Friday is Skyday

Friday the 13th
completing a sun orbit.
What a fine omen.

Laughing Lhursday*

Niall Tóibín (born 21 November 1929)

* [For first time visitors]:
Typo in the title?
Nah.
It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

Eccola!

Joan Sutherland (7 November 1926 – 10 October 2010)

Milord

La Foule

Édith Piaf (19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963)

Jacques Brel

Jacques Brel (8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978)

Saturday Night Music with Eliane Rodrigues

Eliane Rodrigues *7 October 1959

Happy Birthday, Milady. :)

Saturday Night Music with Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould (25 September 1932 – 4 October 1982)

Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990)

Johann Sebastian Bach

Anniversary of an Assassination

Surely the President of the Russian Federation enjoys a most happy day with all his dear friends, and everyone will have done his best to make the flawless democrat happy.
I wonder which one was the most special present today.

 
Eleven years ago, October 7th, 2006 some admirers intended to surprise (?) their beloved President with a very very special present - and let assassinate Anna Politkovskaya.

Well, and here's a List of murdered Russian journalists.

Friday is Skyday

Peace Nobel Prize.
Those with the bomb keep relaxed.
ICAN – you can't.

Laughing Lhursday*

Flann O'Brien (5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966)

Eamon Morrissey

* [For first time visitors]:
Typo in the title?
Nah.
It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.

101, Flann, eh? :)

Flann O'Brien (5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966)

Peace Price for Erdoĝan

With twelve days delay:
September 22nd, Aslı Erdoĝan in Osnabrück received the Erich Maria Remarque Friedenspreis (= PeacePrice).

And this months a book with some of her very latest essays got published in German:

Nicht einmal das Schweigen gehört uns noch.

It won't come as a surprise that in Turkey these essays 'do not exist'.
It seems in English they have not (yet) been published, but in French:
Le silence même n'est plus à toi (Lettres turques.

Finally, here the English wikipedia entry about Erich Maria Remarque.
And here the English wikipedia entry about his most famous book: Im Westen nicht Neues / All Quiet on the Western Front.