So, I went to Amazon to order Jon Lee Anderson's forthcoming book, The Fall of Baghdad, which promises to be very good indeed based on his outstanding dispatches from Iraq for the New Yorker.
And Amazon helpfully informs me of this:
"Customers interested in The Fall Of Baghdad may also be interested in:
Baghdad Villa for Sale
Minutes from the Tigress river 1023m2 - $665,000 asking price.
http://www.viviun.com/AD-10115/
Uh huh.
Have a nice weekend.
That is amazing! Sounds like a good investment to me, right? I mean, a stable democracy is right around the corner, you better snatch it up now - it's a BUYERS MARKET! Oy vavoy.
Posted by: Alex | August 30, 2004 at 11:48 AM
$665,000 sounds like a lot to me, but I hear through my connections on the 'Arab street' that you could probably have the place for a case of good whiskey. The keys are in the mailbox.
Posted by: the aardvark | August 31, 2004 at 09:02 AM