I finally finished Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. I left it at work over the weekend with a mere 20 pages left, and I was itching to see it out. It was very moving for something super surreal, leaving it very murky what is real and dream — the blurred lines were nice. You can read the first chapter here, and I enjoyed this NY Times review.

Also got the latest Bidoun — what a fabulous magazine! It never fails to provide something that strikes me. Alas, the article about Eldridge Cleaver isn’t online. It’s quite something. Where else could you find a story about “taqwacore” — a Muslim punk/hardcore. (Clearly, The Taqwacores needs to be next on my reading list.)

Back to my failing Ubuntu installation…