The Truth Revealed |
The observant among you may have noticed that while I occasionally post bulletins about Karatahta gigs, I have yet to post one regarding a Blairs' show. There is a simple explanation for this: The Bla...
Posted by The Blairs on Fri, 25 May 2007 04:29:00 PST |
Generals and Majors |
XTC were one of the great bands of the late 70s early 80s. The genius of the three album span of Drums and Wires, Black Sea, and English Settlement would make any musician envious. Go here to b...
Posted by The Blairs on Tue, 08 May 2007 04:16:00 PST |
The AKP song for English speakers |
This song, which really doesn't have an official name, is the first, and likely to be the only, song I write in (my rather simplistic) Turkish. While it was written and surfaced for a short while on t...
Posted by The Blairs on Tue, 15 May 2007 11:10:00 PST |
May 1st, 2007 |
Today was a bloody disaster. What a surprise. Everything is falling apart in this country, has been for way too long. The starting point of the recent decline I take to be the reaction to Orhan Pamuk'...
Posted by The Blairs on Tue, 01 May 2007 10:55:00 PST |
The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent |
"O Lord Most High, Creator of the Cosmos, Spinner of the Galaxies, Soul of Electromagnetic Waves, Inhaler and Exhaler of Inconceivable Volumes of Vacuum, Spitter of Fire and Rock, Trifler with Milleni...
Posted by The Blairs on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:01:00 PST |
Dance of Life |
Dance of LifeYou may live in constant fearMay you live in a state of peaceYou may live where money is the wheels greaseYou may love those you hold dearYou may have problems trying to copeYou may have ...
Posted by The Blairs on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:01:00 PST |
Taxi Driver |
Here is Istanbul we have C-NBCE, which shows English language programming with Turkish subtitles. Taxi Driver was on last night. While I've seen the film before, it has been a long time (at least 15 y...
Posted by The Blairs on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:25:00 PST |
On Writing Street Dogs |
On Writing Street Dogs
Street Dogs is my first long piece of fiction. However, working with words is my job. I write exams for a university English Prep program (by name, Advanced level, in pra...
Posted by The Blairs on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:49:00 PST |
THE STREET DOGS |
THE STREET DOGS
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
MARCH 8, 2054 ISTANBUL
After Istanbul died, five of us were left to continue to t...
Posted by The Blairs on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 10:51:00 PST |
Orwell for Beginners |
I found this in my messages today:
dude i wanna ask you something.. i just read the book 1984, i meant they want me to read it at the school.. but i just saw that there is an insulting to socialism, ...
Posted by The Blairs on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:04:00 PST |
