I stumbled upon this article via Boing Boing. Apparently, a bronze statue of Bruce Lee, famed martial arts actor, has been erected in Mostar, a city in Bosnia. Here’s a quote from the article:
“We will always be Muslims, Serbs or Croats,” said Veselin Gatalo of the youth group Urban Movement Mostar.
“But one thing we all have in common is Bruce Lee.”
Now, Bosnia’s past has been more than bumpy, and I understand their desire to have some sort of “symbol of the fight against ethnic divisions”. But come on, Bruce Lee? BRUCE LEE?
That’s like erecting a statue of Arnold Schwarzenegger in a park in Addis Abbaba as a “symbol against the struggle with Eritrea”.
Remember this? Or this? Or maybe this? This even?
Well, take a look at that:
Thanks to Catharina for the inspiration to produce yet another one of my ever so popular plant chronicles.
My parents came to visit my girlfriend and me last weekend. It was quite a short stay, but we still managed to see a few places, eat and drink practically all the time and generally have a good time. Since my camera has been surgically appended to my hand, I couldn’t help but shoot a few pictures. I then selected a bunch, put them in an album, and uploaded that. The results of my efforts can be viewed by clicking on that beat up vending machine:
I just stumbled upon Netvibes. It’s very similar to Google’s personalized homepage or myYahoo (you know, personalized news, email, search, etc.). I just quickly scanned what it has to offer, and from what I see, I think it would be the perfect solution for myself. You see, I really like the Google personalized homepage, mainly because it let’s me keep tabs on my GMail account and search using Google. But I also like myYahoo, because it lets me display my Flickr photos and is not as spartan as the Google thing. Enter Netvibes. They’ve got a clean interface, numerous modules or widgets or whatever new term these Web 2.0 people will come up with tomorrow, it supports GMail AND Flickr photos, and I can search using Google (and Yahoo, if I’d be so inclined) making it perfect for me. Now if only I would overcome that fear of entering my Gmail account details on a third party site.
On the 1st of December, Woody Allen will be celebrating his 70th birthday. He is undoubtedly among the smartest, most prolific filmmakers of the last forty years, and I was overjoyed when saw a teaser stating that the ORF, ad-supported but fee-collecting Austrian National TV, will be celebrating this event by showing two of his movies and a documentary about him.
Now, how do people usually celebrate? I, for example, like to celebrate my birthday by spending at least an hour or two of said day on unwrapping presents and shaking hands of well-wishers. Please note that I like to take that time out of my usual daily routine, because otherwise, well, it would be like any other day.
Using this celebrating template for the celebration of Woody Allen’s birthday, you’d expect them to simply show these three movies during the 1st of December. Since it’s a Thursday, and the ORF actually has two channels at their disposal, this shouldn’t pose too big a problem. They could for example chuck out the inane German romantic comedy they always show on Thursdays, and replace it with “Small Time Crooks”. Wouldn’t be too much of a sacrifice, right? Or what about rescheduling the nature documentary on the other channel? It’s an in-house produced thing, so they’re free to show it whenever they want.
Seriously, there’d be plenty of slots where it wouldn’t hurt anyone to replace the daily routine with all in all five hours of Woody Allen centrism. Each and every prime time slot on either of the two channels would be better and more appropriate than what they have actually chosen. Let me show you how the ORF honours the 70th birthday of the man who has won numerous Academy Awards and has been nominated for best original screenplay a whopping 13 times:
Sunday, 27th of November:
11 PM: “Woody Allen: A Life in Film” [DE]
12 AM: “Small Time Crooks”[DE]
Monday, 28th of November:
12:20 AM: “Sweet and Lowdown”[DE]
I mean, this is not their “Woody Allen has just died” emergency programming. No, they’ve had 70 years to think about how to celebrate that day, and that’s all they amounted to. That’s just pathetic.
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