Entries Tagged 'DIVERSIONS' ↓

all that glisters is not

Your Iconophile was unsuccessful in his search for clues at the last known address of

Vote Gnome (or the Angel of Fluxus will be paying you a visit)

Be warned: if you vote for The Bishop and her Pet Monk the folks at Iconophilia can arrange for some gnomely revenge… (For example, this is by Milan Knizak: Andel, 1989, acrylic on plastic. P.S. if this makes no sense to you, there’s a thread).

gender and forgetfulness

(do not read on if you’re not in the mood for distraction) Fact: within the past 24 hours two teenage boys have either lost at school, or forgotten to take to school: a bag containing a pair of shorts, socks, shin guards, soccer boots, a camera, a phone, an iPod, a timetable, and wallet and that all it contains. If anyone has a solution, please advise…

a jar of whose hair?

Trust me… go to anonymous works – one of my favourite sites

ecclesiastical scatological scopophilical

Puzzled by the necessity to post warnings against rampant ecclesiastics by the good burghers of Freiburg, I was directed to look again at das Freiburger Munster

Good grief! What were they thinking? (What were they doing?) But don’t be deterred from risking a visit to see for yourself. It is indeed a miracle the Munster survived… If you missed it, see my previous panoramic view in which I remind you that the Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt once said that the church’s 116-meter tower “will forever remain the most beautiful spire on earth”.

Times Online’s 40 bloggers who count

for those who can’t get enough

Nicolas Rothwell, Primitivist

shines light on darkness.  Read the Roth’s latest, see the images by Vanessa Hunter. What is to be done? Blame the Welfare State, apparently… Follow the thread here

but money can’t buy you love

“German art collector Julia Stoschek poses in the video installation ‘Destroy she said’ by Monica Bonvicini in her exhibition at Deichtorhallen art hall in Hamburg, Germany.” See this “this very young private collection” at ArtDaily.com

women cause earthquakes – in Iran

according to the acting leader of Tehran’s Friday prayers Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi


dead heart Tony

First watch the John Clarke, Bryan Dawe segment on the ABC 7.30 Report last night – and then compare with what Tony Abbott has to say for himself on The Punch… The accompanying pic shows just how engaged he was… And remote? never too far from the ubiquitous milk crate. Or see this grotesquerie on The Age. The thread continues here and here.