Claudia Roden:

(...)I had been involved in Marks and Spencer's Italian and Middle Eastern ranges as a consultant. Some years ago they had asked me to taste some of the new foods sent in by producers and to advise them on improvements. They were trying Moroccan chicken with lemon and olives, a tagine with prunes and a couscous meal. There were also filo cigars and triangles with minced meat and various dips such as hummus and baba ghanoush. They wanted to improve the flavours and they wanted them to be authentic. There were two versions of taramasalata. Someone from the producers - Cypressa - was there. I said neither tasted like the real thing and I had heard that people preferred the one at Waitrose. At which the Cypressa representative said they made it for Waitrose and Sainsburys too.

When he left, the Marks and Spencer staff said they had visited the Cypressa factory and all the staff there were Bangladeshi women. These women were all fetched from their homes by coach and brought back to their homes the same way because their husbands did not want them walking about in the street. Recently, I got a packet of vine leaves from Cypressa. Since the management is Cypriot, I expected the recipe at the back for stuffed vine leaves to be Cypriot. It was out of my book.(...)

The Apartment (1960)

International Politics

"Bon courage," Mr Sarkozy was heard saying off camera before leaving the set.

To oti o Sarkozy diekopse ti synentefxi pou edine sto programma tou CBS, 60 minutes, epexigitai shetika efkola. Ex oson fenete itan idi prokatelimenos enantion tou programmatos, katigoriopiwntas to stis 'vlakwdeis synentefxeis' pou exanagkazete na dwsei, 'vlakwdeis synentefxeis' pou tou spataloun ton ofelimo ergasiako tou hrono. I erwtisi peri Cecilia itan apla i epivevaiwsi -gia ekeinon- oti mia tetoia synentefxi den mporei na tou prosferi tipota to epikoinwniaka ousiastiko, eidika meta apo tin toso demosia -gia alli mia fora- proothisi tis idiwtikis tou zwis. Poios gallos vlepei CBS? Poios tha mporesei na ton lypithei - gia alli mia fora - gia to poso ashima tou ferete i moira, ma kai na ton thavmasei gia to pws epiviwnei twn htypimatwn, gai to pws anelisete, gia to poso diaferei apo tin mystikopatheia -tin diploproswpia gia merikous - twn prokatohwn tou? I epanademosiopoisi tou thematos 'Cecilia' thewrithike ara isws anef ousias ektos twn gallikwn meswn enimerwsis. I diethnopoiisi tou de, eidikotera mesa apo ena amerikaniko dihtyo, tha mporouse na stigamtisei ton Sarkozy, ton evrwpaio Gallo, gia panta, ws 'Amerikanaki'. Jogging, baseball cap, demosia dramata, thavmasos gia ton Swarzenegger - what else? Kratise etsi ta proshimata se mia prospatheia na epanadynamwsei ton thesmo tou President de la Republic, pou o idios thelise na diaforopoiisei, kai apo topo kai stoho koryfwsis - kai ara platforma diaheirisis- na ton epanatopothetisei ws thesmo arches.

To ti paramenei ws aporia - kai i aporia den xehniete - einai i epilogi tis frasis apoheretismou tou synergiou, i frasi pou teliwtika diakoptei tin katagrafi 60 leptwn apo tin zwi tou Nikola Sarkozy apo to CBS. Bon Courage. Enas gallikos idiwmatismos pou snithws simainei 'Min ta paratas', 'Kali dynami'. 'Bon courage' einai omws kai i frasi pou hrisimopoiun osoi theloun na efhithoun stous ithopious kai tous syntelestes mia parastasis 'kali epityhia', 'kali tyhi' me shetiki evgenia ma paramenwntas entos twn systimatwn efhologias tou theatrokosmou. I 'kali tyhi' - 'bonne chance', 'good luck' - thewreite allwste oti heirotero mporei na efhithei kaneis se ena ithopoio prin tin parastasi. I alli epilogi pou yparhei sta gallika einai i lexi 'Merde'. Dialdi 'Skata'. To merde / skata ehei perasei kai sto elliniko theatriko efhologio ma i thetriki tou dianomi den stamata apla stis exagwges. O Alfred Jarry xekina to pio diasimo tou ergo - to Ubu Roi - me ena anarthro Merdre: efhi, koroidia kai akyrwsi taftohronos. [Parenthesi: I lexi-frasi Merde ara den einai aplos enas en vrasmo psychis anistoritos anastenagmos, i ena mougkrito lytrwsis. Einai mia theatrinistiki eisodo sto skatologiko, sto ypervoliko. Se ena hwro omoio me ekeino tou theatrou opou i symvatiki koinwniki pragmatikotita anaireite, opou oti ypirhe mehri twra den mporei na yfistate poia ws tetoio.] Sta agglika to provlima pou prokyptei gia semnotyfous i atoma pou epiavalete na kratithoun, demosia, ektos tis skatologias sto theatro einai i frasi 'Break a leg' - exisou parallogi frasi ma entelws xeni stin skatologia tis theatrikis ypervolis, mallon prokeite gia anapodo xorki pou ehie na kanei me tin leitourgiki ep-ityhia, me tis provarismeni apeikonisi. Ex oswn gnwrizw sta gallika i moni enalaktiki lysi einai frasi pou hrisimopoiise o Sarkozy. 'Bon Courage' to loipon, opws Merde. Alla 'Merde' opws 'Break a Leg' i opws 'Shit'? Skata!

Ti eipe o Sarkozy? Exitimasen to synergeio jai kat epektasin to CBS ktl? I o Sarkozy ektalaven oti me to pou o idios epevale tin diakopi - anti ton heirismo- tis synetefxis ekame isws to megalytero epikoinwniako lathos tou ws twra kai malista se diethnes epipedo kai diamesw tis diamesolavisis enos metafrasti, jai se mia prospatheia na dikaiologisei ton eafto tou ston eafto tou kai na ton entharynei, monos pia, taftohrona me mia eklampsi aftokritikis, exitimasen ton Nikolas Sarkozy?

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I e-doni tou keimenou

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...symplwrites...

" Όρτσα, παιδιά, και πρίμο φύσηξε του Χάρου το αεράκι "

Nikos Kazantzakis - 18/2/1883 - 26/10/1957

...and how alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying...

Anti-Orgasmic Climax

A VIDEO OF SERIOUS AND VERY DISTURBING ANIMAL ABUSE IS TO BE FOUND AT THE END OF THIS POST.
NO NEED TO WATCH THE VIDEO ANYWAY.
It shows someone throwing hot oil on a dog. Apparently this was filmed 2 months ago and it found its way through the web to publicity only this week or so. The abuser is named as a certain Cypriot student of the Chios University - others say he has also served in the cypriot commando army unit (ΛΟΚ)- who has since then fled to the UK.
The first link of this post is a comment quoted from the youtube page hosting the video and thus it too conects with the above mentioned animal abuse video.


I have nothing to say. Only to show. Walter Benjamin

Obiously, this monster Panagiotis Kyriakou has hurt animals before, from his childhood. Why didn't his family or others in Larnaka intervene? Were they afraid he'd hurt them too, or is this what all Greek-Cypriots do for fun?


Εξολόθρευσαν 44 φαλκόνια
Έγκλημα στο Φασούρι

Δεν τους εμπόδισε η συνείδησή τους, ούτε τους αποθάρρυναν τα μέτρα που λαμβάνουν από κοινού το Ταμείο Θήρας κι οι Βρετανικές Βάσεις Ακρωτηρίου για περιορισμό της λαθροθηρίας στην ευαίσθητη περιοχή του Φασουρίου. Τις πρωινές ώρες χθες, όπως υπολογίζεται, λαθροκυνηγοί "έβαλαν" κατά κοπαδιού σαϊνιών, καταφέρνοντας να θανατώσουν συνολικά 44. Οι ασυνείδητοι εγκατέλειψαν το ...θήραμά τους στην περιοχή του αγροκτήματος, αφού το είδος αυτό των πουλιών, δεν τρώγεται. Διερχόμενοι κάτοικοι της περιοχής που αντίκρισαν το αποκρουστικό θέαμα των νεκρών σαϊνιών, αλλά και κάποιων ζωντανών, που είχαν λαβωθεί από τα σφαιρίδια, κάλεσαν την Υπηρεσία Θήρας για αυτοψία στη σκηνή, αλλά και παραλαβή των τραυματισμένων πουλιών. Επτά τραυματισμένα μεταφέρθηκαν σε ειδικό κέντρο περίθαλψης στη Λευκωσία, για να τους προσφερθεί η βοήθεια που πιθανόν θα τα κρατήσει στη ζωή. Ο υπεύθυνος της Υπηρεσίας Θήρας στη Λεμεσό κ. Μηνάς Σταυρινίδης χαρακτήρισε εγκληματική την ενέργεια των επιτηδείων, που ούτε το ελαφρυντικό της ονομασίας "λαθροκυνηγοί" δεν θα μπορούσε να τους αποδοθεί. Τα ονομαζόμενα φαλκόνια (κοκκινοπόδαροι), ένα είδος μικρόσωμου γερακιού, είναι μεταναστευτικά πουλιά και προστατευόμενα από τη σχετική νομοθεσία στον τόπο μας. Προστατευόμενη κι απαγορευμένη περιοχή κυνηγίου είναι κι η ευρύτερη της Αλυκής και των υγροβιότοπων του Ακρωτηρίου, που δυστυχώς "προσελκύει" μεγάλο αριθμό λαθροκυνηγών από τις αρχές του Σεπτέμβρη. Η περιγραφόμενη κατάσταση επέβαλε τις συχνές περιπολίες του Ταμείου Θήρας σε συνεργασία με την Αστυνομία των Βάσεων.
Την αναίσχυντη κι εγκληματική πράξη της εξολόθρευσης δεκάδων σπάνιων φαλκονιών στο Φασούρι, καταδικάζει κι ο εκπρόσωπος της Ομοσπονδίας Περιβαλλοντικών και Οικολογικών Οργανώσεων Κύπρου κ. Παντελής Μεταξάς, καλώντας τις αρμόδιες υπηρεσίες να εντείνουν τα μέτρα πρόληψης και προστασίας της σπάνιας πανίδας του τόπου μας. Ζητά ταυτόχρονα να καταβληθούν προσπάθειες να εντοπιστούν και να τιμωρηθούν παραδειγματικά οι ένοχοι, κι η τιμωρία να λειτουργεί αποτρεπτικά για πιθανές νέες κακόβουλες κι αυθαίρετες ενέργειες.

ΓΙΑΝΝΗΣ ΚΩΣΤΑΚΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ
Κωδικός άρθρου: 745234
ΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ - 06/10/2007, Σελίδα: 24


"Υπολογίζουμε ότι γεννιούνται περισσότερο από ένα εκατομμύριο σκύλοι κάθε χρόνο. Οι πλείστοι από αυτούς εγκαταλείπονται με όλα τα οδυνηρά επακόλουθα για τους ίδιους τους σκύλους, αλλά και για τη δημόσια υγεία και ασφάλεια, την κτηνοτροφία, τον τουρισμό και γενικότερα την οικονομία. Εντελώς ανεξέλεγκτη είναι και η αναπαραγωγή γάτων με περίπου τα ίδια ποσοστά γεννήσεων. Σε σύγκριση με τον ανθρώπινο πληθυσμό και την έκταση της Κύπρου, οι αριθμοί αυτοί είναι εξαιρετικά μεγάλοι, γεγονός που φανερώνει την έλλειψη ευθύνης, προβληματισμού και προγραμματισμού τόσο από πλευράς του λαού μας, όσο και από πλευράς των αρμοδίων υπηρεσιών του κράτους. Η κατάσταση είναι δραματική και πλήττει ανεπανόρθωτα τον πολιτισμό και την αξιοπρέπεια του κυπριακού λαού, ενώ η Κυβέρνηση είναι εκτεθειμένη έναντι του Συμβουλίου της Ευρώπης, επειδή δεν σεβάστηκε ακόμη τη δέσμευσή της"

15.05.07, 16:16 pm
Στην Κύπρο ξεκινάει μια προσπάθεια ελέγχου του πληθυσμού των γατών. Σε 20 περίπου περιοχές του νησιού θα τοποθετηθούν παγίδες για γάτες. Οι γάτες, όπως δηλώνει ο επικεφαλής του τμήματος υγείας Φίλιππος Πέτσας στο Reuters, θα επιστρέψουν στις περιοχές αυτές αφού πρώτα στειρωθούν.

Το 2004 Γάλλοι αρχαιολόγοι δήλωσαν πως σε έναν τάφο στην Κύπρο βρέθηκαν τα αρχαιότερα στοιχεία που δηλώνουν τη συμβίωση ανθρώπων με γάτες πριν από 9500 χρόνια. Μέχρι τότε όλοι θεωρούσαν τους αρχαίους Αιγύπτιους ως τον πρώτο πολιτισμό που εξημέρωσε τις γάτες.

Στα σημερινά χρόνια οι Κύπριοι δε θεωρούνται ιδιαίτερα φιλικοί με τις γάτες, ελάχιστοι έχουν γάτες στα σπίτια τους και αρκετοί τις δηλητηριάζουν σύμφωνα με δηλώσεις του Φίλιππου Πέτσα.

O tsioronis (Hraklhs Giorgallis) kai o tsalavouttis (Kostas Dimitriou) star se elliniko porno (no sound gamwto)

let us go

Pellokalamaraes

Tin idia wra pou stin kleisti stin kykloforia Makariou i demarchos Lefkwsias egainiaze (filanthropiko) motor-show:

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Post-Camping Gesture

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O.E. is going Saatchi

και η Μανιφέστα - όπως πάντα - ακολουθεί κατα πόδας
or how to penetrate into the art world with a T-shirt

Anti-Elan

Animporos, oinovaris, se poia nera na gyrw? T' apestalmena sou, kathisizisi tis kyriakis, apo pou na ta antikrysw? To provlima tis kat' exohin arches. Se apognwsi to myalo den paizei pragmatikotita. Trefei tin fantasiwsi i dyslexia apo whiskey kai ena upbeat sto vathos. Monahika pezodromia kai potamia katheta. Avlades, kipoi, pervolia, ampelia. Koilialgia se imeres nekres kai kryo marmaro. Nyhterino aithales kai katakratisi. Almyra se xeno potiri. Gefsignwsia o erwtas. Ta klassika: sentonia, strwmata, hnoudia, salia, aimata. Lexika sto plai. Misi thea apo mpalkonia ahrista kai to idio tragoudi sto repeat. Ki edw?
Pli.

H mana tou Panayioti

Giannis Xanthoulis - H mana tou Panayioti

Etwn tziai to Niko

Nikos Eggonopoulos: 100 xronia apo ti gennisi tou

9th in 5

Housewarming Gift of Choice.

Early Kosiaris, Late Xatzistefanou

One and only

R.I.P. Peraios 3

Molis ematha oti simera ekatedafisan ex oloklirou to spiti tis Peraios 3 (Charilaos Dikaios*, 1947). Penthos. Jai akoma perimenw tin dimarho na mou apantisei gia tin politiki tis oso afora tin arhitektoniki klironomia tis Lefkwsias - symfwna panta me tis programatikes tis dilwseis.
A'sihtir pion!
Jai skata stous agorastes twn diamerismatwn pou en na ktisei o Tsentas. Me to miso sas ekatomyrio ilithioi egorazete ena monternistiko aristourgima me pervoli - to spiti epien 300 000 lires katakriveia. Twra piaste gypsosanida jai open-plan tsikna. Ws jame ftanei o nous sas omws.





*Tin idia stigmi o eggonos tou Dikaiou eshei ekthesi sti Lefkwsia me thematiko pyrina ton opportunismo pou prosferei i lagneia tis erimopoiisis Palias Lefkwsias. Pinakes gia to saloni sas anyone? Stin thesi tis apousis viwmenis pragmatikotitas, i afirimeni, ektos hronou, anaparastasi. The society of the spectacle, belated.

Αγέλαστος Πέτρα

Αγέλαστος Πέτρα
Επιτέλους μετά επταετίας, ίσως η πιο σημαντική κατάκτηση`από την επεκτατική πολιτική που ακολουθεί η βιντεοθήκη μου.
And since I know that this film has been to many ombiouxous one of those pre-ombion references and mad lovers, further arrangements can be made for inter-ombion-distribution

Ed's Shed

Unbeknown

I fetini ousiwdis anatasi, ena fili pou den tha mporesei na einai. I echo twn hronwn xana sto perimene. Ta kiglidwmta: mia ellipis daktylografia stin poli to vrady. Kryfes metaphorikes ouranwseis. Pisw portes kai kerameika stous toihous. Psila to vlemma. To humour ws ekplixi kai i ekplixi tou humour ws prwsopiki ypothesi. Pafsi. Thymase? Oi dromoi pou den kaname mazi, me tin dyskolia twn lexewn pou den tha arthwthoun pia, ta heria sto apogevma tis Defteras kai mia agalia seimiwn. To potami pou allazei mprosta sou kai mono - mia laspi pallomeni, thirio. Sto fws anakaleite to metaihmio etouto. Ki as ehei harahthei sto dexi mou maniki, ki as ehei haraxei tin poli me to vlemma sou. To dakry pou den elege na fygei ap' to tsinoro, laiko tragoudi. Ki as thelw na dw haramata mazi sou, sta vouna t' Afami, me fthinwpora, xylina astika patwmata stin thermi enos lindy-hop kai limnes tou heimwna apo verantes potismenes me milti. Emmenw stin exomologisi enos Avgoustou. Mehri ekei omws.
Kai mian elpida.



Kardia Gennithikes Poulaki - Aki Panou

Just missed [Christo & Jeanne-Claude]

In Search of Mike Nelson

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Benjangelus Novus

My wing is poised to beat
but I would gladly return home
were I to stay to the end of days
I would still be this forlorn
-- Gershom Scholem, “Greetings from Angelus" [tr. Richard Sieburth]

There is a painting by Klee called Angelus Novus. It shows an angel who seems about to move away from something he stares at. His eyes are wide, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how the angel of history must look. His face is turned toward the past. Where a chain of events appears before us, he sees on single catastrophe, which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it at his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise and has got caught in his wings; it is so strong that the angel can no longer close them. This storm drives him irresistibly into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows toward the sky. What we call progress is this storm.

Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History

De Beauvoir Town War

24 "14th October"s since 1983

Xwris mallia, me dontia sto apokorifwma tou flirt me tin varitita, kai me drastiriotites 50ri ["oi re, en na paw Meneou na potisw tis lemonies"], telws pantwn xristo mou, na se paroume tziai sto party, afou theleis na se paroume,ti na kamoume.Ampa tziai en sou perna...mmm (psila to kefali, pisw oi omoi, mesa i koilia")
Happy Birthday Christo
[c'mon England]
Dwrwn Adwrwn

Not bad for a failure, not bad at all

Here
Note: On day 4 the First Capital Connect Bus. Don't tell me it made it's way to Cyprus by bus....

Foods That Will Win The War And How To Cook Them (1918)

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DJ essential

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Spectres Transpondered

Or Raison d'etre for New Division

(...)But punk never quite reached the suburbs here in the same way that it did in England, and so, many people (including my father) missed out on its lesson: that you didn't have to aim high to become extraordinary, that rudimentary was more than enough for transcendence to be possible. (...)



Ένα θα σου πω
Μπορεί να ήσουν η αφορμή
Μα η αιτία παραμένω εγώ
Εγώ

(...)

Ό,τι και να πεις
Στην άκρη του μυαλού σου θα ενεδρεύω
Tώρα πια θα δεις
Για χρόνια το μυαλό σου θα παιδεύω

Yield

All our scribbled lovedreams...

Hugh Selwyn Mauberly

Tipota den paei hameno sti hameni sou zwi

Happy Radiohead Day

in rain_bows

Again

It could very well be the 'black dog' Gulietta Guicciardi, or the prophecy I owed myself. My right cheek is turning back. Pauses, hiatus. What else can be said about all this seating down in the face of such disonance, as it is witnessed by all? Carpeted floors, minute, blind spaces. I exhale anally holding on to the privacy the tobacco offers. Then again here you are, misspelling the pain.
Using the same vocabulary over and over and over.

Three years ago

"
[...]
Ah, here we are. On what subject. The question "whose are the feet?" to which they wanted to bring round [faire revenir] the question "whose are the shoes?" assumes that the question "of what?" or "what are the feet?" has been resolved. Are they? Do they represent? Whom or what? With or without shoes? These shoes are more or less detached [in themselves, from each other and from the feet) and by that fact discharged: from a common task or function. Both because they are visibly detached and because - never forget the invisible ether of this trivial self-evidence - they are painted objects (out of work because they are in a work) and the subject of a picture. Nonfunctioning, defunct, they are detached, in this double sense, and again in another double sense, that of being untied and that of the detachment/secondment of an emissary: diplomatic representation, if you like, by metonymy of synecdoche. And what is said of the shoes can also be said, although the operation is more delicate around the ankle, of the neck or the feet
[...}
"
J. Derrida, The truth in painting, pg. 283

or
- + R (into the bargain)

Things you only learn in Camberwell, while someone is trying to give birth somewhere else

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ps. Thanks to Katina

A genuine contribution to internet otiose surfers

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Groucho Leanings?

Source: "Horse Feathers" (1932)

Kati Me Fai

Or What use is art for?

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Oi kalo!