Saman Begins

This is my first attempt at the phenomenon of web-logging. In the event that someone reads this, I would appreciate a short email to that effect.

To start, a few words about me: I did not have a tragic childhood and have contended myself to study criminal behavior through books, mass media and briefly working for Zhone Technologies, rather than traveling to the Far East. I’ve never met Katie Holmes so I don’t think she can say that Tom Cruise is the “most amazing man in the world” . . . I don’t wear a cape and my friends refer to my car as the Yellow School Bus or, more affectionately, as the “shole zard mobile” (the yellow Persian rice pudding mobile).

I’ve just finished my degree in Architecture and will go to Barcelona, Spain today for a six-month internship – I’ve never been there, but it sounds like a fascinating place.

The name of my web-log (or is it weblog?) should be obvious to the fans of “samad” movies. Parviz Sayyad, the great Iranian comedic actor, created the character of “samad” (the “a’s” are pronounced just like the ones in Batman). Samad was a not-so-simple country boy whose adventures made for funny stories. One of the characters in the series was “aynollah bagherzadah” – he liked to be called by his last name, “bagherzadah”. Aynollah was sent by his father – the village’s mayor – to the City to make something of himself. When he returned (not having made anything of himself), regardless of the situation, aynollah would begin his contribution by saying “in the City, some suggestions were made to me . . . “.