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(Public) Nudity in Venice

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , on 7 January 2018 by delclem

 

“I love my hard Brexit”

55th Venice Biennale

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on 22 June 2013 by delclem

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Model houses of Austrian officer Peter Fritz at the main pavilion in the Giardini. It’s Biennale time again in the historical lagoon city. >full text & more photos
(c) wieninternational.at 2013 >alternative text (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2013

“Love thy kosher vampire”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on 29 September 2011 by delclem

A pretty interesting article (c) HAARETZ, 2011.

Not every bloodsucker in Western and non-Western folklore is necessarily a “vampire” though. And btw., the demagogic term “bloodsucker”, along with the idiotic “ritual murder” (blood libel) phantasma, has also been used by Christians to villainize Jews in general throughout history.

Photos (c) The so-called Estrie from Jewish mythology (above)
and a medieval vampire (?) skull from Venice (below) Continue reading