15th of June - LE MANS!

Nothing's happening anywhere, see. The London Times has become utterly unreadable, the BBC unwatchable, and every single 'high end/up-scale' journal in the world has gone to hell.

Every single one.

Hollywood movies are completely bereft of creativity. 

The whole thing's gone a bit, a bit... ...a bit queer, frankly.

Is there anyone here, by the way, who thinks that Charlene is an actual biological female...

You know, Charlene, from Benoni, where the crime rate is so high, apparently, that the family (of Charlene) considered moving to Monaco.

This is a hybrid tea rose. Anyone know its name?

Anyway, she got a certificate in 2014 affirming her Irish ancestry. If that's any help. Originally, recently originally that is, they were from Rhodesia which no longer exists since it became Zimbabwe. Did you know she's related to Barrack Obama? Oh yes, basically through the ink cartridge from the same back alley lawyer's office.

This is all a bit like the Apocalypse of Abraham, isn't it. The book written around the exact time of Jesus of Nazareth, whose major problem as far as scholars is concerned is that it is quite poorly written, and contains a fairy-tale about the ancestry of Abraham and a myth about Abraham smashing some idol statuettes his father made, and some talking crows and sundry other stuff.

Sometimes, it is a touch difficult to see into the past and completely grasp laboratory facts from out of there!

I mean just how do you prove Jesus ever was born or existed at all? Pretty much same as how you would prove that Charlene is a real girl. ...You know, what with all the scandal and 'stories' about whatsisname having an illegitimate kid born at the same time as Charlene's planned wedding.

Sponsored car of 'Second Skin' the medical support
and compression garments.

Meanwhile, coming up in a week will be the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Loire Valley. This year top-lined by teams financially backed by governments - Russian, Chinese, Italian, American (well, Ford anyway - that's the US Government, right? RIGHT?), and the rest a bunch of no-hopers with cocaine cash.

Looks set to be two days and nights of noisy fun-filled petrol haze, and on the third day - a massive clean-up.

You know, if you ever go to Le Mans, the place reeks of rubber and plastic and petroleum fumes... Heavy duty man-made technology...

Nod Nod Wink Wink. 

What A Mess

Judge Emmet Sullivan has a major problem on his hands with the refusal of someone, not quite sure who exactly - since Barr and Trump just declassified it all - to hand over at least the transcripts of the wiretapped conversations between Lt. General Flynn and Kislyak.

Conversations between White House Counsel and Flynn are already on the record - and even here, it is clear the FBI lied and extracted key parts of the conversation from their tendered 'evidence.'

Bond's faves.

What a damned mess.

It's become by now patently clear that the FBI and Robert Mueller in particular have been lying in extremis.

But that's all okay because now we have a 'person of vague gender' doing a re-write on the latest Bond script in order to make it more SJW and diverse and inclusive.

...In the wings we have poor Julia Beck, the actual real Lesbian activist crying foul and the dedicated militant hetero Prof. Greer doing much the same thing - with the media largely ignoring the both of them.

Ah well. It's off to the races then, for us. No, but wait - mid-Winter; nothing much on except the crash-and-burn Queensland Stradbroke. So, no races either.

Baba au Rhum - is quite a big thing, see. The Koran says Jesus returns
'at the Rhum.' And I agree.

"In Perfect Moments, I Want To..."

"Annihilate the guard and surrender - but I cannot be that tender."

LOL

Who...?

Anyone, anyone?

But onto the material physical world of manifested creativity, one of the chief designers at Rolls Royce, conceived the beautiful Faberge 'Spirit of Ecstasy' Egg, which was brought into reality by the House of Faberge last year. It's been doing the rounds of places like Doha and the like, where us Plebs never much venture because we have too few bucks to even breathe the expensive Oud-redolent out air there.

Faberge Rolls Royce 'Spirit of Ecstasy'

Alex Innes, the designer behind the shape, proves once again, albeit it is among a small nay, tiny set of examples of design and creativity in today's world - that humans are not yet completely exhausted as a creating species... Even so though, you would have to say that at virtually every level of popular culture now at least, it is decidedly an effete Age.

In the hands of the top-end mass-market commercial corporations and their chosen design-houses (they are always groups and virtually never individuals in this sector), the exhausted phase of society and culture expresses itself visually in particular in artificial 'cleanliness,' and an imposition of 'purity' onto complicated things and complex systems. Here is an example by the German Design House Cheil - in theory this is a Korean company underneath the Samsung Brand, but in all practicality it is run by Germans. There appears to be some sense in which the top people don't trust in people's capacity to handle sophistication.

This is going to be the style of the Samsung 'pop-up' stores around the world
for the near-term future. An example of what I consider extremely bad design... (There's a truly gratuitous comment for ya).
And yet, there are some stunningly good Samsung 'pop-up' stores around - but these are
where the shopping center management itself imposed their own 'conditions' and effectively,' their own design ideas.

The true leading-edge of human thinking and society and culture now is becoming ever that much more thinned out... There are fewer and fewer people with the active mindsets capable of appreciating sophisticated things and trusting humanity and the intellectual power of human beings.

What does this mean for the future?

I can but smile. Although it is not a nice; not a generous, smile.

Glacial, Slow Revelation re Bugging People

Middle of Summer in Europe is the main 'Vienna Waltz Concerts,' see...

Time when they have to try and 'shoe-horn' the Chairman of the Bank For International Settlements into some kind of tux, maybe, and then after that drama, actually shove him through the two-leaf main hall doors to get him into the theater.

Augustin Carsten is a bloody damn big guy.

Champagne cocktails for after-show parties! 

Not even going to stick a pic of him here - it would damage the 'feel' of the place that much.

The BIS (Bank for International Settlements), basically the thing that runs all of your mainstream retail and commercial banking worldwide, is a NAZI organization, begun by NAZIS and NAZI sympathizers in Switzerland, and funded after the War through melted gold taken from people of all kinds killed in and around Germany and whose gold was taken from them. And that's just a plain fact. Sorry.

Most of those NAZIS involved in banking on 'the wrong side' during the WAR, positioned themselves AFTER the War in... wait for it... wait for it...

Big name opera singer opens the show.
They mostly never show you on the TV, but people have tickets and are seated
all around the auditorium above the dance floor...

Mexico.

Strange how there is this controversy over porous borders down there... Ahem. Cough.

Anyway not to worry. Tonight there is the main Vienna Walzer Concert and party, and Saturday is the 'Supreme Concert.' Continua continua, as the Romans say. Things go on - the story is fundamentally the same. The power-plays are being enacted now beneath the radar; though less so now due to the internet and communication technology and computers. Will we all credit what was going on - when we finally find out... 

Arabism, Orientalism, Modern-esque...

Jones - is this your dad here?

You didn't know he was a famous Paris DJ now, did you...

Claude Challe

This is Claude Challe, a Tunisian who started, along with the Romanian interior designer Raymond Visan, the hugely successful 'Buddha Bar' establishments, virtually right across the globe now.

The absolute 'best-est' one though, is the nightclub/dance-floor, cocktail bar with restaurant, and ultra-private dining rooms - in Monaco.

Most of you will be at least vaguely familiar with the phrase 'Buddha Bar' because it occasionally comes up on your Foxtel music backing between when you are couch surfing and channel switching to try and find (foolishly) anything actually worth watching.

Monaco 

The 'Buddha Bar' LP music is indeed compilations put together by Claude Challe literally from either the Bucharest Buddha Bar or the Monaco one and at least earlier on, his Paris dance clubs and studios.

Buddha Bar menus are all pretty much upscale 'Asian Fusion' food, but the local establishments do also tend to reflect the general local standards too - and consequently, it is the Dubai and the Monaco Buddha Bars that are far and away the most exciting and high quality when it comes to what you are served. 

Paris is today unlivable and the prices are beyond the simply exorbitant. You are better off going to Dubai or Monaco... ...where not only will you get real value for money, but the quality of service and the general atmosphere and interior designs and decor are absolutely stunning. There is a thing called 'Secret Gateway' in Monaco, which you will give you privileged access to the ultimate... ...um ...and quite special... ...moments.