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By: Chapati Mystery » Empire Week V: Black Legends

Chapati Mystery » Empire Week V: Black Legends — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:20:21 +0000

[...] substance and significance of recent research on late colonial Kenya in a recent review (previously noted around these [...]

By: austin texas persona

austin texas persona — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:15:03 +0000

what a beautiful poem.

By: wanderer

wanderer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

happy may day! faiz was the first asian to receive the lenin peace prize in 1963. i bought a book of his short stories in delhi. very nice.

By: rob

rob — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Tyrants, lamps = wonderful, comrade.

Rob’s election summary:
Labour: ya, Tories: boo, Liberals: shucks; Respect: oi! Labour will lose a fair few seats to the Blue Bastards but keep a hefty majority, Bow & Bethnal Green will likely go to Respect, and the Liberals will make the usual 10-20 seat gain–not all because of antiwar. It all depends on turnout, as ever, and possibly that telling symptom alone is a justification for my/your lack of interest.

If I’m completely wrong I’ll make a model of myself out of chapatis next to the words “he’s not a prophet he’s a twit” and email the photo to you.

By: f.nadia

f.nadia — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

happy may day!

In Oregon, my native place, May Day was all about flowers. In elementary school, we would decorate our empty tiny milk cartons from lunch into (ridiculous, stale-milkish) ‘baskets’. We filled the baskets with flowers and were instructed to take the ‘bouquet’ to our neighbor’s house, put it on their doorstep, ring the bell, and run away. This was the very best way to celebrate spring, our teachers said. Did anyone else do this?

Our May Day ‘baskets’ seems to be loosely related to german and english maypole-dancing traditions (which were also a pretty big deal in oregon in the 70s. I’m sure everyone was very high, but it was fun at age 8!) and the general european pre-Christian spring-celebrations of May Day.

I’m realizing that in all those years of stealthy flower delivery, nobody mentioned the Labor history of this important day.

By: Ms. World

Ms. World — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

May Day isn’t celebrated in Japan. However, the land of the rising sun has its own bevy of national holidays in early May (thank God!). I read the link regarding the obscurity of Pakistan. No comment! I guess it is easy to get a book contract when you marry well in Hollywood.

By: rob

rob — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m guessing there’s an transatlantic delay, so you might not know that Ferguson has a fairly desperate letter response to Mr. Porter in the latest LRB (19/5 – or maybe you’ve already got it internet-style, I have no idea how their website is) along the lines of “But I footnoted you Bernie!” The intellectual part of his argument is infinitely complex and nuanced, but might be (with great daring) simplified as:

“Yeah, we were naughty, but empire’s the best, admit it.”

I reckon he’s got a macro to type letters like this…