Category: politics

  • noble genealogy

    noble genealogy

    I was at my sisters place over christmas, and was reminded of my grandmother by this oilpainting of her (painted by Ragnhild Thrane in 1904). Her mother and father both had unusual family names, and for a laugh I thought I should see what I could find on that grand internet of ours.

  • crime and punishment

    crime and punishment

    My next-door neighbour is the guy responsible for the bomb in Oslo and the massacre at Utøya. It is a prison. But there is an ironic twist, that he is incarcerated at Ila Landsfengsel. During the occupation of the second world war it was only known as Grini, the first concentration camp in Norway. It…

  • words on walls

    Graffiti, street art, vandalism, drunken scribbles, guerrilla communication, culture jamming – call it whatever you want. Graffiti pieces focus on form, colour, technique; it is art, it is shape and message. The scribbles or stencilwork uses words and rarely seems to bother with the finer parts of typography or texture.

  • Northern Irelands silly ghosts. Attempted murder, hahaha!

    Northern Irelands silly ghosts. Attempted murder, hahaha!

    I admit I don’t really keep up with Northern Irish news much these days. It’s either desperately provincial – or just plain desperate. Yes, someone planted a bomb the other day, and yes, somebody got hurt. And I’m sure the obscure rural radio show is still going on without me. So. Some things never change.…

  • OXYmoronic, said the misanthropic humanitarian

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  • Beirut

    Beirut

    The sea – most of all the sea. Coming from Damascus, two things are sights for sore eyes: the sea, and green things. I drank in green; on corners, on waste ground, balconies, flowerpots. My friends had lived in, and not really left Damascus, for a month at this point and I can only imagine…