Melons and quinces
Month: September 2004
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From Pete the Feet.
NYC is dispossessing newsstand owners in order to make the streets more monotone and generate ad revenues: Mary Whalen, whose family has owned a newsstand at the corner of William and Wall streets downtown since 1922, said her stand is “an institution” — not just a structure. “We’re part of what makes New York New…
According to a book by ex-spook F Hoekstra, the Dutch Secret Service (BVD) set up a Maoist party, the Marxist-Leninist Party Netherlands (MLPN), to figure out the extent and nature of Chinese influence among students and scientists in the 70s. Operation Mongol was so successful that Holland’s genuine Maoist parties didn’t get any of the…
There’s a good post over at Confrontación about the current Telefónica hard sell, which involves pestering hapless consumers with something worse than they’ve already got. Someone I know down south just had to wait four months for a line to be put in, and no, I really don’t want to hear your own Telefónica story.…
Check over at John Pawlenko’s (scroll down) for photos of the goons trailing the elderly man who says–convincingly–that Chupa Chups owe him a couple of hundred grand and who Chupa Chups have managed–unconvincingly–to haul into court on charges related, it seems, to assaults on people 20-30 years younger than him.
One of the stupidest pieces of evidence cited in anonymous briefings by the regional police in their attempts–based as far as I am aware purely on inter-corps rivalries–to pin Islamic terrorism charges on the 10 Pakistanis detained here on the 15th is that the gentlemen in question used Western Union to send and receive money.…
John Pawlenko’s excellent Chupa Chups exposé is turning into the longest post in the world (scroll to 27th Sept), but you need to read it for one simple reason: Catalonia appears to share with Burma and parts of rural China the distinction of having a judicial system which collaborates with the influential to the extent…
Someone told me this morning that the Royal Ulster Constabulary used to be known as the Trevors. It’s unclear to me whether this is a reference to the low incidence of the name in Catholic families, to Tacitus’ pigheaded Treviri, or to something completely different–please tell me if you know. Here, anyway, to strike terror…
Reading (and trying to sing) bits of Jack Kerouac’s Mexico City Blues over lunch, I came across the following in the 118th chorus: It’s all the same to meThe radio I dont wanta hearAnd cant have to hearPlays one thing and anotherOf great Sarah Vag A musician once told me that, during one of Ms…
MG Cole writes from a farmstead on Bala Lake: I am disappointed that you, a Welshman, don’t publish more stories of interest to dope-crazed New Age pillocks and consumer goods purchasers like myself. Here then is an authentic photo of Hungarian stag-princess, Violant, on her way from the Lands of the Morning to her wedding…
Great tunes, great doggerel, small simians