Know what is great about having such a small audience for one’s show is that I can say Happy Birthday Hagar and no-one knows what the ‘f’ we’re talking about! Like, ‘didn’t we read somewhere about this new super Sino=Soviet thing that’s happening’? Go to sleep sweetheart, you have a big day tomorrow making folk laugh after that arsehole blogger , who nobody reads, said you weren’t funny! And the President of Ukraine used to be a comedian. Someone in Russia’s still laughing! It’s a Siberian thing…. Is that hubris? Who doesn’t love Ukrainian lentils. Me feels a song a-comin’ Nathan. In my head! In a very dystopian way, one time I needed you. In a very dystopian way you was my friend…
See: now I’ve started one needs to finish. Sure, speak for all those Picasso women. Like they saw any of the money. Hey, ho, we’ll catch up some other time…don’t hear any complaints in the art world.
I’ve never been to Oaxaca but I imagine it resembles Denver.
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Is this a silly question? But when we can land a Mars rover almost on the head of a pin or the Parker probe gets up close and personal with the sun without frying: why is there so much civil death and destruction in the Ukraine if only military is targeted? Does beggar belief . Can’t be that Russian soldiers are useless or badly trained.
Some really interesting brilliant adventures on Aljazeera’s coverage of the world. It does make people’s obsession with the universe of celebrification rather pathetic. Do people need “someone to look up to”? One can hear a voice from Russia or the Ukraine or Nepal and not feel so alone. A film, a TV series, a song let alone a sporting achievement. Do we need all this ‘heroic stuff’ in our lives? Yet in so many ways ‘that’s my story’ we think. Hasn’t this always been true for kids? He or she’s the same age, or the same color, wow! Now alas with social media it’s a double-edged wand.
Behind China’s Rise in the Arctic
Isn’t it taking diversity a little far President Zelenskyy to have one-eyed fighter pilots and 3-legged Russian blue co-cats? It is said that the ‘R&Bs’ train their owners rather than the other way ‘round. Hmmm: cats do have good night vision. The truth is always stranger than the fiction!
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.
― James Baldwin
Was just watching the latest UN Security Council meeting (5.30pm EST March7). It is totally disrespectful for Ukraine’s Ambassador to use the term “mental illness” in that context. Whatever one may think of Putin and his inner circle, they are not “mentally ill”. His plan, tactics, and instrumentation may be horrific to most. There is nothing “mentally ill” about it. He may have miscalculated Ukrainian defiance etc etc but the bottom line was and still is: if Putin wanted to take Ukraine he could and would have albeit with huge human loss of life. That clearly isn’t want he wants. No chess game here and yet. If he really wanted to be gone of his opponent he would have poisoned them or some such. That rings some bells.
It is morally reprehensible for a UN Ambassador to incant “mental illness” to support their moral cause. Some of the world’s greatest innovators, artists, thinkers, adventurers were termed “mentally ill’. Alas, Putin is not one of those. He’s a fairly good chess player. He knows most of the moves. He’s read the books. Most probably more so than the West. Maybe he thinks he knows the endgame. Most certainly he has no doubt that he will win.
No “mental illness” here Mr. Ambassador.
Tell me that these folk at the Outsider Art Fair aren’t worth contemplating. Photos from 2020 before the Fall of Covid.
Bobby Fischer Against The World
Better not steal KITTY’s script you greedy talentless creatures. She’ll be there pronto “calling you-u u u” in a ‘Mog-1’. Over the hill, you bet your daisies! Who knew cats could fly?! As President Zelenskyy spake once after elected “anything is possible”.
Like, really, a Putin apologist?! Think I now know who really stole the ‘d’ letter offa Hollywood. Hint, no horsin’ around. Always starts with a ‘D’. Doesn’t it? Easy to see why my comedy never became a commodity and I never became a President. Nor did Camoo. And to be fair, doesn’t a double ‘y’ arouse suspicions? So who cares about maket share.
Hear that new study about alcohol taking 10 years off your life? Not sure if that included the rear flank libation. Just glad one less a life decade to worry about. Better to have loved and lost than…ummmm?
Come on. What are you waiting for? Siberia? Husky cat rescues Will Ferrell from, ymmm, Princess Boredom?
So here’s the pitch. Imagine: young German kid-chen passing as a Ukrainian, stuck in a basement shelter. Explosions above. Her agent (possibly Will Farrell but Carrell will do) going ‘mental’ without wifi and sushi. F ‘one day more’. His eyes alight! Frozen, you’ll become a viral star! Sing kid, or I’ll…
Satre always stole the limelight. Unfaithful SOB. Forget Camoo.
Tomorrow is another day. Particularly if you lose at the Oscars. “Nobody loved me, lady peaceful…”
Do you want to come and pray…?
Ich wohne einige Eis schmerz.
I mean: a female US President paying 6-month ’lip service’ in her trimester to a comet NASA states will destroy the world? Such a stupid pitch. No wonder Carrell was absent in that one Meryl;) Rosemary’s Baby J.L. “OK CreatureCompliance warned me that is genoog”. They still can’t spell gnu.
And, well, I’m doing the weather on Al Jezeera. Very like stroking a creature. Just with less limb loss. Earn the stripes don’y ya. Was that a Kylie song? Aaargh! Yes remember it well….
So, got to thinking. Is there anything that can be constructively added to the coverage of the Ukraine crisis? And Marwan Bishara was clearly on the same page as this website. Ever since Putin made his moves into the Ukraine there was little but children’s responses to a playground bully from Ukrainian representatives. Now: the ‘bully’ may indeed be odious, staking out his territory but how dangerous is this creature. It seemed so counter-productive to hurl allegations of genocide, mental illness, megalomania etc.
You don’t go into a hostage situation and assume you will win. On either side. The security forces goal is to rescue all the hostages unharmed. In order to do that one must understand or at least know what the hostage taker wants. And if indeed they truly know. Are they seeking attention, just letting off steam or are demands clear and concise. Nobody yet knows.
In Putin’s case, he (and his representatives) were crystal clear in their demands from the Ukraine government and have been for a long-time. So when Putin stated it was an intervention and not a war the West didn’t and hadn’t listened. That much is true from Putin. It lead me to thinking about Clausewitz and Jomini, classic texts on the principles of war. Equally my own experiences with many transactions in America. Always very clear and concise, I could never get a straight answer. Then the other side becomes frustrated. Well, it’s a yes or no answer. Or, honestly we don’t know. So much time gets wasted!
If one is staging a show or helming a movie the ‘oh maybe’ folk are useless. Let us create dreams but practically how is that achieved? There are many brilliant tacticians in that regard. One is blessed if they are also dreamers.
Putin doesn’t want to ‘win’ or destroy the Ukraine. He wants Russia’s borders protected. Now Zelenskyy and the West may not agree with that assessment yet they’ve had rather a long time to hear those demands. Putin wasn’t just in a bad mood. Had problems with his mother or girlfriend. Became a nonfunctioning alcoholic. Avoiding this crisis? Hindsight is never very useful after the event.
Meanwhile, innocent Ukrainian (and Russian) people continue to suffer. To die. But the fleeing Ukrainians aren’t hostages. Putin’s intent isn’t to kill them to prove dominance or barter a deal. This isn’t very gripping visual news. The crux of the matter rarely is in politics.
Yo Yo Ma Chat…
Does anyone, apart from my musical comrade Bruce Adolphe, hear a certain Jerome Kern melody there? Then again, was listening to Rachmaninov’s Isle of the Dead and Delerue’s score for Le Mépris popped into my ear. There are only so many notes to choose from. That’s why the avant-garde began slicing them all up and then making ever more sophisticated cocktails. Nothing beats an aged single malt straight up though.
A 101 Contemporary Russian history module. Not sure which university much American news graduated from. The devil is always in the Latin, n’est past Anderson? As they say, 3/4 is company, 5/8 a crowd.
© Rosocha Wieslaw 2016
He lies without moving. The distant sound is heard, as if from the sky, of a breaking string, dying away sadly. Silence follows it, and only the sound is heard, some way away in the orchard, of the axe falling on the trees.
Curtain. -Anton Chekhov
No Time To Die. Suddenly seems somewhat relevant. All just a work of fiction. Definitely the same desk.
