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Negev Rock City 
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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Gene Simmons definitely married the wrong woman. Also: …
Gene Simmons definitely married the wrong woman. Also: Wow. latimes : Los Angeles resident Chanel Tapper can claim the state’s longest tongue , according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Read More »
Soccer ultras for Egyptian team Al-Ahly FC literally drew the…
Soccer ultras for Egyptian team Al-Ahly FC literally drew the faces of their imprisoned soccer hooligan comrades on the terraces of their stadium. Read More »
cajunboy:Wingnuts Attack Olive Garden & Red Lobster On…
cajunboy : Wingnuts Attack Olive Garden & Red Lobster On Facebook For 86ing French Fries From Kid’s Menus Read More »
The Berenstain Bears are being used to teach Lakota/Sioux…
The Berenstain Bears are being used to teach Lakota/Sioux children their ancestral language . Read More »
I’m gonna be a contrarian and say the idea of Peter Hook,…
I’m gonna be a contrarian and say the idea of Peter Hook, Moby and Perry Farrell covering Joy Divison is totally fucking alright by me. We’re in 2011. Joy Division’s records are older than I am, and I’m a bald journalist in my thirties — which means I’m firmly in the respectable adult demo. Read More »
H. Jon Benjamin of “Archer” Went To Grad School For Holocaust Studies
H. Jon Benjamin of “Archer” Went To Grad School For Holocaust Studies : I thought it was a joke, but I’m listening to Aisha Tyler’s podcast, and apparently it’s not. C-r-a-z-y yo. Read More »
The New York Post are kicking themselves that they didn’t…
The New York Post are kicking themselves that they didn’t write this headline. Read More »
It’s A Day Of The Week Ending In -Day, Which Means Dov Hikind Is Angry About Something Again
It’s A Day Of The Week Ending In -Day, Which Means Dov Hikind Is Angry About Something Again : Never say that Hikind isn’t an entertaining bastard. I say we lock him in a room with Charles Barron for all eternity and see what happens. Read More »
I just wrote for Fast Company about the manned space programs of…
I just wrote for Fast Company about the manned space programs of China, India and Iran. It ain’t just Neil Armstrong anymore! Read More »
thenoobyorker:nativeangeleno:This photograph should win a…
thenoobyorker : nativeangeleno : This photograph should win a Pulitzer He’s definitely hit bikini bottom… Read More »
WikiLeaks: Norway Is “Anti-Semitic”
WikiLeaks: Norway Is “Anti-Semitic” : Well, looks like my right-wing Jewish relatives were right! But, seriously, money excerpt: their national character is deeply and essentially “good,” makes Norwegians reluctant to accuse one of their own of a sin perceived to be as odious as anti-Semitism. Read More »
I’m still watching the 2009 NBC series Kings via Hulu,…
I’m still watching the 2009 NBC series Kings via Hulu, still loving it. It’s a (work with me here) science fiction retelling of the Biblical story of King David. The network didn’t really know what the hell to do with it, but it stars Deadwood’s Ian McShane — who does what he does best and chews all scenery in his path like woah. Read More »
When The Amish Go Bad
When The Amish Go Bad : Here are the booking photos (click to enlarge) of the eight members of an Amish sect who were ordered jailed by a Kentucky judge after they refused to pay fines for failing to affix orange safety triangles to their horse-drawn buggies. Read More »
Why Pabst Blue Ribbon’s New Marketing Campaign Could Be A Bad, Bad Idea
Why Pabst Blue Ribbon’s New Marketing Campaign Could Be A Bad, Bad Idea Read More »
I’m Starting Facebook Subscriptions
To keep track of my latest magazine and web stories , I’ve enabled Subscriptions on my Facebook page. It seems like this will be either incredibly useful or a massive waste of time — much like the internet itself. Read More »
I’m moving out of my apartment in November and looking for…
I’m moving out of my apartment in November and looking for a new share/studio. Looking for a place to live in NYC is only slightly easier than coming under rocket fire in foreign countries—and I wish I was kidding. Non-NYCers, I really wish I was kidding about that. Read More »
The Bean Is Being Evicted To Make Way For A… Starbucks
The Bean Is Being Evicted To Make Way For A… Starbucks : Legendary East Village coffee shop The Bean is being kicked out so their landlord can open a Starbucks. The Bean is opening a new location around the corner, in that storefront that used to have the “crazy landlord” sign. Read More »
Finding Buried Earthquake Victims By Smelling Their Breath And Sweat | Fast Company
Finding Buried Earthquake Victims By Smelling Their Breath And Sweat | Fast Company : Just wrote for FastCo on a new technology that can find people trapped under building by sniffing for individual molecules of residue from spit, sweat and urine. Read More »
Sam Sifton’s Just Been Named New York Times Nat’l Editor
File under: When food critics conquer the world. Read More »
Reporter From Der Spiegel Thinks That Amish Market Is… Amish
Hint for non-NYCers: Amish Market is not actually Amish: Park Place, the street in which the cultural center is to be built, is a perfect showcase of how tolerant New York has been for many years. Read More »
THOR, GOD OF UNION SQUARE. Marvel paid for a dozen actors…
THOR, GOD OF UNION SQUARE. Marvel paid for a dozen actors dressed up as Thor to march through Union Square to promote the new DVD release. This is why I always carry a camera with me in NYC. Read More »
The Newport Mall In Jersey City Is Getting A Doner Kebab Spot
The Newport Mall In Jersey City Is Getting A Doner Kebab Spot : This is great news. They better have garlic sauce for the kebabs and pide bread or durum — so damn tired of American Turkish kebab joints that stuff kebab in goddamned dry-ass pita.Bonus points if they’ll put french fries in the sandwich, though I’m not optimistic. Read More »
‘Wi-fi refugees’ shelter in West Virginia mountains
‘Wi-fi refugees’ shelter in West Virginia mountains : BBC claims a remote West Virginia town has become a haven for people who believe they are allergic to mobile phone signals and to wifi networks. Read More »
1 In 6 Americans Lives Below The Poverty Line
1 In 6 Americans Lives Below The Poverty Line : …and we’re still a First World country? Read More »
(via Image of the day: What Picard always orders at Chinese…
(via Image of the day: What Picard always orders at Chinese restaurants | Blastr ) Read More »
“Syrian revolutionaries have launched a variety of Facebook groups that name suspected …
“Syrian revolutionaries have launched a variety of Facebook groups that name suspected government informers and track their daily movements. Citizens are now threatening people named online, GlobalPost reports, even though the anti-informer Facebook groups often contain incorrect information. Read More »
Blogger Carves Out Niche Baring Israeli Intel Secrets
Blogger Carves Out Niche Baring Israeli Intel Secrets : The Forward just ran a fascinating profile of Richard Silverstein, a Jewish-American blogger in Seattle who routinely spills Israeli intelligence secrets and reports on stories under gag order in the .il press on his blog.Stories like this are incredibly interesting. Read More »
I just wrote for Fast Company about how Libyan rebels built…
I just wrote for Fast Company about how Libyan rebels built their own DIY arsenal of homemade rocket launchers and tanks. Max Max meets MacGuyver — very cool. Read More »
NYC: Endangered Language Capital Of The World
NYC: Endangered Language Capital Of The World : Linguists hanging out in Queens and Brooklyn have been able to find speakers of amazing languages. Roosevelt Avenue in Queens appears to be a hotspot for endangered language speakers. Read More »
From The Onion, for my Philly friends. (via Philadelphia Goes…
From The Onion , for my Philly friends. (via Philadelphia Goes Way Overboard On 9/11 Security For Liberty Bell | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source ) Read More »
Steakhouse Chef Loses 55 Pounds on Caveman Diet
Steakhouse Chef Loses 55 Pounds on Caveman Diet : One more reason why I’m considering a caveman/paleo/Whole 30 diet. I don’t need to lose 50 pounds, but this gut needs to shrink if my jogging and biking are gonna continue on schedule. Read More »
Battles. This band has been restoring my faith in loud-ass…
Battles. This band has been restoring my faith in loud-ass guitar music. Read More »
WETLANDS Class Of ’96, 15 Year Reunion Party – Brooklyn Bowl – Brooklyn, NY
WETLANDS Class Of ’96, 15 Year Reunion Party – Brooklyn Bowl – Brooklyn, NY : Alright. They’re holding a Wetlands reunion show at Brooklyn Bowl tonight… For those who don’t live in NYC or weren’t there in the 1990s, Wetlands was a tiny hippie-run club on Canal Street that hosted a mix of jam bands, ska and hardcore/punk. Read More »
Truth: For all the BS about high-falutin’ frogs, French…
Truth: For all the BS about high-falutin’ frogs, French people are crazy ameriphiles. latimes : In Paris, they unfurled a giant American flag and framed the Eiffel Tower with Twin Towers made out of scaffolding. Read more about how Sept. 11 was observed worldwide . Read More »
huffingtonpost:“We could see the fire burning [at Ground Zero]…
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huffingtonpost : “We could see the fire burning on our way to school,” said Lila Nordstrom, who was a senior on 9/11. Read More »
Two WTC Memories
1. Students from my high school used to constantly LARP at the World Trade Center. I went to Stuy… we were a nerdy school where weirdness like live action role playing was part of the atmosphere. To this day I can’t think of the former mall in the World Trade Center concourse without thinking of Vampire: The Masquerade.2. Read More »
Nine Eleven Etc Etc
My high school was less than 10 blocks away from the World Trade Center. I used to go after school to the WTC Borders bookstore or to the Taco Bell by the PATH escalators at least twice a week. Later on, I temped for a couple of firms at the WTC. Two of them were on floors in the nineties. Read More »
Mindf*cks
I went to Ground Zero for work today. Packed to the gills with a mix of everything. Uniformed military in ceremonial uniform, undercover counter-terrorism types, screaming truthers, photo-snapping tourists. Had no luck tracking down Paul Simon or James Taylor. Saw lots of television news personalities there. Real craziness. Read More »
News vans are backed up all the way to Stuyvesamt HS covering…
News vans are backed up all the way to Stuyvesamt HS covering the 10th anniversary of Ground Zero. GZ is a mess of truthers, counterterrorism cops and film crews. Surreal scene. Read More »
On Israel & Egypt
The storming of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo is, unfortunately, no great surprise. Down to a man (and woman), every Egyptian I know hates and resents the Israeli government. A good number of them — not all, thankfully — also hate and resent the Israeli people. Read More »
Ultras & The Revolution
Ultras & The Revolution : The Arabist just ran this must-read piece on football “ultras” (what most people in the US know as hooligans) and their role in the Egyptian demonstrations. I’m not surprised one bit — the ultras are fearless bastards and I have no doubt that the Zamalek followers can be crazy street fighters. Read More »
Eyewitness Report From The Storming Of The Israeli Embassy In Cairo
Eyewitness Report From The Storming Of The Israeli Embassy In Cairo : Money quote: “I was there last night and while it’s very possible there were some plants there, there’s no way you can define the event in that way. Read More »
Bloody Hell
NBC was just hacked and protesters stormed the walls of the Israeli embassy in Cairo… I thought Friday night was gonna be a slow news cycle? Read More »
(Wikileaks) – King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia a heavy smoker, regularly receives hormone injections
(Wikileaks) – King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia a heavy smoker, regularly receives hormone injections and “uses Viagra excessively. Read More »
Why the Zagat-Google purchase is all about mobile
Why the Zagat-Google purchase is all about mobile : Just wrote for FastCo Read More »
Hush hush on Egypt’s phantom flight to Israel
Hush hush on Egypt’s phantom flight to Israel : A great article on Air Sinai, aka the “Ghost Airline,” that flies between Egypt and Israel… but it doesn’t exist: So much about this airline is a mystery.The lone ghost-white aircraft – with no logo or name displayed – sits in the far corner of the airfield outside Cairo International Airport. Read More »
…And No More Negev Rock City
I’m winding down this blog and doing something new with my Tumblr setup next week. It’s been 2+ years with the NRC name, which is great — but it’s time to move on. Read More »
Read Jeff Jarvis’ 9/11 Post
Read Jeff Jarvis’ 9/11 Post : This is important. He says it better than I ever could. Read More »
The Mafia Attacks A Bookstore
The Mafia Attacks A Bookstore : But it’s not what you expect… Read More »
Google Acquires Zagat
Google Acquires Zagat : Well, this is certainly a game changer… Read More »
Nazi l0lz
Nazi l0lz : The neo-Nazi British National Party just announced their candidate in the London mayoral race. But there’s a problem…Carlos Cortiglia, the candidate, FOUGHT AGAINST THE BRITISH IN THE FALKLANDS WAR. Not too “British” or “National,” that. Read More »
In A Market The Internet Forgot, Souktel Helps People Find Jobs Via SMS | Fast Company
In A Market The Internet Forgot, Souktel Helps People Find Jobs Via SMS | Fast Company : Truly cool tech article I just wrote. A Palestinian NGO has developed a service that allows the poor to job hunt via SMS text message – no computers or internet involved. Read More »
In Which The Author Blogs About Himself
OK. Any readers of this Tumblog have experience with Whole30 or any paleo diets? I’m strongly considering trying it out for a month and would like to hear feedback from real people. Read More »
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