Africans to Bono: 'For God's sake please stop!'

"He represents a game we have all played for nearly fifty years whose only winners have been corrupt governments and the international development industry."

glastonbury banksy

mirror

Earth Day - US Government Portal

Earth Day

(you've either gotta laugh or weep)

Sorry About Our President

Sorry About Their President

Kurt Vonnegut Jr
1922 - 2007

we are spartans!

aurora

Supervillain Hideout

The American Taliban

takujauqujaujuqtauq



"the disappointment one feels on drawing back the curtains in the morning and discovering that the blanket of thick silent snow that is covering every other square inch of the country has a snow-less hole in it right here where one lives"

(cambridge inuktitut dictionary)

the white rose society

"Nothing is so unworthy of a civilized nation as allowing itself to be 'governed' without opposition by an irresponsible clique that has yielded to base instinct."

car park



(needs flash)

tony: should I stay or should I go?
(click on youtube clip)

Moonlight Sonata



Ignacy Jan Paderewski (November 6, 1860 - June 29, 1941) OBE was a Polish pianist, composer, diplomat and politician, and the third Prime Minister of Poland.
this is a piano roll recording he made in 1914 of the first and second movements of Beethoven's Sonata Op.27 No.2: (click here)

(more such goodies here)

decisive moment

resolution


to accept the cruel curse of mediocrity, and to scorn it

both as producer and as consumer, therefore, henceforth to eschew :

pictorialism in any form

the exoticism of poverty

the 'innocence' of children

the alluring 'beauty' of nature

the cuteness of pets

the otherness of animals

the celebration of the trivial

the trivialisation of the sacred

'war-torn' photojournalism - the porn of the culturally anaesthetised

the image whose only raison d'être is envy (that I were there rather than here)

the image whose only raison d'être is relief (that I'm here rather than there)

at least, until the snow comes ...

Battle of the Drums

please call stella

morality test