Paul

Eva Nielsen

Стихи Бориса Парамонова

Стихи Бориса Парамонова. Литературовед в роли графомана. При этом не без влияния Бродского, Лосева, и даже Гандлевского, и т д. Может быть интересно другим литературоведам, как пример тайного корпоративного хобби. Лучше бы Парамонов продолжал писатъ о Гегеле и Лимонове. С другой стороны 30 лет в сонном пригороде НЙ, какая тут жизнь и какая поэзия... Впрочем будем снисходительны, тк всякий имеет право на слабость, даже если ничего другого нет.

PS. Все таки Ирак интересней Кавказа, даже если Кавказ литературнее...

One more reason to indite Condy Rice

joe henry

Lana

Birth of a human mouse

Studio shoot on Saturday

Orlando Figes and others

The latest scandal involving Orlando Figes is indicative of the overall poisonous atmosphere in the academic world. Figes was posting negative reviews of his peers books on Amazon.com. Not only Figes (or his wife who took the responsibility) acted mischievously, but they were also quite naive (or stupid whichever way you like) when executing their malice.

Figes’s on-line alias was linked to his name and job, so it took one of his victims 10 minutes to figure out who the perpetrator was.


Orlando Figes, who was once charatcterized as a leading British historian...

This maronic behavior is not an isolated case among the men (and women) who praise themselves to be the intellectiual elite of humanity. We all remeber Ruth Padel's anonimous letters about Derek Walcott's alleged sexual misconduct. These letters prevented Walcott, the Nobel Prize winner, to become Poetry Professor at Oxford. Padel got the job, but in the end emails' author's identity was discovered and Padel resigned.


Ruth Padel, an eager poet...

Here are the details.

This also reminded us of a story that happened a few years back in Paris when professor Paul Godt, editor of International Political Science Abstracts (a publication of the International Political Science Association) wrote an email to his coleague, detailing a vicious conspiracy against a colleague. A copy of this mail was found in the copying machine by a student...


Paul Godt, the man who tought he could preach "goodness"...

Spring at last

Early Morning Hair Cut on Rue de Rome

William Brui

William Brui, following the opening of Born in the USSR, Made in France exhibit in Paris.

Oan Kim at the Petite Poule Noire gallery in Paris

Highly recommended exhibit:



http://www.lapetitepoulenoire.fr

Oslo airport on Sunday

Mike Rimbaud's new album is coming out in April

Update on The Brave Little Tailor

The sinister story of Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi who killed 7 CIA agents in Afghanistan may become the updated Arab version of Grimm Brothers' Brave Little Taylor tale. It also makes Ignatius/Scott's film Body of Lies look like an childish fantasy of omnipotence, meant to distract attention from the fact that both Jordanian secret service and the US/NATO intelligence apparatus in Afghanistan lack any solid sources. According to the latest US army report, US Army intelligence chiefs in Afghanistan find foreign newspaper articles about the country more useful than the information collected by their own soldiers in the field. According to Maj Gen Michael Flynn and two other intelligence advisers, the huge intelligence apparatus in Afghanistan is "only marginally relevant" to NATO's overall war plan because nearly all of its effort is spent finding Taliban fighters to kill rather than trying to understand the needs and grievances of ordinary Afghan civilians. No Shock and Awe will ever win counter-insurgency, not in Palestine, not in Afghanistan or eslewhere.

Adoration (as seen in KunstMeran)

1 January 2010, at around 6 PM, Monmartre

This man had been following me all day long. When I tried to photograph him, he covered his face.