Tag Archives: Tony Blair

lovers and very strangers indeed

Lovers in a dangerous time? Ole’ Tony Blair to the rescue? There’s a life in the balance here! Saif al-Islam Gadhafi is clinging to the wreckage of a Jewish lover in an ironic twist of fate. Maybe Gadhafi was jewish … Continue reading

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intense: back to moses and magic

The intensity of the debate will not be defused. Its an old argument. Revelation versus reason. Certainly, Darwin played an accelerating role, but the old scuffle could go back all the way to Moses and the Pharaohs of Egypt invoking … Continue reading

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fear of a black planet… core values

Thats the title of the advertisement. Its part of the journeys campaign by Louis Vuitton, a real marketing powerhouse. The critique is that this is white patriarchy using the abject poverty of Uganda as a pretext to hawk bling luxury … Continue reading

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peeking around the corner: prophet cafe politics

On December 10, 1926, at 9 P.M. at the Prophet cafe, the surrealists met to decide whether to form an alliance with the Communist party. Antonin Artaud, for whom all political parties were equally irrelevant, displayed a noticeable lack of … Continue reading

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The inferno on a cold January night: air conditioned pure essence

“The Divine Comedy” is one of the great imaginative creations that have been put onto paper. It is sometimes considered the greatest Catholic poem as “Paradise Lost” by Milton is the great Protestant poem. It forms the basis of Italian … Continue reading

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