Il Buono, Il Bello, Il Cattivo
In homage to a great piece of cinema history, and a lovely breed of canines, I present to you the first official portrait of the mysterious Dux of Ginestra. Dux mea lux! Evviva!
***GOLDENBIRD***
It’s the Modern World, the End of Times, the Decline of the West, the Revolt of the Masses. It’s the 1920’s. It’s going to be Very Silly.
Archive for November, 2007
Apropos
… the previous post about “little evil pious men”… Here are a few of my favourite predators & symbols of Italy, the eagle, the wolf and the Falco.
Roligaste rubriken i SvD i dag
“Världen är full av små onda fromma män“
Det handlar om abort. Och jag tänker genast på stackars Falco som med all säkerhet har mycket starka åsikter i frågan. Men inte är han ond för det…
Hilja & Josephine
Here’s a nice illustration to the previous post about extremist receptions of Josephine Baker in Finland, from Kurikka no 6 1933.
Hilja: - Woman, if you don’t get out of here while you still can, you’ll taste this!
“True Finns”
Not completely unrelated to my upcoming thesis. One of my challenges is to debunk the old lazy idea that “there was no racism in Finland before those damn foreigners came here”. The Finnish idea of nationhood is very much built upon an impossible ideal of purity, as well as a sense of constant threat towards [...]
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