Showing posts with label Guattaleuze. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guattaleuze. Show all posts

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Let's Save Belgium!





As I was telling you in a prior post, Belgium is about to implode. Which is very sad, as so many things are cool in Belgium, despite the horrors Charles Baudelaire published about it.
A country that produced Marcel Broodthaers and Chantal Akerman (Brookerman or Akerthaers???) in addition to moules frites (yes, those are Belgian, not French!), speculoos cookies, real beer, good chocolate and hardcore industrial electronic music (Front 242 anyone?) cannot be that wicked and deserves to remain a whole nation.
Alas, we at FBC! are powerless to help. Besides, we're French, meaning the Flemish would hate us as much as the Dutch hate the Flemish - they really do.
So instead of trying to marry off Arendstein and her meager dowry to totaly wacky Guattaleuze, we're going to ask you in our weekly poll to vote for what should be saved from Belgium. Godiva doesn't count as it is not really Belgian anymore.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page to save Belgium's national identity!

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Angelina Jolie Arendtstein!


Dear devoted readers,

4 of you responded to the Wittgenstein/Arendt poll, the answers being evenly divided between Arendtstein (easier to pronounce than Wittgenrendt I suppose) and Angelina Jolie, coming straight from a Belgian orphanage. (BTW, Belgium is about to implode. Read recent issues of The Economist and a bit of the Guardian to have an idea of the situation).
Congratulations for not opting for Karl Jaspers as it would have been chronologically impossible!

So I guess if Hannah (not HanHan, sorry for the typo) and Ludwig had a child, it would have to be Angelina Jolie Arendstein. She's going to meet Guattaleuze, the impossible offspring of Leibniz and Spinoza, and maybe, maybe something else entirely is going to get out of this meeting.

In the meantime I'm going to scratch my head for a new poll. Your suggestions are welcome.

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Guattaleuze!


No, this is not a new Belgian beer imported to sunny California, but the result of our poll. Remember, dear overeducated reader, we were trying to find a name for the mutant offspring of Leibniz and Spinoza. Spiniz never really got a chance, Leibnoza neither, but Guattaleuze won by a whopping 60% of the polled readers.
That makes 3 of you!
Well, I'm not sure about Guattari's interest in either Leibniz or Spinoza, but Deleuze did publish a book on Spinoza at the beginning of his career (full disclosure: I've read it and I don't remember any of it). He also published The Fold on Leibniz (and the Baroque), which I own and remember slightly better because of some footnotes on minimalism.

Anyway, it's time to start a new poll. I'm out of ideas, as it is late on Sunday evening and my cat is trying to catch the arrow on my laptop screen (she makes me feel so much like I'm a real writer! she tried to sleep on my keyboard earlier tonight).

So, just for fun, let's try to find a name for another monstrous coupling: Ludwig Wittgenstein and Hannah Arendt! (I couldn't do Derrida and Nelson Goodman, sorry, it's beyond my imagination).
In the meantime, I am STILL waiting for your Supernerd drawings and for the Art Celebrity Sightings. You guys never go out aside from openings???

And, as for the poll, I mistyped and poor Hannah Arendt became HanHan, but I apparently cannot edit the poll once someone has voted. Interesting, I cannot rig my own blog, pffff...