Tag Archives: Franz Kafka

hayseeds go back to the country

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Dave

To everything there is a season. And a reason? Its not easy to get at the root causes of Arab world anti-Westernism. it does not seem like a pure hate, but rather the antagonism of the love-hate relationship, like intense … Continue reading →

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its raining mullahs

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Dave

Get real. the victim complex. Poor fellow subdued by an Amazon of his own imagination. Violence by women against men. What is the punishment and could it possibly fit the crime. Women are pushing the boundaries, crossing Netanyahu’s Red Line. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Anna Gurji, Franz Kafka, Innocence of Muslims film, Iran Morality police, Iranian Cleric Ali Beheshti, John Wayne, Johnny Lydon, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, PIL Public Image Limited, Theda Bara | Leave a comment

obamarama: once upon a time in the west

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Dave

Barack Obama and the slogan for 2012: “Go Forward” well defined theme that captures the leftist messianism that seems so misguided, corrupted and dysfunctional. A messianic pursuit of secular divinity and backed by trashy rags like the New York Times, … Continue reading →

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yuk yuk: cross your fingers not your legs…

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Dave

Is comedy universal? Brass knuckles interfaith hard ball comedy. The dilemma of comedy being “pure” without the baggage of tradition and history. The recent trip of Mark Breslin and Yuk Yuks on “goodwill” tour of Israel is proof is that … Continue reading →

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knocking on the cones of silence

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Dave

How did we get into this mess and is there any way to get out? We seem to be on the precipice of nihilism. A triumph of destruction.The final trashing of sound values and tradition. Everything as a giant ponzi … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andy Warhol Mao Zedong, Bernie Madoff, Bob Diamond Barclays, Charles Bronson, Don Adams Get Smart, Franz Kafka, Franz Munterfering, Get Smart Cone of Silence, LIBOR rate fixing scandal, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maimonides Treatise on Logic, Mao Zedong, Marcel Duchamp, Marcus Agius, mark blyth brown university, Maxwell Smart, Michael Moore, Nouriel Roubini, paul raffaele, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

stimulus projects: shovel ready redemption

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Dave

…Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes part of the ceremony. Kafka, Parables and … Continue reading →

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rate fetish: the price is right

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Dave

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Bob Diamond Barclays, Charles Bronson, edward g. robinson, Franz Kafka, Guy Debord, harry joy photography, LIBOR rate fixing scandal, Max Horkheimer, Patrick Jenkins Financial Times, Philip Augar, Theodor Adorno | Leave a comment

one day there time will surely come

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Dave

Nothing like a little heresy to reinflate the sagging body of the church. The heresy of twenty plus centuries, as infinite as private choice , is hardly random, but keeps to certain well-defined channels. Past the multitudinous polysyllabic channels to … Continue reading →

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faking the real: postures in palestine

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Dave

A modern aesthetic rebellion against bourgeois existence. Its an ambiguous rhetoric, an in-between, between aesthetic and political radicalism that never commits to either; like the British promising the same dunams of land to jew and arab. As protest, it is … Continue reading →

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modernism: press the refresh button

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Dave

Modernism as a ready made. The break with the past; the discarding of tradition. The shock of the new. Modernism struck at the heart of the conventional wisdom in the arts which meant that an aesthetic of plot, dramatic incident … Continue reading →