Last night: what could be more absurd than the sight of museum employees demonstrating for fair employment conditions? A scraggly group of a few dozen camped out in front of the old town hall (most recently the site of the…
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Category: I won't talk about politics, Politics, promise..., Tel-Aviv, TelAviv things wot do my head in, The City, Uncategorized
Tags: anger, bialik, economics, economy, Hipsters, homeland, inequality, injustice, Israel, protest, social justice, Tel-Aviv, tycoons
Having drinks at Port Said, one of the trendier bars in my neighbourhood, I ran into some old industrial designer friends. We got talking but within a few minutes I realised I was already excluded. Usually I find this upsetting;…
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Category: TelAviv things wot do my head in, The City, Uncategorized
Tags: Amsterdam, bicycles, bike, Great Synagogue, Hajj, Hipsters, Israel, London, New York, pitango, Port Said, Tel-Aviv
Free babysitters in Tel-Aviv are like virgins in a Harem: if they do exist, they’re gone before you know it. So it was in desperation that, when Wife and I realised we hadn’t been out alone in a very, very…
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Category: Dogs, Nom Nom Nom (Food), TelAviv things wot do my head in, The City, Uncategorized
Tags: babysitter, food, Hipsters, Israel, Middle East, parenthood, restaurant, Sodom, Tel-Aviv, Travel and Tourism, vietnamese
Hipster, alcoholic or crack-head?
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So, kicking and screaming, here it is… wait for it… I’m a blogger! I suppose it fits. After all, I’m an unemployed, unpublished author living in the neighbourhood of Tel-Aviv notorious (and much avoided) for its chronic hipsteritis. Inevitable is…
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