spam art

Tom Coates has ‘shopped that top-10 spam meme, Unrelenting C*cks Destroy Innocent Pussies.

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És tot una mentida (menys l’emoció humana, evidentment)

Aquesta foto d’en Marc, fet per un tub de cartró, és una imitació de Le faux miroir (1935) d’en Magritte, que possiblement estava pensant en la Porte fenêtre a Collioure (1914) d’en Matisse. Altre bon exemplar d’aquesta època és la Venus B (1933) de Kazimierz Podsadecki, i peces modernes que m’agraden inclouen aquesta foto anònima…

the yettis of hell

Sorry, but anyone tell me whether the following William Dunbar quote refers to the long battle by Dorset priests to rid their churches of scrumpy ‘n’ western, to yet another destruction of Leicester City FC’s charity team, or to skirmishes between farmers and those legendary mint tea-crazed monsters? Done is a battell on the dragon…

religió comparativa

Algú pot explicar-me perquè només s’ensenya la religió catòlica aquí i aquí? On queden Star Trek i Homer?

on the job with a taliban recruiter

An interesting article by Massoud Ansari in The Asia Times highlights the role of Pakistani madrassas in ongoing recruitment: Says Haji Sardar Lashkari, a former provincial minister in Balochistan: “How is it possible for senior Taliban leaders and the likes of Mullah Dadullah and other most-wanted Taliban remnants to come to Pakistan quite often, convince…

Raamtekens

Dit soort teken kom je vaak in plattelandse kerken tegen ipv ramen. Ik moet altijd aan Twentse geveltekens en stiepeltekens denken, al heb ik volgens mij deze typische Catalaanse vorm nooit in Nedersaksen gezien. Zit er iets achter, of ben ik een samenzweringskundige aan het worden?

islamic televangelism

Le Monde Diplomatique contains a very interesting article (larded with the customary anti-democratic spin) on socio-religious change in Egypt. In it Patrick Haenni and Husam Tammam identify four common attributes of Cairo’s photogenic prophets of personal salvation: Almost all are the product of secular education and their religious knowledge is that of the dilettante; they…

Monja.com

Vaig veure i treballar un parell d’anys amb 150 monjes velles holandeses. Miraven Ajax en una pantalla gran i bevien cervesa. Aquestes són diferents: irlandeses, de Galway a l’oest d’Irlanda.