advantage: my old neighborhood

Apparently Nidal Malik Hasan, better known as the Fort Hood shooter, attended mosque disturbingly close to where Pnin used to live. On a more positive note, living near a vibrant Muslim community had its real advantages -- notably Bamian, which had fantastic lamb dumplings in some sort of minty yogurt sauce.

No, this is not a real post. Yes, I intend to start putting up real posts sometime in the near future.