It’s a well known fact that property is not something people on the economic left have a lot of sympathy for. So it should not be too surprising to see that Oscar Lafontaine has appropriated Victor Hugo’s realisation that there are times when nothing is more powerful than an idea and put it on the poster in a way that looks lke it was his own… by the way, replying “we’re not mad” to his invitation (scribbled on the poster) was probably wrong – to some extent. While not as many people voted for the Linkspartei.PDS, it was still 8.7% (or 4,086,134 people) of Germans, 4.7% up from 4 years ago.
She never looked better.
Certainly not after the results were announced. Not even the little moustache someone painted above her upper lip seem to bother her. Stuff like that doesn’t bother people who have already discounted a clear-cut victory. However – losing bothers them. A lot. Return to this picture to see what I’m talking about when you’re watching the news these days.
They Could Not Get Enough…
votes to fulfil their most important campaign promis – turn the state’s campaign subsidies into a beer drinking orgy. Only 4220 people voted for the German Pogo Party, far too few to be entitled to state financing. But at least the guys put the pints down to put the posters up. I guess that’s democracy in action!
Too Much Red for a Brown Candidate
A cold shower before the photo shoot might have been helpful. Or Photoshop – edit, color balance. On the other hand, the worse the NPD’s posters look, the better.
Yes – to healthy food
This is one of the best campaign posters I have seen this year. The Greens definetely had the most creative advertisements, at least on the postters whithout candidates.
Britney at Songramp
A couple of days ago, I discovered a web community of singers and songwriters who comment on each others pieces. So I became a member and put some of the songs you can hear on tapsmusic online there as well. Including one that you cannot listen to here: “Britney“ – a quick song demo about a dream I had last week.
So if you’re interested in finding out what other people think of my song demos, you can check out my page at songramp.com
Update (2014): While the profile page still works, “Britney” is no longer available via Songramp.com, but you can listen to it right here!
King and Queen of… Sweden.
Finally a holiday experience that will impress my grandmother, who is, among many other things, fluent in all things concerning “European royalty.” Well, I suppose as fluent as reading women’s and celebrity magazines will get you in this respect.
So on my way back to Stockholm airport, I saw a tall guy with an earpiece standing in the middle of a road I had to cross. Then the royal carriage appeared and King and Queen of Sweden passed on their way to the annual opening of the Swedish Parliamentary session. Not sure, but it appears to be something like the “Queen’s Speech” in Britain.
Remembering what GWB’s visit to my home town had been like in February this year – remmeber, people who lived close to the place where he met with Chancellor Schroeder had to pass the entire day behind closed curtains not to risk being shot by US secret service snipers on the next building – I was mostly surprised about the relative lack of royal intrusion in people’s lives.
Where Bush had 3 motorways closed as well as airplanes diverted, King and Queen came, greeted and went to the Parliament with amazing royal understatement – despite the impressive amount of cavalry accompanying them.
Hej! from Stockholm.
Despite my still serverely limited mobility I made it to Stockholm for the first bi-annual afoe stakeholder meeting.
Too bad that only a couple of fistfuls came to Sweden this weekend, but it’s great to finally meet some of the people I’ve blogged with for two years now.
Too bad as well that I won’t see as much of Stockholm as I would like because of overly frequent foot-caused coffee breaks.
Too bad, too, that almost all of those coffee breaks are taking place in self-service coffee shops. Waiting is a apparently an activity limited to rel restaurants in Sweden…
Holding up.
Just to let you know, I’m firmly standing on the ground again – using both feet. For those who don’t know. I broke my left foot after attending a “Hooters” concert in June and had to spend most of the summer indoors, which wasn’t too pleasant. Tomorrow I’ll find out how much longer I need those “additional feet”…
News from the School.
Still laughing my head off. Got this from the Guardian’s backbencher newsletter – they did not yet feature it in the alumni newsletter ;).
Congratulations to Monica Lewinsky, who will begin an MSc in social psychology at the LSE next month. Regrettably, the option on Gender and Psychology, which includes a unit on workplace relations, is not available in the next academic year. LSE suggests “Rethinking the [Word Omitted] Body: Theories, Cultures and Practices” as a suitable alternative.