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MY FAVORITE SLUMS

28 February 2011, Cervera de los Montes

Acaba Mundo, Alagados, Alliodan, Alto dos Milagres, Amui Djor, Aglomerado da Serra, Ashiaman, Arab Ghoneim, Bab El Oued, Babilônia, Bardo, Beau Fraisier, Belford Roxo, Benjamin Constant, Bilibambili, Boavista, Boulaq, Brasília Teimosa, Buraco Quente, Cajueiro, Calemba, Cambamba, Cantagalo, Cazenga, Cibubur, Cidade de Deus, Cissin, City of the Dead, Ciudad Bolívar, Ciudad Satellite, Complexo da Maré, Complexo do Alemão, Comuna 13, Cubatão, Diar Echams, Distrito de Aguablanca, Divineia, El Alto, El Amrawi, El Madania, Ezbet el-Haggana, Fadama, Friburgo, Gbebouto, George Brook, Grota do Surucucu, Hadra El Gedida, Heliópolis, Iraque, Iztapalapa, Jacarezinho, Jamestown, Jardim Nakamura, Jardim Horizonte Azul, Jardim Papai Noel, Kaar Paala, Karail, Kawnia, Kojokrom, Kroo Bay, Ladeira dos Tabajaras, Lalbagh, Lenin Pally, Mabella, Mangueira, Manguinhos, Mohammadpur,Morro Azul, Morro da Babilônia, Morro de Santa Marta, Morro do Estado, Morro do Papagaio, Naga El Arab, Nangrin, Nasirabad, New Takoradi, Oued Koriche, Paraisópolis, Pavão-Pavãozinho, PK18, Plan Tres Mil, Radar , Rocha Pinto, Salgueiro, Samandin, Serrinha, Suame Magazine, Sumapaz, Susan's Bay, Tavares Bastos, Trapezista, Tuiuti, V8, Vidigal, Vietnã, Vigário Geral, Vila das, Belezas, Vila de Deus, Vila Paz, Vila Progresso, Wogodogo, Yagma, Zoé Bruno, Zongo.





Now Colonel Gaddafi, Then Colonel Sanders - Colonel Gaddafi

NOW COLONEL GADDAFI, THEN COLONEL SANDERS

23 February 2011, Cervera de los Montes

Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, better known as Colonel Gaddafi is a Libyan entrepreneur who founded the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. His image is omnipresent in the the brand’s advertising and packaging, and his name is sometimes used as a synonym for the Libyan oil or country itself.

During his early years, Gaddafi held many jobs, including steamboat pilot, insurance salesman, railroad fireman and farmer.

The Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball league has developed an urban legend of the Curse of the Colonel. A statue of Colonel Gaddafi was thrown into the river and lost during a 1985 fan celebration, and the curse has caused Japan's Hanshin Tigers to perform poorly since the incident.

At the moment, Coloner Gaddafi is in a great danger in Libya, where a popular uprising is demanding a new brand image. Nothing lasts forever. The next one to fall could be Colonel Sanders.





Soon You Will Boycott The Finnish Culture - Timo Soini

SOON YOU WILL BOYCOTT THE FINNISH CULTURE

21 February 2011, Cervera de los Montes

Nothing unites the Western European pseudo-intellectuals smoother than a common enemy. Previously, the evil empire was the United States skippered but George W. Bush but when the Nobel Obama raised to power, it was necessary to choose another super-monster.

The nouveau enemy is the cat, whose color doesn’t  matter, as long as it can catch mice - this Sichuan proverb was used by Deng Xiaoping to justify the economic reform in the People's Republic of China. Hundreds of millions of people were rescued from extreme poverty under the strict discipline of  the Communist Party.

It’s easy peasy to mock China because most of the highbrows haven’t been bothered to find out what the country and the culture are about. It’s pointless to try to understand the othernerss because the human rights are as universal as Ikea sofas.

The art critic Veikko Halmetoja wrote last week in the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat about Ai Weiwei saying that the current human rights situation (in the PRC) has gotten me a few times to remain silent, when I wanted to praise the Chinese architecture, handicrafts and art. It does not seem fair to advertise the country and a culture where freedom of expression is illusory.

I guess Halmetoja stayed silent during Bush’s reign if he happened to like the works of any American artist. Now Obama has promised to close Guantanamo and Halmetoja can be  in favor of American art. I suppose that Halmetoja doesn’t eat spaghetti, as long as Berlusconi is Italy’s Prime Minister. An ethical intellectual doesn’t sleep with any Thai prostitute until the political situation in Bangkok is clear.

It’s better to eat Swedish meatballs every single day to avoid supporting any person bearing a passport of a country with a government that doesn’t  respect human rights or does something else nasty.

I look forward to the electoral victory of the right wing populist True Finns in Finland this spring. It’s exciting to see whether the intellectuals will boycott Finland. Maybe they decide to express their opinion against the nationalist Finland by not speaking about my art. I just woder if this silence strategy works retroactively - whether to boycott only the culture produced during the True Finland, or also the builduings by Alvar Aalto and symphonies of Jean Sibelius?





Arab Street Hookers - Ava Arab

ARAB STREET HOOKERS

16 February 2011, Cervera de los Montes

During the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt everybody has been speaking about the Arab Street. I didn’t know where this street is but now I found out that it is a neighborhood in Singapore, famous for its flower shops. Then I landed on a website called Arab Street Hookers. It’s full of beautiful young girls, purportedly Arab though some are claimed to be Persian, showing their genitalia and involved in hardcore sexual acts with American men


The Arab Street Hookers are Aaba Bin Sheikh, Abia, Adara, Africa Sexxx, Agatha Abir, Angela Musharaf Ali, Anya, Ava Arab, Barbara, Bella, Brittney, Ciana, Cleopatra, Courtney Foxxx, Crissy Moon, Crystal, Daniela Celight, Danni, Delaiah, Dominique, Fatwan, Gina, Ginger Ali, Hala Cairo, Hanit Armijad, Helena, Jhazira, Johanna Rain, Jordan, Kafifa Khalid, Kaila, Karina Ferrari, Karine, Karola Habib, Kasmilah, Maya, Melrose Foxxx, Millian Blu, Persia, Pocahontas, Rafa Arafat, Sama, Sasha Sky, Shoree, Silvanna Ricci, Talisama, Tristan, Trixie Love, Valencia Rain, Valerie, Wahiba Wasi, Whitney, Yuba Khan, Yuhanna, Zaila and Zena.





The Guggenheim Theory - Finnish Soldier

THE GUGGENHEIM THEORY

11 February 2011, Cervera de los Montes

The Guggenheim Helsinki project should not remain just a discussion of the cultural scene because the main issue is Finland's security policy.

No two countries that both have a Guggenheim museum have ever fought a war against each other.  Italy and the United States were enemies in the World War II, but Peggy Guggenheim bought the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni in Venice in 1948, and the museum that bears her name opened public in 1951. Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, in turn, was inaugurated in the 90s.

The Guggenheim theory stipulates that when a country reaches a certain cultural level, when it has an educated middle class big enough to support a Guggenheim museum, it becomes a Guggenheim country, and people in Guggenheim countries don't like to fight wars - they like to see master pieces of Western art.

In the 1950's and 60's developing countries thought that having an aluminum factory and a U.N. seat was what made them real countries, but today many countries think they will have arrived only if they have their own Guggenheim museum.

If Finland will have its own Guggenheim, the nation can be confident that there will never be a war against the United States, Italy, Spain, Mexico, the United Arab Emirates, Lithuania or Germany. Internal conflicts, such as ETA's terrorism in Spain, might occur but also a Guggenheim museum can help to overcome these problems. In Spain, The Guggenheim was not set up in Madrid, but to the restless Basque country, where the museum has played a significant role in the fight to the fanatical nationalist communist ETA terrorists.







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