i am as angry now as the angry arab, but not because Jumblat

#There is no person I know who has a complex vis-a-vis the White Man more than Walid Jumblat. He craves the company of the White Man. He never seems to be able to have his meal in his house without the company of some white man from somewhere, usually a white European diplomat or journalist. He rarely speaks to Arab journalists and does not seem to invite Arab diplomats to his house, but if a second assistant to the assistant to the deputy of ambassador of a European country asks to see him, the person would be having dinner with him on the same day. It really says something deep about him and about his proclivities. And note in his interviews with the Western press how he goes out of his way to show the White Man that he is civilized and sophisticated. He usually likes to show them (very patiently--for a restless and most impatient man) around his palace, and show them his collection of New York Review of Books (a sign of civilization in the shallow homeland) and Foreign Policy--in this silly little article. And...he drinks wine. For some reason, the White Man is always impressed when an Arab drinks alcohol, perhaps because it so goes against the misconception of the White Man. I mean I had people in my family who were alcoholics in the 1940s and 1950s in South Lebanon, and I if I were to show them around to the White Man, he/she would have declared me civilized on the spot.#

fretton - lisson gallery

legyen hat ujra szo epiteszetrol..multkor este meg elsetaltam, h megnezzem a Lisson Gallery-t.
ez az ajanlas tenyleg csak egy ajanlas, este volt mar, ezert nincsenek publikalhato fotok, es nem volt nyitva a galleria.
Az ajanlas viszont tenyleg egy ajanlas, mert a galleria amilyen szep a kepeken, annyira lenyugozo a valosagban. Az uvegmeretek masszivak es az egesz homlokzata eszmeletlenul nagyvonalu, nagyon szep!
erdekesseg, h a galleria az Edgware Rd-rol nyilik, volt egy kicsi tulvilagi hangulata ahogy az uvegek kicsit derengtek abban a sotet kulvarosi utcaban. Aztan meg jo volt, jo a haz baloldali szomszedja is...