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                                                                                                                    On the way back home, Hossein
             By: Maziar Ghaderi                                                                                     told his dark tales of the many
                                                                                                                    ghosts that he has seen in his
                                                                                                                    life. Like the 3-year old hole
                                                                                                                    that our neighbor has left in her
                                                                                                                    backyard, and how she finally
                                                                                                                    decided to fill it in the other day.
                                                                                                                    In the rain, no less. Or the fact
                                                                                                                    that she would ask her dog
                                                                                                                    questions in the afternoons.

                                                                                                                    You see, for my father, the
                                    Paranormal Parents                                                              would dare to understand is             1389 دی 24 هعمج  -  1117 هرامش  / هیجدهی لاس
                                                                                                                    strangeness that none of us

                                                                                                                    more than enough paranormal
                                               & Seductive
                                                                                                                    activity that he would ever want
                                                                                                                    in his life.
                                              Showerheads                                                           "The vorld is sick now, you see?


                                                                                                                    Ghosts, man of iron, Will Smith
                                                                                                                    son do Chinese kick. It too much!
                                                                                                                    Ve leave the Iran of bad guy and
                                                                                                                    come to Ka-na-da to be happy
                                                                                                                    free and you pay to vatch more
                                                                                                                    bad guy? You have problem!"

                                                                                                                    Well,  ladies and gentlemen he
                                                                                                                    does have a point. Maybe us,
                                                                                                                    first-world kids are thirsting for
                                                                                                                    that thrill to drive some true grit
                                                                                                                    into are safe, soft lives. And
                                                                                                                    while not finding it around us, we
                                                                                                                    resort to a torrent file or a shiny
                                                                                                                    remote control. In short, life is
          I watched Paranormal Activity  home with her stud boyfriend,  requests for a screening on the             too boring. We crave that scare.
          in my girlfriend's bedroom and  Micah, in a Whale's Vagina, or  'Demand It' site, then they would         The adrenaline rush, I suppose.
          it made me think that there  more commonly known  as San  show it in the corresponding                    The mystery of the unknown.
          must not be a God, but a Devil  Diego (for more etymological  cities. The buzz caught on and in                                                 In touch with Iranian diversity
          watching over us. Only a Devil  history of southern Californian  only 4 days, more than a million         "You better vhen you don't know.
          would allow for such media to  cities, please watch Will Ferrel's  demanded it.                           You vant the scare yes? You
          enter into my eyes. Only a Devil  Anchorman).                                                             sleep now, I come in room in
          indeed.                                                                The director used his own home     dark and show. In morning you
                                             During the night when the young  to film the movie on an alleged       give me $10, ok toof guy?"
          But of course there is no God,  couple retires, the weirdness  $15,000 budget and then turned
          but that's not the point. The  creeps through the darkness and  around to earn $193,355,800               I nodded. I smiled.
          point is that I showed this  some ungodly shit goes down.              in gross revenues, making it
          mockumentary to my mother,                                             one of the most profitable films   And  for  the  record,  the  only
          Pari, and convinced her it was  Me thought that this would give  of all time based on return on           reason I've been crashing at
          real. Yes folks, I dids. So...do  mother dearest a nice scare, but  investment. And Paranormal            my lady's apartment since
          you still believe in God?          I failed miserably.                 Activity 3 has already begun       then, is because of the quality
                                                                                 filming and will be out in October   of the showerheads. Yes, the
          Anyways, I set up the MacBook  Since this film is a few years  2011. All this was much more               showerheads. And why not?
          for her in the living room and  old, and that its sequel has been  entertaining to Pari than doors        Decent water pressure while
          dimmed the lights so she would  making a killing in the box office  creaking or some shadows in           bathing is  far more important
          get the full effect of its slow  this past Halloween, I won't be  the dark.                               than the once-distant, tangible
          terror. Promptly, I left for the  shy to spoil the ending for you.                                        personification of the on-screen
          pool with father and returned to                                       "Vealy? So much money! You         demons that now know where I
          find her calmly making a potato  You see, even when she thought  should do that! Ve do in house           sleep.                                  Vol. 18 / No. 1117 - Friday, Jan. 14, 2011
          omelette in the kitchen.           that she just saw the weird  now. No problem".
                                             death of two young people in                                           I ain't scared of no ghost.
          "I vas vaiting to see the ghost!  their home, she wasn't nearly as  The  following  Halloween  night,
          Vhat happen?" she says to me  scared as I was when I saw it.           the girlfriend and I took Pari and   ------
          in her Farsi accent and I couldn't                                     my father, Hossein, to see the     www.shahrgon.com
          be any more disappointed.          "That poor guy. Micah. His  sequel at SilverCity. They upped
                                             girlfriend vent crazy. Sometime  the budget 200 times over and
          For those who haven't seen  it happen. Common with this  threw in a kid and a dog for
          it yet, Paranormal Activity is  Christian guys. So crazy. Ve  heightened             suspense.     Pari
          a 2007 poltergeist film with  don't have that. No. No. Devil  loved it, with jerks of laughter as
          only two main actors and one  and stuff. And then police come  she held her head with her palm.
          camera, portrayed in the 'found  and vah vah" Pari continued  Hossien walked out mid-way in
          footage' style similar to the 2008  slapping her left hand with her  disgust.
          monster flick, Cloverfield.        right.
                                                                                 "Vhat is that you pay to see? Life
          Katie, the  female role  has  In fact, what she reacted to most  has too many ghost now, and                                                    46
          had occurrences of ghostly  was the success story behind  you vanna pay $10 dollar to see
          behavior since she was a teen,  the film. Paramount Studios  more?" he flared in the parking
          and has recently purchased a  said that if the film gets 1 million  lot.
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