What The Hell Have I Gotten Myself Into?


Well, no one is admitting anyone was wrong. Staaaaay the course there, little fella. The house of cards is tumblin'

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More Signs The End Is Neigh Upon Us

Snowfall In Argentina



For the first time since 1918!

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Bull Gore Better Than Gore's Bull?



Spain's largest fighting bulls lived up to their fearsome reputation, goring two and crushing at least seven people as thousands of daredevils sprinted down narrow streets Sunday in Pamplona's annual running of the bulls.

On the other hand, Live Earth may have been little more than a cynical largest in-kind political contribution in the history of humanity....

De oudste foto van Nederland


Portret van Henri Vriesendorp, gedateerd op 26 juli 1842

Fotografiespecialist Saskia Asser heeft de vermoedelijk oudste foto van Nederland ontdekt. Het gaat om een portret uit juli 1842, van de Dordtse suikerbakker Henri Vriesendorp.

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An Italian scientific study has found particles of cocaine in Rome's air, Italy's national research council (CNR) said Thursday.

Saying No To Burger Imperialism



There aren't many anti-burger bastions left on this planet but Kreuzberg is fighting to remain a McDonald's Free Zone.

"Macht Kaputt was euch kaputt macht"

Radios laufen, Platten laufen,
Filme laufen, TV's laufen,
Reisen kaufen, Autos kaufen,
Häuser kaufen, Möbel kaufen.
Wofür?

Refrain:
Macht kaputt, was euch kaputt macht!
Macht kaputt, was euch kaputt macht!

Züge rollen, Dollars rollen,
Maschinen laufen, Menschen schuften,
Fabriken bauen, Maschinen bauen,
Motoren bauen, Kanonen bauen.
Für wen?

Refrain:

Bomber fliegen, Panzer rollen,
Polizisten schlagen, Soldaten fallen,
Die Chefs schützen, Die Aktien schützen,
Das Recht schützen, Den Staat schützen.
Vor uns!

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Bring back the Big Kahuna...

Hell Has A New Tenant



We can all breath a little easier now. The Hate-Selling Hypocritical Pig Is Dead.

In celebration, have a glance at Top Ten Jerry Falwell Pet Peeves About TV.

And yes, we must all remember how evil the teletubbies were...


Hrmbubmel! Yeah, Jerry Falwell, dead!


One down, one to go

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Och, too long neglected...

Bear Kills Moose

clearly not a headline describing an NBA playoff match...

Hamas TV Pulls Terrorist Mickey Mouse


A program using a Mickey Mouse-like character to urge Palestinian children to fight Israel and the West and work for world Islamic domination has been pulled off Hamas's television station for "review," Palestinian Information Minister Mustafa Barghouti said Wednesday.

Barghouti said the use of the cartoon character in such a role represented a "mistaken approach" to the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation.

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Rufus Wainwright, Going To A Town:



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"Nevertheless, the Sicilian only truly came into its own with the explosion of interest in sharp counter-attacking systems created by the dynamic Soviet School of the 1940s and 1950s." from Mafia Connections

Heart Shaped Box

She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak
Ive been locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks
Ive been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn back (alt: ... when you turn black)

Hey! wait!
Ive got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! wait! (alt: hate! haight!)
Ive got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! wait!
Ive got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Your advice

Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet
Cut myself on angels hair and babys breath
Broken hymen of your highness Im left black
Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back

Hey! wait!
Ive got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! wait!
Ive got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! wait!
Ive got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Your advice

She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak
Ive been locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks
Ive been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn back (alt: ... when you turn black)

Hey! wait!
Ive got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! wait!
Ive got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! wait!
Ive got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice

Your advice (x3)


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and just because tis valentine's holiday, two more:



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les amusements de ce matin



Over in Wijk aan Zee, Topalov increases his lead and other stories.

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"Hurra, Wir Kapitulieren" - Henryk M. Broder on the ugly little secrets of the West and Islam.

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Neil DeGrasse's Death by Black Hole, an initiation into the universe.

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Amusements from the The State of the Union Word Scorecard charting how many words a chimp can intone and how often he intones them. You are getting veeeeeery sleeeeepy.

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Blauwe stilte


Zoals het vliegen druppelt van gebroken vleugels
valt blauwe stilte op steen.
Mijn binnenkant is voortaan de enige plek waar ik reis.
Ik ben de rijstvelden vergeten, de dadelpalmen,
de gewonde zwanen door witte mist omgeven.
Op het paard van mijn portemonnee kwam ik hier aan.
Mijn hart is mijn bankpasje,
de zon, de maan en haar ogen mijn pincode.

En nu ben ik hier, in het koninkrijk
van vallende wateren en opstijgende ambtenaren
als een kwartiertje vertraging in regen.

Mijn vertrek is mijn enige bestaan.

Ik moet gaan,
naar het Zuiden als deze stilte het Noorden,
naar het Noorden als deze stilte het Zuiden is.

Al Galidi

Al Galidi (1971) werd geboren in Irak. Zijn laatste bundel De herfst van Zorro is genomineerd voor de VSB-poëzieprijs 2007

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Hasta Siempre Comandante Che Guevara

Aprendimos a quererte
Desde la historica altura
Donde el sol de tu bravura
Le puso cerco a la muerte

Estribillo:

Aqui se queda la clara
La entraniable transparencia
De tu querida presencia
Comandante Che Gevara

Vienes quemando la brisa
Con soles de primavera
Para plantar la bandera
Con la luz de tu sonrisa

Estribillo

Tu mano gloriosa y fuerte
Sobre la historia dispara
Cuando todo Santa Clara
Se despierta para verte

Estribillo

Seguiremos adelante
Como junto a ti seguimos
Y con Cuba te decimos
Hasta Siempre, Comandante

Estribillo

Or the Disco version....




And, as background, The Gotan Project...

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LA ENAMORADA
-- Alejandra Pizarnik

esta lúgubre manía de vivir
esta recóndita humorada de vivir
te arrastra alejandra no lo niegues.

hoy te miraste en el espejo
y te fue triste estabas sola
la luz rugía el aire cantaba
pero tu amado no volvió

enviarás mensajes sonreirás
tremolarás tus manos así volverá
tu amado tan amado

oyes la demente sirena que lo robó
el barco con barbas de espuma
donde murieron las risas
recuerdas el último abrazo
oh nada de angustias
ríe en el pañuelo llora a carcajadas
pero cierra las puertas de tu rostro
para que no digan luego
que aquella mujer enamorada fuiste tú

te remuerden los días
te culpan las noches
te duele la vida tanto tanto
desesperada ¿adónde vas?
desesperada ¡nada más!

más de Alejandra Pizarnik

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The Sun In Capricorn

-- Joyce Mansour

Three days of rest
Why not the grave
I suffocate without your mouth
Waiting drains the stillborn sunrise
And the long hours on the stairway
Smell of gas
Flat on my face I wait for tomorrow
I see your skin glisten
In the black breach of the night
The slow surge of moonlight
On the inner sea of my sex
Dust on dust
Hammer on mattress
Sun on leaden drum
Still smiling your hand beats indifference
Cruelly clothed bend towards emptiness
You say no and the smallest object a woman’s body can shelter
Bows down
Artificial Nice
Synthetic perfume one hour on the couch
For what pale giraffes
Have I left Byzantium
Solitude stinks
A moonstone in an oval frame
Yet another stiff-jointed bout of insomnia
Once more a dagger throbs in rain
Diamonds and delirum tomorrow’s desiderata
Sweat of taffeta beaches without shelter
Lunacy of my lost faith.

more about Joyce Mansour

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