A Brief History of All Things Us

It all started with a dream. The dream of a doe-eyed, baby faced adolescent boy who aspired to one day share his love of all things hairy with the world through a mediocre mustache based magazine. One etymology project, four staff members, and five days later, Handlebar Magazine was born. So sit back and shave your worries for later. It's time for the hairy truth.

Thursday, December 6, 2012


Maz Jobrani: Did you hear the one about the Iranian-American?

“A founding member of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour, standup comic Maz Jobrani riffs on the challenges and conflicts of being Iranian-American -- "like, part of me thinks I should have a nuclear program; the other part thinks I can't be trusted ..." Maz Jobrani was a founding member of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour and is now doing solo comedy with the title “brown and friendly”. Basically he is talking about discrimination and racism against foreigners and he talks about xenophobia, which isn’t funny at all but the way he is talking makes you laugh because he can laugh about his self. He is often ponting out that just because he is from an Arabian country doesn’t mean he has mean and evil and destroying thoughts. Stereotypes that’s what it’s all about. I really appreciate this Ted talk because it kind of reflects my situation and exposes the prevalence of xenophobia and isolationism.

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