from the Independent: Michael Jackson – Fulham’s chairman Mohammed al Fayed says that fans can “go to hell” if they don’t like the new statue of the pop legend Ed. Seattle has Lenin and London has the successor to the Beetles. Makes sense to me! [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Art’
Sunday Revelations: Chernobyl Legacy
Photography of sick children in Chernobyl by Paul Fusco. Ed. To be fair, I have no way of knowing whether these kids’ illnesses are due to the Chernobyl meltdown. Whatever the truth , the horror is overwhelming. I wonder whether the cloak of compassion we hear from the Christian right [...]
Governor LePage can’t erase history
“Maine Governor Paul LePage has ordered state workers to remove from the state labor department a 36-foot mural depicting the state’s labor history. Among other things the mural illustrates the 1937 shoe mill strike in Auburn and Lewiston. It also features the iconic “Rosie the Riveter,”[...]
April 1st, 2011 - 11:35 am § in America
The Islamocommies are coming!
From the New American: In an interview with the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun, on July 4, 1925, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was asked if he thought that the revolutionary turmoil in China, India, Persia, Egypt, and other Eastern countries was a sign that the Western powers had dug themselves graves in[...]
April 1st, 2011 - 12:32 am § in Uncategorized
Economy Improving, Price of Turner Oil is Up!
Turner oil breaks artist record A Turner masterpiece of a view over Rome sells for £29.7m at Sotheby’s in London, breaking the artist’s record at auction.[...]
HUMOR: Banning Art … Stalinism Spreads to Amerika
Ed. One of the common features of Hitler and Stalin was their incredible good taste in art. As we all know, their era led to some of the greatest art works of all time. Since the fall of totalitarians, the art world has decayed into a morass of immoral “works” that discourage us al[...]
March 17th, 2011 - 12:00 pm § in Uncategorized
St. Patty’s Day! Hamlet was an Irishman!
HAPPY ST. PATTY’s DAY Admlithi of Eire (the ”d” is silent) became Hamlet of Elsinore Lisa Collinson at the University of Aberdeen has traced the origins to a little known Irish tale called the ”Destruction of Da Derga”s Hostel’.’ The common wisdom has been t[...]