felix rex moves to Cairo

[SkinnyBenny]

Hey, gang. Just woke up from my LGA-->FRA-->CAI flight and had some killer jetlag.

You're never going to believe this, but I was walking the streets of Cairo today and I ran into Felix Rex! He didn't recognize me, but I snapped a picture of him as he was going by. The Egyptian police almost confiscated my camera, but I was able to convince them to let me keep this one.

Sure was great to see an Expat EMAW today. FelixRex, give me a ring and let's get a KingTutPAK going.




(SD, I haven't forgotten about you.)

CanCo it is good to have you back, glad you landed safely after that long flight.   

And FelixRex: if you don't make this your new avatar then I'm going to steal it and use it myself.

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[hemmy]

My god

[Kat Kid]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/monica-monica-chants-taunt-clinton-egypt-191217298.html

'Monica, Monica' chants taunt Clinton in Egypt

FELIX!!!!

[felix rex]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/monica-monica-chants-taunt-clinton-egypt-191217298.html

'Monica, Monica' chants taunt Clinton in Egypt

FELIX!!!!

 

But srsly, she reserved a room in a hotel right on the main thoroughfare along the Nile, prompting a protest that shut down an entire stretch of the road and really inconveniencing my day.

[felix rex]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/monica-monica-chants-taunt-clinton-egypt-191217298.html

'Monica, Monica' chants taunt Clinton in Egypt

FELIX!!!!

Oh, and her visit also nixed my Tahrir project. Clearance yanked due to heightened security concerns (also no thanks to dumbass Americans who keep taking rough ridin' bus tours across the rough ridin' Sinai).

Fortunately, I met a dude today who's an art history major at the university here. He claims he had a hand in some of the "revolutionary art" in Tahrir Square and also claims his cousin was one of the martyrs. I don't know if he's telling the truth about any of that, but he's going to give me an off-the-books guided tour of all the best (in his opinion) pieces and veracity aside it should be interesting.

[Kat Kid]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/monica-monica-chants-taunt-clinton-egypt-191217298.html

'Monica, Monica' chants taunt Clinton in Egypt

FELIX!!!!

Oh, and her visit also nixed my Tahrir project. Clearance yanked due to heightened security concerns (also no thanks to dumbass Americans who keep taking rough ridin' bus tours across the rough ridin' Sinai).

Fortunately, I met a dude today who's an art history major at the university here. He claims he had a hand in some of the "revolutionary art" in Tahrir Square and also claims his cousin was one of the martyrs. I don't know if he's telling the truth about any of that, but he's going to give me an off-the-books guided tour of all the best (in his opinion) pieces and veracity aside it should be interesting.

Your book idea dead in the water already?  Jesus this middle east has really turned out to be quite the quag-pickle.

[Dr Rick Daris]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/monica-monica-chants-taunt-clinton-egypt-191217298.html

'Monica, Monica' chants taunt Clinton in Egypt

FELIX!!!!

Oh, and her visit also nixed my Tahrir project. Clearance yanked due to heightened security concerns (also no thanks to dumbass Americans who keep taking rough ridin' bus tours across the rough ridin' Sinai).

Fortunately, I met a dude today who's an art history major at the university here. He claims he had a hand in some of the "revolutionary art" in Tahrir Square and also claims his cousin was one of the martyrs. I don't know if he's telling the truth about any of that, but he's going to give me an off-the-books guided tour of all the best (in his opinion) pieces and veracity aside it should be interesting.

in exchange you could show him canco's drawing at the top of this page.

[felix rex]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/monica-monica-chants-taunt-clinton-egypt-191217298.html

'Monica, Monica' chants taunt Clinton in Egypt

FELIX!!!!

Oh, and her visit also nixed my Tahrir project. Clearance yanked due to heightened security concerns (also no thanks to dumbass Americans who keep taking rough ridin' bus tours across the rough ridin' Sinai).

Fortunately, I met a dude today who's an art history major at the university here. He claims he had a hand in some of the "revolutionary art" in Tahrir Square and also claims his cousin was one of the martyrs. I don't know if he's telling the truth about any of that, but he's going to give me an off-the-books guided tour of all the best (in his opinion) pieces and veracity aside it should be interesting.

Your book idea dead in the water already?  Jesus this middle east has really turned out to be quite the quag-pickle.

The official sponsorship has been "indefinitely suspended" because of security concerns. I mean, a couple American christians get kidnapped hundreds of miles of away and everybody freaks the eff out. Also, I never intended it to be a book. It was just going to be sort of a free-lance/spare-time project for a company I worked with in the past.

[SkinnyBenny]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/monica-monica-chants-taunt-clinton-egypt-191217298.html

'Monica, Monica' chants taunt Clinton in Egypt

FELIX!!!!

Oh, and her visit also nixed my Tahrir project. Clearance yanked due to heightened security concerns (also no thanks to dumbass Americans who keep taking rough ridin' bus tours across the rough ridin' Sinai).

Fortunately, I met a dude today who's an art history major at the university here. He claims he had a hand in some of the "revolutionary art" in Tahrir Square and also claims his cousin was one of the martyrs. I don't know if he's telling the truth about any of that, but he's going to give me an off-the-books guided tour of all the best (in his opinion) pieces and veracity aside it should be interesting.

in exchange you could show him canco's drawing at the top of this page.

ya, i can't stop looking at it. Does the mummy represent the KingTutPak CanCo is proposing or is there something I'm missing?

[CanConfirm]

The mummy is drinking the Felix Rex-created drink that's sweeping Cairo: the King Tut. It seems I can't go anywhere in this city without having a mummy offer me one. Hope FR is sharing royalties with goEMAW.


  <--but with King Tuts.

[Cire]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/monica-monica-chants-taunt-clinton-egypt-191217298.html

'Monica, Monica' chants taunt Clinton in Egypt

FELIX!!!!

Oh, and her visit also nixed my Tahrir project. Clearance yanked due to heightened security concerns (also no thanks to dumbass Americans who keep taking rough ridin' bus tours across the rough ridin' Sinai).

Fortunately, I met a dude today who's an art history major at the university here. He claims he had a hand in some of the "revolutionary art" in Tahrir Square and also claims his cousin was one of the martyrs. I don't know if he's telling the truth about any of that, but he's going to give me an off-the-books guided tour of all the best (in his opinion) pieces and veracity aside it should be interesting.

hmmm, sounds like a scene from syriana. 

[felix rex]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/monica-monica-chants-taunt-clinton-egypt-191217298.html

'Monica, Monica' chants taunt Clinton in Egypt

FELIX!!!!

Oh, and her visit also nixed my Tahrir project. Clearance yanked due to heightened security concerns (also no thanks to dumbass Americans who keep taking rough ridin' bus tours across the rough ridin' Sinai).

Fortunately, I met a dude today who's an art history major at the university here. He claims he had a hand in some of the "revolutionary art" in Tahrir Square and also claims his cousin was one of the martyrs. I don't know if he's telling the truth about any of that, but he's going to give me an off-the-books guided tour of all the best (in his opinion) pieces and veracity aside it should be interesting.

hmmm, sounds like a scene from syriana.

Yeah. I like that I discussed this right after ranting about stupid Americans getting kidnapped.

[felix rex]

I whistled for a cab and when it came near, there was Hennessy on the dash and no rear view mirror.

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[EuroCat]

I whistled for a cab and when it came near, there was Hennessy on the dash and no rear view mirror.

 <--but with taxicab hennessey

[Tobias]

looks like ksubrian'sdream has been fully realized

[steve dave]

Have you taken that picture in that pizza hut where you can see the pyramids out the window yet?  there are a billion of those if you search "pizza hut pyramids" in the google image search and it seems like the thing to do. 

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seems like the thing to do. 

With your new pak head on the wall also.

[felix rex]

It's hilarious how popular KFC is here. And since everything delivers in Cairo, you constantly see the KFC motorcycles winding through traffic. I always like when I see one at like 8 am.

Also, Hardee's. Very big here, apparently.

[EuroCat]

It's hilarious how popular KFC is here. And since everything delivers in Cairo, you constantly see the KFC motorcycles winding through traffic. I always like when I see one at like 8 am.

Also, Hardee's. Very big here, apparently.

It's the Halal chicken thing. They're hugely popular everywhere in the middle east.

Also, if you want to be hilariously inundated in American brands go to the citystars mall. I stayed at the Intercontinental attached to it and it's hilarious....like a parody of American suburban mall culture.

[felix rex]

It's hilarious how popular KFC is here. And since everything delivers in Cairo, you constantly see the KFC motorcycles winding through traffic. I always like when I see one at like 8 am.

Also, Hardee's. Very big here, apparently.

It's the Halal chicken thing. They're hugely popular everywhere in the middle east.

Also, if you want to be hilariously inundated in American brands go to the citystars mall. I stayed at the Intercontinental attached to it and it's hilarious....like a parody of American suburban mall culture.

I just went to city stars! OMG it's enormous and full of "not quite right" chain restaurants.

[Dugout DickStone]

It's hilarious how popular KFC is here. And since everything delivers in Cairo, you constantly see the KFC motorcycles winding through traffic. I always like when I see one at like 8 am.

Also, Hardee's. Very big here, apparently.

It's the Halal chicken thing. They're hugely popular everywhere in the middle east.

Also, if you want to be hilariously inundated in American brands go to the citystars mall. I stayed at the Intercontinental attached to it and it's hilarious....like a parody of American suburban mall culture.

I just went to city stars! OMG it's enormous and full of "not quite right" chain restaurants.

Examples?

[felix rex]

It's hilarious how popular KFC is here. And since everything delivers in Cairo, you constantly see the KFC motorcycles winding through traffic. I always like when I see one at like 8 am.

Also, Hardee's. Very big here, apparently.

It's the Halal chicken thing. They're hugely popular everywhere in the middle east.

Also, if you want to be hilariously inundated in American brands go to the citystars mall. I stayed at the Intercontinental attached to it and it's hilarious....like a parody of American suburban mall culture.

I just went to city stars! OMG it's enormous and full of "not quite right" chain restaurants.

Examples?

Pretty much everything in Cairo is "not quite right." The expats apparently get a little exhausted by it and 1-2 times/month they go to city stars, this massive two-towered 9-story mall that kind of insulates you from all that Cairo-ness. It has a 3-D theater with "deluxe" seats that recline and stuff, and it has a food court with things like Johnny Rockets, Macaroni Grill, etc. And the food's pretty close, but there's always something weird or missing. For whatever reason, we ate at "El Chico's" last weekend. I got fajitas. The steak was okay, but the chicken was not seasoned. At all. Also, it came only with some guac, pico, and sour cream (<--wtf?) and a side of fries and corn. One the same plate. It's kind of like that SNL "almost pizza" skit.

They also play a drinking game where the first person to ask "why" about something in Cairo has to buy the next round. It is actually a pretty difficult game. On the way there, my cab passed a bum standing on the off-ramp dressed as a rodeo clown. In the tech stores, they all advertise the new Galaxy III or whatever, but the only model they have out is the dummy version. And it's connected to the anti-theft device. You can't check out the real one. You just have to buy it. In the restaurant, if you order guacamole for the chips, they make this big, benihana rough ridin' production about bringing all the crap out and making it fresh right in front of you. But they leave in some of the peel and they don't have limes (but go very heavy on the cilantro).

Why? For the love of god, why?

[SkinnyBenny]

They also play a drinking game where the first person to ask "why" about something in Cairo has to buy the next round. It is actually a pretty difficult game. On the way there, my cab passed a bum standing on the off-ramp dressed as a rodeo clown. In the tech stores, they all advertise the new Galaxy III or whatever, but the only model they have out is the dummy version. And it's connected to the anti-theft device. You can't check out the real one. You just have to buy it. In the restaurant, if you order guacamole for the chips, they make this big, benihana rough ridin' production about bringing all the crap out and making it fresh right in front of you. But they leave in some of the peel and they don't have limes (but go very heavy on the cilantro).

Why? For the love of god, why?

PAGING USER CANCO

[Cire]

It's hilarious how popular KFC is here. And since everything delivers in Cairo, you constantly see the KFC motorcycles winding through traffic. I always like when I see one at like 8 am.

Also, Hardee's. Very big here, apparently.

It's the Halal chicken thing. They're hugely popular everywhere in the middle east.

Also, if you want to be hilariously inundated in American brands go to the citystars mall. I stayed at the Intercontinental attached to it and it's hilarious....like a parody of American suburban mall culture.

I just went to city stars! OMG it's enormous and full of "not quite right" chain restaurants.

Examples?

Pretty much everything in Cairo is "not quite right." The expats apparently get a little exhausted by it and 1-2 times/month they go to city stars, this massive two-towered 9-story mall that kind of insulates you from all that Cairo-ness. It has a 3-D theater with "deluxe" seats that recline and stuff, and it has a food court with things like Johnny Rockets, Macaroni Grill, etc. And the food's pretty close, but there's always something weird or missing. For whatever reason, we ate at "El Chico's" last weekend. I got fajitas. The steak was okay, but the chicken was not seasoned. At all. Also, it came only with some guac, pico, and sour cream (<--wtf?) and a side of fries and corn. One the same plate. It's kind of like that SNL "almost pizza" skit.

They also play a drinking game where the first person to ask "why" about something in Cairo has to buy the next round. It is actually a pretty difficult game. On the way there, my cab passed a bum standing on the off-ramp dressed as a rodeo clown. In the tech stores, they all advertise the new Galaxy III or whatever, but the only model they have out is the dummy version. And it's connected to the anti-theft device. You can't check out the real one. You just have to buy it. In the restaurant, if you order guacamole for the chips, they make this big, benihana rough ridin' production about bringing all the crap out and making it fresh right in front of you. But they leave in some of the peel and they don't have limes (but go very heavy on the cilantro).

Why? For the love of god, why?

sounds like purgatory.  how about falafel etc.