marika wrote:
> Frank Kalder wrote:
>>>
_Politics US/EU_
>
>> Some more positive \kalderological\ comments at the German foremost
>> online magazines FAZ and Focus - http://...
>
> how neat.
>
>
>>> Craig's now my favorite
>>>
> he ended up in some movie i saw on cable the other day, it was prosaic
> revenge movie, criminal against criminal. It wasn't that good.
>
> Consequently, I wasn't expecting much, based on that performance,
>
> tho the movie could have been a few years old
>
> but apparently he's a great actor based on this Bond endowed with
> something more of a subtle emotional complexity and a very smoldering
> sexuality that I also didn't expect.
>
Wow!
>
>> Ah, good to know. Maybe I've got to pay more attention to him from
>> now onward.
>>
>>>>
_PIMPS & HOS [L.A.]_
>>
>>>
>>> Yes, but I don't know if it was this particular event or a similarly titled
>>> on elsewhere. It's a common theme. In fashion, fundraising, and so on.
>>>
>> Why is the pimp aspect pertinent to e.g. fundraising?
>> Is HOS an abbreviation for hostess or host, etc?
>
> O FUNNY.
>
> HOS is how you pronounce WHORES
>
> PIMPS and WHORES is pronounced PIMPS and HOS.
>
> A certain kind of archetypal look is associated with this phrase.
>
> I've heard of benefit shows where the attendees dress up in this
> archetypal look, and pay a very high sum ot attend the benefit dressed
> thusly.
>
Ah, thanks for explaining this funny complexity :)
> Maybe the following poem will help you figger out how Whores became
> Hos.
>
>
> "Mebbe it's them long years in the saddle
> Or the hosses I tried to break
> Or the ones who might near broke me
> That's makin' this ol' cowboy ache
>
> There's still a lotta satisfaction
> Comes from tightenin' that wire
> But it seems there's nothin' better
> These days than sittin' by that fire"--Bobbie Gallup, The Snow Seems
> Awful Early
>
>>
>> Occasionally, at browsing through the German SPIEGEL (similar to TIME),
>> I discovered a quite interesting book ["field studies..."] written
>> by Oksana Sabuschko in a vulgar and lyrical novel style (as they
>> connoted).
www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,457948,00.html>
> never heard of it before.
> Finally, a sane voice.
>
"Oksana Sabuschko, geb. 1960, lebt in Kiew. Sie studierte
Philosophie, war als Fulbright-Stipendiatin in Harvard und Pittsburgh
und als writer-in-residence an der Penn State University. Zur Zeit ist
sie Vize-Präsidentin des ukrainischen Pen-Zentrums, unterrichtet
kreatives Schreiben an der Universität Kiew und schreibt für
Zeitschriften zu literarischen Themen. Sabuschko publizierte seit Mitte
der 80er Jahre mehrere Lyrik-Bände, Erzählungen und
politisch-philosophische Studien sowie 1996 den vorliegenden Roman, der
noch vor dem Erscheinen als Raubdruck zirkulierte und den Namen der
Autorin berühmt machte."
http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/slawistik/inhalt/386.htm
She's apparently a renowned Ukrainian university lecturer and
novelist with an interesting US background.
> My grandfather and I used to debate all the time regarding Ukrainian
> literature. I told him Ukrainian literature would never enter the
> annals of the great as long as they kept writing about Cossacks. I
> said they had to write books of greater universal appeal -- sex love
> etc in more modern arenas.
>
You were a real visionary :)
> He initially disagreed, but the following day told me he agreed with me
> completely. Why would anyone every consider Ukrainian worth learning
> unless it had great literature, great technological journals or bawdy
> sex stuff.
>
> At last, they are learning.
>
Indeed! Let's celebrate OKSANA_!_
_Iran_
>
> Lots of talk on our news today about possible strikes on Iran to wipe
> out their nuclear weapons.
>
> Perhaps being in the thick of politics, I will become more interested
> in them
>
Yeah, that will be highly interesting and, moreover, sort of rewarding,
I'd guess.
>
_Changes in Western Policies_
> Here's a link to an interesting article on changes in Western policies
> by Bush administration, concerning the recently appointed Shannon
> assistant secretary of state
>
>
http://www.coha.org/2007/01/02/tom-shannon-inherits-the-wreckage-of-the-bureau-of.../
>
> Shannon's conciliatory rhetoric to the
> contrary suggests a deliberate good cop-bad cop approach to hemispheric
> issues, utilizing his Oxonian good cheer to mitigate the harshness of
> Bush's policies once they are being put to a test in a given Latin
> American country.
>
>>
> Oui, je comprends. ...
>>
> Oui, justement merveilleux :)
>
_New DC Start_
FIRST DAY ... - GOOD LUCK again!
>
Ciao, Frank
