Absolute Random Nonsense

When I was 14 I was walking through Tajrish Bazaar. There was one sports shop that always had soccer pictures. I noticed this time that they had a sports encyclopedia which had Zico on its cover. Although it wasn't specifically for soccer I took an interest anyway. The price was a steep 120 tomans which I quickly paid before having a chance to change my mind. I began reading and rereading through the soccer parts of it like a regular book. It enabled me to learn alot about past and present soccer players (up till the 1982 World Cup), clubs and stadiums, particularly British ones.  

Adrian Pasdar is an Iranian film, television, and voice actor.  "My father is a plastic surgeon. Both my parents are my heroes. They were able to have a dream and realize it is young. My mother is of Russian origin and father of Iran. They managed to come to the U.S. my father was surgeon in Iran, but when he arrived in America, they announced that he could not exercise. He asked them to pass exams. He had to take tests for a week while he was still learning English. They tried to trap him but he got 100% success. He's a genius, he taught me a lot of compassion."  In 2010 Pasdar was pulled over shortly before 3 a.m. after officers saw his Ford F-150 truck doing 94 mph and straddling two lanes on Interstate 405. The 44-year-old actor was booked for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says he was taken to county jail and released on $15,000 bail.  

During Christmas break of 1993 one day as I was driving to my job at Burger King and fiddling through the stations the Iranian song "Niloofar" started playing. A few days later at home while going through the TV channels I came across the movie "شاید وقتی دیگر". I realized that both the TV and radio stations switched to Iranian programming during certain days and hours of the week. I wondered if it would expand beyond that. It didn't.  

When first meeting Omid Abtahi, you cannot help but to notice his infectious smile and kind eyes.  He may be soft spoken but is direct and clear with the message he sends as an actor.  For someone with so much talent, Omid is quite humble about where his career has been and where it is going. His gratitude hangs onto every statement he makes as well as his excitement and love for what he does.  Abtahi was born on July 12, 1979 in Tehran. At the age of five, he moved to Paris with his family, before again relocating to the United States, to Irvine, Orange County, California, when he was 10. " In 1984, our family immigrated to the US from Iran. Leaving our homeland was hard (especially for my parents) but I would not be who I am, I would not be where I am without their sacrifice." Abtahi voiced the character Mahmoud in the Family Guy episode "Turban Cowboy". In this episode, Mahmoud befriends Peter Griffin in the hospital, introduces him to Islam, and is later reveale...

The university team was much more convenient for me as I was already there and most players were my own age. In spite of the lack of regular competition, Vatankhah ran a very disciplined practice and expected maximum effort from us. We mainly played against other universities although during my time with the team we did play once against a first division team, Bonyad Shahid, that ended in a 2-2 tie. Most of the team had played with each other for some time and knew each other well while I was trying to fit in with them. One day while in the locker room after practice one of the players announced that someone had passed away and that he was collecting money for their wake. He jokingly added that he would not let anyone leave before collecting 100 tomans from them. Once I changed I approached the player and handed him a 100-toman bill. “No, no,” he said. “You don’t have to. You didn’t know the guy.” I insisted that he take it as it would be going to a good cause and he finally reluctan...

Dara Daivari is a professional wrestler who is best known for his work with World Wrestling Entertainment as simply Daivari and with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as Sheik Abdul Bashir. In the WWE Daivari would scream instructions in Persian to Muhammad Hassan when working as his manager.  In 2012 Daivari was on his way to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport via the Hiawatha Line when a fellow passenger began threatening another rider. When he got on the train in the Warehouse District in downtown Minneapolis, there was a “crazy guy on the train screaming stuff,” Daivari said in an interview. He ignored the incident until the “crazy guy,” told to sit down and be quiet, threatened to kill an older passenger, he said,. “People were pushing the emergency call buttons,” Daivari said. “No cops showed up… “We had probably been on the train 15 to 20 minutes … I am not going to wait around to see if they are empty threats.” Daivari said he put the man in a “rear naked chok...

Our phone number at our house in Mirdamad was 227195 which I liked as I could split it evenly into 2 groups of 13. Our number when we moved to Zaferanieh was 271141 which also split evenly, in two groups of 8. Our phone number at our house in Velenjak was 296477 which could not split evenly as it added up to an odd number.  

Despite pleas from her family to have Elnaz Hajtamiri returned home, the woman, who was 37 at the time, has not been seen or heard from since, and police believe she is dead. Investigators said three men wearing balaclavas posing as police officers with a fake warrant for Hajtamiri’s arrest ripped her from the home along Trailwood Place at about 8:30 p.m. on Jan. 12, 2022. Witnesses told police Hajtamiri was loaded barefoot into what investigators believe was a stolen white Lexus SUV. To date 11 men and women have been charged in the case. Mohamad Lilo, Hajtamiri’s ex-boyfriend, is at the center of it all, according to investigators who have charged Lilo with first-degree murder and kidnapping. Police confirmed Hajtamiri worked with Lilo, who ran a shipping container business. Arrested in Quebec months later, Lilo was brought to Ontario and has been behind bars for three-and-a-half years. He is set to stand trial for Hajtamiri’s presumed murder this spring. Lilo was convicted of ag...

In the early 2000s at the end of lunch a coworker went to dump an untouched portion of food in the garbage. I told her not to and that if she did I would reach in and take it out and eat it. I asked her if she had seen the Seinfeld episode when George had done that. She said she had. In spite of her throwing the food away I didn't fish it out of the trash. Years later though I would do so without giving anyone a heads up beforehand. Also she would die a few years after our conversation.