Tuesday 30 June 2015
#grexit, #PRexit
The US cannot exactly boot out the recalcitrant and the under-performing and succession has been made an illegal-fiction—and while the fledgling EU has untried provisions to kick-out members or let them leave voluntarily, and perhaps more importantly, on balance with the insistence that this experiment will work, the ability to selectively invite new partners—which really isn’t a possibility for America—and the core of badly-behaving Europe achieve a new and hopefully better character in expanding its borders. Though many of the contiguous territory, in my opinion, are in far worse financial straits, the Colombian Union is baiting and beating up on one of its colonial outliers in insolvent Puerto Rico with mounting attention that may well match captivation that the Greek tragedy is providing. Receivership does not seem like an option that will do anyone any good, other than the lenders of last resort.
catagories: ๐ฌ๐ท, ๐บ๐ธ, ๐, ๐ฑ, ๐, labour, myth and monsters, networking and blogging
5x5
ephemera: MOMA acquires beautiful set of postcards advertising the inaugural Bauhaus exhibition
redrum: food decoration inspired by Stanley Kubrick classic The Shining, via the splendiferous Nag on the Lake
proud as a peacock: charming round up of railings against the US Supremes’ decision to ban state-level curbs on marriage
neapolitan: biography of Rose Totino, patroness, of frozen pizza—plus a selection of inventive advertisements made with stock-images
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐บ๐ธ, ๐ฌ, ๐ณ️๐, ๐ฆ, antiques, food and drink, labour
eyalets and encomia
Though now I know that the frigate on the obverse of the old drachma coin represents the vessel of the head of the Greek admiralty and freedom-fighter Constantine Kanaris, thinking on the possibly eminent return of the currency, the nature of nomos, numisma and the Union, the paradoxical Ship of Theseus—where one speculates if a boat is still the same boat if one has replaced a single nail, plank, sail, jib and mast, the entire deck and eventually though still called Theseus’ comprises none of the original composition.
Monday 29 June 2015
5x5
ostalgie: doll houses and dioramas of East Germany
throughput: Disney corporate flow-chart for strategic success
notorious rbg: US supreme court justice’s civil rights sojourn and superstar status
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐บ๐ธ, ๐ณ️๐, ๐, ๐, environment