Mugabe
Now Zimbabwe urgently needs sorting out. See Eamonn’s editorial about Zimbabwe in Spotlight Online and find out about the dark humor that is keeping Zimbabwe going.
RIP George Carlin
Another one bites the dust. Comedian George Carlin (May 12, 1937- June 22, 2008) was a very funny guy who hated bigotry. The first host of Saturday Night Live, he said, “I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.” Noone understood better […]
Oops, did we forget one?
Speaking of camps…. the Onion, “America’s Finest News Source” ;-), does it again: “U.S. Finally Gets Around To Closing Last WWII Internment Camp. White House Press Secretary Debra Browning reminds reporters that there were 26 other camps that the U.S. successfully closed on time.”
WALL-E
700 years into the future, mankind has left Earth to live in outer space. But before leaving we built and left behind a robot to clean up after us. WALL-E stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter – Earthglass, as the advertisement by the (fictional) Buy-n-Large Corporation, the producer of the handy robot, explains. “So sit […]
Maurice Sendak turns 80
Maurice Sendak, writer and illustrator of immortal children’s books, turns 80 today. He finds that children’s experiences in particular—joy and discovery, fear and suffering—are among the purest and strongest ones there are. And children recognize that he is truly talking to them. For me, “Where the Wild Things Are” picked up where “Beauty and the […]
Goodbye Peter Rühmkorf
Peter Rühmkorf (25.10.1929-8.6.2008): Idealist, romantic, left-wing ironist. RIP, great poet. Surfing around the internet I’m stunned: Rühmkorf has not been translated into English?! OK, here goes nothing:
Animating girls
Two very different scenes – street theater and pixels – and yet somehow they are mirror worlds inhabited by the same kinds of dreams. We love puppets of all kinds, don’t we, especially those who seem to really come alive when we pull the strings. Who’s controlling whom? A little creepy (unheimlich) and wierd – […]
