Free internet access from your apartment – quite civilized. Found a better shewarma place tonight – a feast for $2.50. And then sheesha, coffee, and tea for a buck twenty-five.

A soccer game blared in the sheesha house as a packed audience screamed even louder than the set when a team scored. I knew the game was over when everyone cheered and ran out onto the street en masse – no celebrating though, just walking home. I am a stranger – people can tell by my inability to talk and my new york review. By the way, Juice, Joan Didion made mention of the radical cheerleaders in a recent issue. They’ve hit the big time.