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Yeah, F the head, as eagerly proclaimed by Critical Bill in "Things to do in Denver when you're dead" that, no matter the "it's just another Tarantino wannabe" choir, I pretty much enjoyed.And no, I don't think it's "just another gangster movie" as well. Far from it.
Back to the Roses:
Oliver Rose: So I'm not going to die?The 48 hours deadline (ha ha very funny) is over. As in 1961, let the word go forth from this time and place to friends and foe alike, that I'm not dead, that I'm getting better and that the only reason why I'm not out for a walk is that my bottom is still a bit stiff.
Medic: Eventually, but not today.
But my head is fine, thank you.
The trumpet summoned me again, in the form of a reader, who, in a praiseworthy intent to raise my blood pressure, sent me the picture below that demonstrates the obdurate effort of the Paris suburbs' local emanation of the French Republic (i.e. the mayor's office) to give new meanings, not only to official anti-Americanism but also to the idea that democracy is nothing but the oppression by the most numerous - unless the instigators of this placard achieved the Saddamite score of a 100% majority at the poll.
My reader explains:
In Montreuil-sous-Bois, which borders the north-east side of Paris, the town hall finally took down this large banner on Thursday.Removed last Thursday only. I can imagine that this pale echo of the al-Rashid Hotel's mosaic was the source of so many repeated orgasms among the Montreuil-sous-Bois councilmen and women that removing it must have been a real heartbreak.
Anyway, this propagandist use of public finances is absolutely cloying, but then again, what can you expect from a Socialist-Communist-Green town council, directed by a Communist mayor who volunteered for an extended military draft - adequately called
How can one be in Prague between 1969 and 1971 (and be proud of it) and still want to have anything to do with Communism? Hello Montreuil? Do the names Jan Palach, Jan Zajic, Miroslav Malinka or Evzen Plocek mean anything to you?
Was Comrade Mayor too busy learning "Communist coup d'etat for dummies" with the Komintern and the Spetsnaz, as many of his fellow executives of the French Communist party did up to the 1970's, to notice desperate students burning themselves to death to protest the Soviet occupation, the riots that followed and their repression?
Or was it the capstone of Comrade Mayor's Komintern course?
From theory to practice comrade?
Back to the present, to Comrade Mayor's banner and my regret that, unlike the Al-Rashid doormat it wasn't removed by a team of Marines.
But hey, you never know. One day maybe.
Hopefully.
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