Wednesday - July 29, 2009
Art vs Porn
Somewhere in one of those Terry Pratchett books, Thud! I think, the Keystone Cops pair of watchmen, Sergeant Colon and Corporal Nobbs, are in the art museum, discussing the difference between art and smut. Cpl. Nobbs, a man so odd looking that he carries a certificate that proves he’s human, has been dating a drop dead bombshell beauty who works as a stripper. (cops are cops everywhere in the multiverse!)
Nobby says that his girlfriend, Tawneee, a pole dancer “says what she does is Art, sarge. And she wears more clothes than a lot of the women on the walls around here, so why be sniffy about it?”
“Yeah, but...” Fred Colon hesitated here. He knew in his heart that spinning around upside down around a pole wearing a costume you could floss with definitely was not Art, and being painted lying on a bed wearing nothing but a smile and a small bunch of grapes was good solid Art, but putting your finger on why this was the case was a bit tricky.
“No urns,” he said at last.
“What urns?” said Nobby.
“Nude women are only Art if there’s an urn in it,” said Fred Colon. This sounded a bit weak even to him, so he added, “or a plinth. Both is best, o’course. It’s a secret sign, see, that they put in to say that it is Art and okay to look at.”
“What about a potted plant?”
“That’s okay if it’s in an urn.”
“What about if it’s not got an urn or a plinth or a potted plant?” said Nobby.
“Have you one in mind, Nobby?” said Colon, suspiciously.
“Yes, The Goddess Anoia arising from the Cutlery,” said Nobby. “They’ve got it here. It was painted by a bloke with three i’s in his name, which sounds pretty artistic to me.”
“The number of i’s is important, Nobby,” said Sergeant Colon gravely, “but in these situations you have to ask yourself: where’s the cherub? If there’s a little fat pink kid holding a mirror or a fan or similar, then it’s still okay. Even if he’s grinning. Obviously you can’t get urns everywhere.”
Decorated firearms are the same way, only no cherubs. Usually. Sometimes you just have to know.
Fer instance ...
This is art
And this is art
Although both might be pretty near the limits of good taste for some folks.
And this is porn
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Permalink • Monday - July 13, 2009
ONE HELL OF A FLY BY, WOULDN’T YA SAY? NOT TOO CERTAIN I’D WANT TO BE ON THAT BALCONY.
Wait a minute. Wouldn’t flying that low lose him lift? OK maybe not but this is hard to believe. It isn’t April 1st tho.
Gee ... talk about a very high wow factor.
Thing is, that guy on the balcony watching. He just looks so casual like it’s an every day event. And what about being that close to a jet engine?
How about the walls and windows in the apt. complex? Wouldn’t they suffer some damage?
I’m just trying to figure out if it’s a hoax. It was published a short time ago (an hour ago) in the Mail.
Now that’s what I call a fly-past: US Navy F18 streaks past apartment block
By Mail Foreign Service
Last updated at 1:27 PM on 13th July 2009This is the moment a a US Navy pilot gave a shocked resident a very close look at his F18.
The fighter/bomber streaked past an apartment block on the banks of the Detroit River at the weekend.
It was part of a tactical demonstration fly-past to open a speedboat race in the North American city.
Officials waived rules to allow the Navy flyers to swoop under 100ft along the waterway.
One resident said: ‘I couldn’t believe how low they flew and how close they came to our building - I’m sure the pilot waved at me.’
The jets had flown in from the Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia to put on a spectacular show for thousands of spectators.
The Chrysler Jeep Superstores APBA Gold Cup race was won by speedboat ace Dave Villcock.
‘We danced with the devil at every turn,’ said Villwock, 55, who demolished the field on his way to his seventh Gold Cup win.
‘We were either going to win it big or lose it big.’
He couldn’t match the F15s for speed, although his average of 141mph for the five-lap final remained impressive.
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Permalink • Monday - June 15, 2009
Pablo Picasso family reignites ‘wicked stepmother’ feud. Ah the bizarre world of art. Ar
Yeah I guess it technically is that.
I always thought Picasso was a bit weird and can’t quite grasp what makes him “a great artist.” As opposed to a painter. Whatever ..
Apparently he wasn’t alone among his family and others close by who were bizarre. And imagine drinking bleach to commit suicide.
By, Matthew Campbell
The Sunday TimesThe tragic legacy of one of the greatest figures in 20th-century art will be highlighted this week in a Paris court where Pablo Picasso’s granddaughter is defending the name of her brother, who killed himself by drinking bleach.
Marina Picasso is suing Pepita Dupont, an author, for claiming that her brother Pablito once tried to burgle his grandfather’s home under the influence of drugs. The case is the fourth by Picasso relatives against Dupont and the latest episode in decades of feuds and legal wrangling over the painter’s legacy.
Dupont’s The Truth About Jacqueline and Pablo Picasso challenges the “wicked stepmother” image that has clung to Jacqueline, the painter’s last wife, since she prevented Picasso’s children and grandchildren from attending his funeral in 1973.
Pablito drank a bottle of bleach the next day and had an agonising death. Marina, whose own book about Picasso portrayed the artist as a monster “who had to destroy everything that got in the way of his creation”, blames Jacqueline for the death. Dupont said: “It’s very sad that he killed himself, but Pablito’s depression was not just because he could not see his grandfather.”
Pablito was not the only victim among the heirs of the artist: Jacqueline, who shared the last 20 years of Picasso’s life, shot herself in the head in 1986; Marie-Thérèse Walter, one of his muses from the 1920s, hanged herself in 1977.
Marina, 58, spent 14 years in psychoanalysis, marked by uncontrollable tears and fainting fits. She fell out with other heirs of the artist, accusing them of greed and “bad taste” in selling the family name to Citroën for its people carrier.
Contrary to the stepchildren’s account of Jacqueline “kidnapping” a frail Picasso to keep him away from them, Dupont claims she loved them as her own. Relations soured only when Claude and Paloma, Picasso’s children by Françoise Gilot, whom he never married, took him to court to be recognised as legitimate heirs.
“She was simply following Picasso’s instructions when she ordered them not to come to the funeral,” said Dupont.
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Permalink • Monday - May 04, 2009
WHY THE HECK DO COUNTRIES AND STATES NEED POET LAUREATES? WHAT’S THE POINT?
Hey, ya have to make allowances for us barbarians. I don’t understand this stuff and if you do for heaven sake explain it to me so I can quit looking silly here. I never understand what these folks are saying and I strongly suspect not even other poets do. But many pretend to follow the bouncing ball
wherever it goes so they can can feel superior. Or if not that, then at least “in the know.” And to pay them almost $10,000 a year? Come on. That’s taxpayer money. Alright. It’s arty stuff.
But I buy NONE of it.
I am not posting the entire article and in fact darn little of it but here’s a link to it all. If you really care and some may. To each his own but I don’t think the taxpayer should have to fund some artists ego. ART STUFF
Carol Ann Duffy: The original good line girl
Feisty, nosy and tough, the new laureate is a bisexual single mother who promises to be a ‘poet of the family’From The Sunday Times
Daisy GoodwinWhen Carol Ann Duffy rang on Monday to say she was going to be the new laureate, I was thrilled, not just at the success of a friend but because she is my favourite living poet. The week brought a flurry of press reports about her “dithering”. Anxious, I called her as she was getting out of a taxi. “Dithering!” she said, laughing. “I’ve just been to the hairdressers! Of course I’m taking the job.”
She is passionate about education and the importance of teaching poetry in schools and says listening to a poet at an impressiona-ble age can permanently transform the contour of a child’s imagination. I suspect one of the reasons she has taken on the laureateship is so that she can kick up a serious fuss about the teaching of poetry in schools.
She should know. “Last summer an invigilator called Mrs Schofield peeped over a GCSE candidate’s shoulder and read my poem
Education for Leisure, which contained the lines, ‘Today I am going to kill something. Anything. / I have had enough of being ignored and today / I am going to play God.’ And because she didn’t understand it, and took it literally, she complained to the examining body.” Carol Ann didn’t get mad; she got even, and has written a poem, Mrs Schofield’s GCSE, about the numerous stabbings in Shakespeare.
OK .. Here’s the wonderfully arty-farty hugely intellectual deep gobbly-gook.
The banned poemToday I am going to kill something. Anything.
I have had enough of being ignored and today
I am going to play God. It is an ordinary day,
a sort of grey with boredom stirring in the streets . . .. . .There is nothing left to kill. I dial the radio
and tell the man he’s talking to a superstar.
he cuts me off. I get our bread-knife and go out.
the pavements glitter suddenly. I touch your arm.From Education for Leisure
Had enough? OK ... how about this?
I’m not the first or the last
to stand on a hillock
watching the man she married
prove to the world
he’s a total, absolute,utter grade A pillock.
What’s so poetic about that? And is it worth £5,000 a year?
Why does the country need that? Except for her salary, who gains anything?
Besides, I thought times were supposed to be tough right now and there was supposed to be some govt. belt tightening. Oh right.
Only those who must pay for poets must tighten their collective belts else where’s the money gonna come from?
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Permalink • Thursday - April 16, 2009
if you had the money, would you spend about $20,000 to look like your children? She did.
When I first saw this, and I’m still not convinced there isn’t a mistake in the photo caption, I was going to pass it by as just more fluff and go for more serious stuff. But then I read the caption and thought HUH? Can’t be.
Is it me or do any of you find that the daughter actually looks more like the mother in age appearance. And the mom looks better. ????
LOOK HERE FOR BEFORE AND AFTER SHOTS.
The 50-year-old mother who has spent £10,000 on surgery to look like her daughterBy Katherine Knight and Kelly Strange
Last updated at 8:22 AM on 16th April 2009
With their flowing blonde hair, hourglass figures and slender, toned legs, they could easily pass for twins. Both look fabulous in their matching polka dot dresses and, as Janet and Jane Cunliffe happily recount, potential boyfriends often struggle to tell them apart.
the boyfriends struggle to what? guys are smart huh? you bet. what male is gonna tell his girlfriend he thinks she’s her mom. it’s like when a lady asks you how a dress looks on her or do you think she’s a bit heavy. the answer is ALWAYS, the dress looks great because you make it look great. and heavy? NO WAY. do I look okay? ABSOLUTELY! you look great. she won’t believe a word you say but its what she wants to hear. i have this sort of silly theory which of course I can not prove. we guys were put here to make women happy and yeah spoil em too if it comes to that. why the heck not? so if a small fib will make em happy or pleased about themselves, aren’t they damn well worth it? i think they are.
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Hardly surprising, as both weigh in at 8st and, save for a couple of inches in height (at 5ft 6in, Jane is two inches taller) and different eye colours (Jane’s are brown, Janet’s are blue) they are virtually identical.
But Janet and Jane are not twins. They aren’t even sisters. They are mother and daughter. And, in what many will see as a depressing indictment of today’s youth-obsessed society, Janet confesses to having spent more than £10,000 on plastic surgery in a desperate effort to bridge the 22-year age gap between herself and her daughter.
In this image-conscious age, it is a bittersweet moment for many mothers to confront the fact that their daughter’s beauty eclipses her own.
It is a rite of passage that most women, while far from thrilled, are pragmatic enough to accept as a part of life.
But not 50-year-old Janet. She views the small matter of being in her sixth decade as a mere technicality.
She is amused and proud that friends jokingly refer to her and her daughter as Paris and Chantelle after the platinum blonde socialite and the equally platinum former Celebrity Big Brother contestant.
Some might see this as empowering for a woman who is well into middle age. Others might take the view that it is contrary to the laws of Mother Nature - not that Janet has much truck with her anyway.
‘Who wouldn’t want to look like my daughter?’As she told the Mail this week: ‘It might sound barmy that I had cosmetic surgery to look like my daughter, but she’s gorgeous. Who wouldn’t want to look like her?
‘The way I see it is that she got her looks from me in the first place - mine have just faded with age.
‘Seeing how attractive Jane is made me want to get my looks back. Now instead of mum and daughter we look more like twins. I had good genes and good skin, but I needed a helping hand to make me feel better about myself.’
Certainly Janet wasn’t always such a head-turner. Just a few years ago, she was a size 14 redhead and felt, she says, dowdy and unattractive.
Not, she insists, that she was ever vain. ‘I didn’t have time for vanity in my 20s as I was too busy bringing up Jane and her brother, Pete,’ she says.
‘I didn’t pay much attention to myself.’
That changed as she entered her 30s and became increasingly disconsolate with her changing figure.
‘Like any woman who’s had children, gravity had started to take its toll on my breasts,’ she says.
Oh right. Almost forgot. The MOM is the one on the LEFT. Daughter on the right , who I first thought was the mom.
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Permalink • Friday - April 03, 2009
A different kind of eye candy
If not for the mail I get from Peiper’s Place, what I call Letters From Littleton, I would never have known about this. But he sent me the clippings, and the Royal Mail actually didn’t deliver the envelope back to him for once, so I’ll pass them on. Kewl!
Most people think of skyscrapers as inventions of the post-industrial world, characteristic of tightly-packed urban environments. Density in cities is, of course, nothing new. Surprisingly, neither is the art of constructing tall buildings, as evidenced by the city of Shibam.
Shibam, Yemen has been continuously occupied for over two millennia. This remote desert city boasts buildings of mud brick that reach up to fourteen stories in height, many dating back hundreds of years (and parts of which date back thousands).
Since becoming a World Heritage city over 20 years ago, the area has largely catered (for better or worse) to tourists. However, this has at least helped preserve both the buildings and aspects of the regional culture that might otherwise have been lost.
Shibam’s structures are built of load-bearing materials, as opposed to modern frame-and-cladding techniques (the building blocks of contemporary skyscrapers). As such, the bases of the buildings are up to four feet thick.
And I gather it’s pretty sturdy mud, unlike that poorly made mud from that city in Iran that got hit with the earthquake the other year. (That would be the city of Bam!, perhaps the worst named place on earth. Why not just challenge the Gods, why don’t ya?)
[news brief] October 28, 2008. Shibam, a UNESCO world heritage site with towering 16th century mud brick buildings, also known as the “the Manhattan of the desert”, has survived a devastating flooding that hit southeastern Yemen destroying hundreds of mud houses and leaving dozens of people dead or missing.
Shibam is certainly one of the most architecturally outstanding places in the world. This dense walled maze of five hundred mud-brick skyscrapers seems to grow right out of the Yemeni desert. Many of its buildings date back to the 1500s—the city is as impressive from a distance as it is inside the city walls.
Shibam was declared a Wold Heritage city in 1982. World Heritage status has transformed Shibam in many ways. 95 percent of the shops in town are geared to tourists. There’s one on every corner. Yemen is a country with little tourist infrastructure and one of the lowest tourist arrival rates in Asia. Shibam is a surprise, the only place in Yemen where I frequently ran across white faces other than mine.
Since I come from a World Heritage city that has seen its historic core slowly turn into a theme park, I am a bit wary of certain effects caused by tourism. However, I would say that tourism has been kind to Shibam. UNESCO investments not only led to the restoration of skyscrapers and the preservation of traditional building techniques, but improvements in sewage and fresh water systems, storm drains, electricity and telephone cables, etc.
More importantly, it seems that somebody understood that a well-restored skyscraper is meaningless without its inhabitants. The city still feels real, despite the number of tourist shops. Whereas Quebec City has seen most residential buildings in its historic core turn into hotels, B&B’s, and summer homes for wealthy Americans, Shibam is still inhabited by its residents. There are no hotels within the walled city, perhaps because of a ban instigated by urban planners with enough foresight to understand the effects of tourism.
Rising from the valley floor like a mirage, the 450-year-old mud brick towers of Shibam in Yemen are the world’s first skyscrapers – dubbed the Manhattan of the Desert.
The 500 tower houses, made from mud mixed with chaff and hay, have withstood 113F (45C) heat, floods and, last Sunday, an explosion caused by suspected Islamic militants that killed four South Korean tourists and their local guide.
Inside the walled fortress, a Unesco World Heritage Site, the streets are eerily quiet in spite of the 7,000 residents. Families pass silently from building to building high up along connecting corridors – built to protect early inhabitants from attacks by Bedouin nomads.
The mud walls of the tower houses – five to eight storeys and up to 130ft high – are thickest at the bottom for stability. By law, any rebuilding must follow the shape of the original structure.
The arched window frames are made from the leafless nabaq tree and some towers are whitewashed with lime to slow down erosion by heat and rain – the crumbled house to the left shows why this is needed. The city’s design serves as a giant air-conditioning unit, creating maximum shade. Each building is usually used by one family. Food and cattle are kept on the ground and first floors.
The second storey upwards is a living area, with kitchens and entrances to the corridors on the fourth floor.
So, pretty cool. Ancient mud skyscrapers, still occupied and kept up after centuries. Tough enough to withstand at least a bit of rain now and again. And the place stays naturally cool, even in the brutally hot desert of Yemen. Natural air conditioning from walls 4 feet thick, and your own spot of shade from the skyscraper next door. Of course, they haven’t yet invented windows, or screens, and possibly not running water, but some of the pictures out on the net show that at least some of the buildings have enough electricity to run a light bulb or two at night. This would be a great tourist attraction if it was a safe place to go to. [This other “tourist attraction” is probably not on the list of Things to see in Shibam”. Too bad for them!]
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Permalink • Monday - March 30, 2009
From Russia, With Love
Titled “To The Struggle Against Word Terrorism”, this 100 foot tall artwork stands at the end of the former military pier in Bayonne NJ. Also known as the “Teardrop Memorial” the heavily symbolic work is situated so that it is exactly in the middle of the sight line between the Statue of Liberty and the World Trade Center to the north.
The artwork was designed and fashioned by Russian sculptor ZURAB TSERETELI, and the piece was dedicated on September 11, 2006. More can be read about it at the dedication website, information about how it was built can be found here and in many other places too.
“To the Struggle Against World Terrorism” was conceived as the events of 9/11 unfolded and Russian artist Zurab Tsereteli walked the streets of Moscow. Struck by the outpouring of grief he observed, a memorial with an image of a tear formed in his mind. Shortly after the attacks, Tsereteli visited ground zero and looked to New Jersey’s waterfront for an appropriate site for a monument honoring victims of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks.
Bayonne was a fitting location; the city was an arrival point for many New York City evacuees on 9/11, a staging area for rescuers, and offered a direct view of the Statue of Liberty and the former World Trade Center towers.
A gift from Tsereteli and the Russian people, the memorial is made of steel sheathed in bronze. Standing 100 feet high, its center contains a jagged tear. In it hangs a 40-foot stainless steel teardrop, representing sadness and grief over the loss of life, but also hope for a future free from terror. Etched in granite on an 11-sided base are the names of the nearly 3,000 killed in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings and terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001
Oddly, in recent weeks the rumor has sprouted up that this memorial and it’s dedication were totally ignored by the media. Even Snopes.com felt the need to run a piece on that rumor. It is not true, although to be fair this has not received a huge amount of attention. Funny how the Russians could put an idea together, build it, find a place for it, import it, and erect it, while New York City still dithers about getting almost nothing done about theirs. To be frank, more press was given to the “issue” that the Russian sculptor used a slightly out of date list of victims, and thus the names of 40 people who don’t belong there are inscribed on the base.
France gave us the Statue of Liberty. Now Russia has given us “To the Struggle Against World Terrorism,” another XXL, in-a-class-of-its-own monument. If you have not seen it, that may be because you haven’t recently approached New York City by ship. For those coming in from the Atlantic, through the Narrows, the Russian gift now heaves into view well before Lady Liberty. That is intentional, according to Zurab Tsereteli, the Moscow-based sculptor who created the monument. “To the Struggle Against World Terrorism” stands at the end of a long, man-made peninsula in Bayonne, New Jersey, and it looks from a distance like a giant tea biscuit.
The walkway around the statue contains hundreds of inscribed pavers, some with personal messages from those still here to those who are gone forever.
Islam Delenda Est
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Permalink • Thursday - March 19, 2009
UNDERSEA VOLCANO BLOWS ITS TOP ….. VIDEO
This just appeared in Telegraph online ....
Nice footage ....
March 19, The Telegraph
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Permalink • Tuesday - March 10, 2009
EYE CANDY AS CARLA SPARKLES IN DIAMONDS.
I’m posting this as Eye Candy because the lady really does look great. Don’t much care for her politics but hey, I’m not married to her.
I’m happy to simply look and appreciate.
However, there is a complete and somewhat interesting article that goes with the photos.
If you care, hit the link > > CARLA SPARKLES, FRANCE ANGRY!
Carla sparkles in diamonds but Sarkozys’ lavish state visit to Mexico sparks outrage in recession-hit France.
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Permalink • Sunday - January 11, 2009
The Most Awesome Solar Eclipse You’ll Ever See
Bonus: Earth is in the picture. Can you find it?
This is pretty awesome wallpaper. My wife approves. She didn’t like my previous wallpaper of Sarah Michelle Gellar. I can’t imagine why? We both enjoyed Buffy the Vampire Slayer!
Back to Saturn. This picture has resulted in the discovery of several new rings around your an ... er… Saturn.
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Permalink • Thursday - January 08, 2009
Hiroshima and Nagasaki taken by a British serviceman a month after the atom bombs were dropped.
True we’ve all seen photos of the aftermath many times. Don’t recognize all of these but then again, it all looks so much the same after the bomb that one shot looks much like another.
Gee… all those civilians, murdered by Yankee imperialist monster killer war criminals. Bush did it!
“The damage in Hiroshima was very different in that while Nagasaki was spread along a valley, Hiroshima was situated on a flat, open plain”
HMS Speaker, an escort aircraft carrier, which was directed to Nagasaki for the purpose of transporting hundreds of British POWs to Okinawa
THERE ARE 12 MORE PHOTOS > HERE
“it’s frightening to think that the atom bombs of 1945 weighed several tons, but today bombs with the same destructive power could be reduced to such a small size that they could be carried in a back pack”
And you can bet it’s what the muzzies would love to achieve here in the west. Just wish we could turn their landscape into this before they do it to us.
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Permalink • Saturday - December 13, 2008
WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL, WINCHESTER, ENGLAND. video …
Going through some things I have stored and I thought you might enjoy a change of pace from the usual stuff I do here.
I am a rank beginner at video and putting stuff together, but learning.
The shot of original church foundation before the cathedral, was taken from cathedral website. Other shot from the rooftop was taken by my wife some 20 years ago. Peiper took the easy ones more recently. I have more. I think I should post stuff with some historical interest and old buildings. Need to do that before the Labour Party paves over the rest of this island.
Have your sound on. Or not as the mood takes ya.
WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL
A LOT OF HISTORY IN THIS PLACE.
This Cathedral Church, so named because it houses the throne (or ‘cathedra’) of the Bishop of Winchester, has its origins in the seventh century, when a Christian Church was first built on the site. CATHEDRAL HISTORICAL INFO
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Permalink • Thursday - November 13, 2008
You can’t fly on one wing
Or you can download it if you want right here. (right click, Save As)
I don’t want to give away the ending, so all my questions are under the fold:
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Permalink • Tuesday - November 11, 2008
Kim Jong-il: Where has he been spotted now?. MORE FUNNY STUFF. must be something in the air here.
This doesn’t require any comment from me. Have fun guys. Be interesting to see what Rancino and Drew do with this one.
There are 10 photos at the link below.
Kim Jong-il: Where has he been spotted now?
Claims that Kim Jong-il was “Photoshopped” into an official photo to hide the extent of the North Korean leader’s ill health have sparked a wave of spoofs on the web.
By Matthew Moore
Last Updated: 10:06AM GMT 11 Nov 2008
Previous
1 of 10 Images
Kim at a Barack Obama rally Photo: Akirax on Worth1000.comThe “Dear Leader” was pictured in a group shot with hundreds of soldiers in a photo released by the Korean Central News Agency last week, confounding reports that he had suffered a serious stroke.
But eagle-eyed observers noticed that Kim’s shadow did not fall in the same direction as the troops either side of him, raising suspicions that his image was inserted into the photo later on.
Since then internet wits have had fun pasting the dictator - who is very rarely photgraphed - into ever more unlikely scenarios.
Members of the Worth1000.com photo manipulation website and the Somethingawful.com message board have cropped Kim into famous movie scenes, album covers, and even a Barack Obama rally.
He has also been mocked-up coming out of a sex shop, attending a rally in San Francisco, and - most obscurely - as an eyewitness to the shooting of four student anti-war protesters by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in 1970.
There has been no definitive contemporary footage of Kim him since suggestions that he was ill began to surface in September.
He has also missed a number of key events, including the funeral of a senior leader and veteran revolutionary, and a military parade marking the 60th anniversary of the state’s founding.
His health has been the subject of intense speculation because he has not publicly nominated a successor to run the nuclear-armed nation.
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Not that very many people ever read this far down, but this blog was the creation of Allan Kelly and his friend Vilmar. Vilmar moved on to his own blog some time ago, and Allan ran this place alone until his sudden and unexpected death partway through 2006. We all miss him. A lot. Even though he is gone this site will always still be more than a little bit his. We who are left to carry on the BMEWS tradition owe him a great debt of gratitude, and we hope to be able to pay that back by following his last advice to us all:
It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.
- Keep a firm grasp of Right and Wrong
- Stay involved with government on every level and don't let those bastards get away with a thing
- Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
- Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere
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Oh, and here's some kind of visitor flag counter thingy. Hey, all the cool blogs have one, so I should too. The Visitors Online thingy up at the top doesn't count anything, but it looks neat. It had better, since I paid actual money for it.
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