redacted, redacted, redacted) Ask me anything Read More »
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-3)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-3): The Beatles (55) Iron Maiden (21) Mark Lanegan (16) Jedi Mind Tricks (15) Queens of the Stone Age (13) Imported from Last. Read More »
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(imo) Filipino men are tenacious and very, very cheesy-sweet towards women. USA men are hesitant and very afraid of rejection. What are Israeli men like towards women they are dating/ want to date? & what is the “ideal woman” in Israel— similar to US’s? Israeli men are tenacious and very alternately aggressive-sweet towards women. Read More »
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Are you going for a PhD after you finish the MA? No comment. It’s tempting but I like this whole journalism thing. Read More »
Speaking of weirdness in pop music, does anyone else remember…
Speaking of weirdness in pop music, does anyone else remember the Anti-Nowhere League? Read More »
Reposted because Solange Knowles is awesome. As a very white…
OMG where can I get this jacket? Need. Reposted because Solange Knowles is awesome. As a very white male, I can’t comment on the black female angle… but I dig pop stars like Solange who self-consciously inject a little WEIRD into their music. You know what? It works really damn well. Read More »
Saudi prince becomes R&B singer – True/Slant
Saudi prince becomes R&B singer – True/Slant: A Saudi royal recently attempted to give himself a makeover… as an R&B star. Prince Faisal bin Mansour bin Thunayan al-Saud, member of a cadet branch of the House of Saud, just came out with two Islamic-themed R&B songs about family values and suicide prevention. Read More »
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Who drives worse – Israelis or New York cabbies? Israelis. New York cabbies have actually been spotted following traffic laws on occasion. Read More »
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Tell me about your thesis? I’m writing about international media coverage of the 2009 Iranian post-election demonstrations and international press portrayals of Neda Agha-Soltan’s death. Read More »
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How’s your French? Getting much better. Now I know tu, vous, votre, aussi, et, comme, mais and many other exciting words. Read More »
Bro, if you’re going to be a bigot at an anti-Obama rally,…
Bro, if you’re going to be a bigot at an anti-Obama rally, at least learn how to spell the n word. Read More »
Max Romeo – Wet DreamBought to you by the society for rocksteady…
Max Romeo – Wet DreamBought to you by the society for rocksteady preservation. The result, “Wet Dream” (1969), was an instant hit in Jamaica, although in the UK it was met with a BBC Radio ban, despite Romeo’s somewhat-disingenuous claim that the song was actually about a roof that has a leak. Read More »
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Do you have a girlfriend? Who do you have a crush on tumblr? Who do you want to meet from tumblr if you had a chance? How old are you? My significant other right now is my thesis. As for the amazing girls of Tumblr, too many to name. Read More »
Ask Me About Formspring.Me: The Sociopathic Crack Cocaine of Oversharing
Ask Me About Formspring.Me: The Sociopathic Crack Cocaine of Oversharing: #floggingadeadhorseofanonlinetrend Read More »
I Guess Arabic Isn’t The Hardest Language In The World.
I Guess Arabic Isn’t The Hardest Language In The World.: Color me surprised. Read More »
“If you don’t have enough evidence to charge someone criminally but you think he’s…”
““If you don’t have enough evidence to charge someone criminally but you think he’s illegal, we can make him disappear. Read More »
It’s Viking Day Over At Documentaries Are Awesome
It’s Viking Day Over At Documentaries Are Awesome Read More »
Spending Saturday Night In Jersey City…
Jesus. I really am pushing 30. Read More »
Johann Hari: You Are Being Lied to About Pirates
Johann Hari: You Are Being Lied to About Pirates: Read this. Read More »
I Just Found A Christmas Card From Fox News
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If you ever went to a show at L’Amours, odds are you were…
If you ever went to a show at L’Amours, odds are you were a 1990s bridge and tunnel headbanger at some point of your life. Represent. Read More »
Go Ahead, Ask Me Anything (Oblig. formspring.me post)
Go Ahead, Ask Me Anything (Oblig. formspring.me post) Read More »
History nerding: A 1919 Japanese poster celebrating the…
History nerding: A 1919 Japanese poster celebrating the occupation of Vladivostok during the Russian Civil War. Note the crowd of Russians enthusiastically waving Japanese flags. Read More »
US aid tied to purchase of arms
US aid tied to purchase of arms: That’s geopolitics for you. Or: Why South Korea, Morocco and Poland HEART buying US-made weapons.mikehudack: youngmanhattanite: Just before Christmas, the US President, Barack Obama, signed into law one of his country’s biggest aid pledges of the year. Read More »
Greetings from beautiful Jersey City. Unpacking takes too much…
Greetings from beautiful Jersey City. Unpacking takes too much damn time… Read More »
Since It’s A Slow News Day, I’ll Answer Your Questions Off Of Twitter Or Negev Rock City.
Since It’s A Slow News Day, I’ll Answer Your Questions Off Of Twitter Or Negev Rock City. Read More »
One Last Post About Gaza Before I STFU
Of all places, the New York Times just ran a post about that poor kid who got hit by shrapnel when his family wasn’t near a bomb shelter in the war. The article is about how he’s struck up a friendship in the hospital with a Palestinian girl from Gaza whose house was hit by an Israeli rocket. Read More »
Say what you will about the musical value of ’80s punk…
Say what you will about the musical value of ’80s punk rock, but those bands got the art of record sleeve design done right. Read More »
Time Flies…
Exactly one year ago today, my university came under rocket attack. I can remember the air raid sirens and bomb shelters so goddamn vividly. Actually, this is what I wrote last year: Before anyone panics, I’m safe in Tel Aviv. But I just got the following put on my Facebook wall by one of my friends and classmates:“woo did you miss action. Read More »
Actually, a lot of native Dubai/UAE citizens make jokes about…
Actually, a lot of native Dubai/UAE citizens make jokes about Emirates being the airline for “Indians.” IRONY, DUDE. Read More »
“HONOLULU — Conservative radio talk host Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu hospital on…”
“HONOLULU — Conservative radio talk host Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu hospital on Wednesday afternoon with chest pains, sources told KITV. Paramedics responded to the call at 2:41 p.m. at the Kahala Hotel and Resort. Limbaugh suffered from chest pains, sources said. Read More »
Just stopped at a halal food cart run by Nepali Buddhists
THIS IS WHY I LOVE NYC. Read More »
“Though born a Christian, Michel Aflaq believed that Islam provides Arabs with “the most…”
“Though born a Christian, Michel Aflaq believed that Islam provides Arabs with “the most brilliant picture of their language and literature, and the grandest part of their national history.” He did not see the confrontation with the West in Muslim versus Christian terms. Read More »
Day One Of ‘Ask Me Anything Online’ Has Worked In Full Effect
So far I’ve answered questions on the origin of my ‘cool last name,’ if I ever attended a Wet-Hot-American-Summer style summer camp, Middle East politics, my thesis on media coverage of the Iranian demonstrations and what I’ve had for lunch. Yes, my readers are an eclectic bunch. Read More »
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Do you believe the one state solution is possible? No. There’s too much antipathy and hatred between both sides to make a one-state solution workable. Read More »
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It’s a slow pre-holiday afternoon and I don’t really know anyone who reads this blog outside of 20-odd personal friends. So, it’s official – you can now ask me any question you want at the following URL. Ain’t technology wonderful? http://formspring. Read More »
