Leather Fair Draws International Community

The three-day long All African Leather Fair (AALF), organised by the Ethiopian Leather Industries Association (ELIF), ended on a note of satisfaction.

- Ethiopian News, February 2010

Not lost in transLaportation

No-one carries the English in their hearts.

- Bernard Laporte

Five-and-a-bit Dials

Numero huit-b.

Ici.

Ethiopians vs the World (Service)

Ethiopian tour operators tear it up in Docklands in anger at the BBC.

One sympathises.

Exporting tossers to Krakow

Bugoslawska Marcinkowska fights crime in the Renaissance Market.

[Thanks to AT]

Yes, mate!

Machan - coming soon to Europe!

American history wtf?

The New Press has a category entitled World History/WWII.

Everything you need to know about the American isolationist mentality...

The broad church of academia

... with the ever-dwindling congregation.

Cussed are the peace-makers

Letter from the Colombo's first Art Biennale [sic.].

Lock up your children: 2

Seriously.

ID vs ego

From the Sri Lankan Department of Immigration and Emigration Residence Visa form:

12. Any identification Marks of Peculiarities? [sic.]

Until otherwise instructed, I'm going to assume I don't need to attach a picture of my Prince Albert...

Eire land?

Speaking of Ryanair, whenever a Ryanair flight (succesfully) lands, a triumphant fanfare pipes up over the cabin intercom. The fanfare is accompanied by the supposedly comforting words, "90% of Ryanair flights land on time!"

As my sister was quick to point out: "The other 10% crash."

AR UPDATE

For those of you who (like me) are often miffed by the unnecessarily cryptic nature of some of the posting on this blog (mentioning no names, Smyth), I should make it clear right now that my fellow amnesiac [way too cryptic - Eds.] has biffed off to Sri Lanka for real, setting up shop in Colombo, teaching teenage girls home economics, or something. Hence the recent inactivity on Re(AR)view. Hope that's clearasil.

Myself, I just got back from France, which is preferable to Sri Lanka is every way but one: they don't play cricket in France. Fuck knows why. Probo cos they's French. But still... How can any nation pass up the fun that was yesterday at The Oval? (This may be the only mention of England's glorious victoire on this blog, mainly cos when you write funny (innit) it's hard as flambéed horse meat to write earnestly about anything that you can't stop grinning/tearing up about. Shame that.) I did watch a local boules tournament in a local village about the size of my foot. Or, at least, the boules players watched my sister and I as we tried to watch them. Admittedly, together we are very tall, Whop Corn and I (see images below for confirmation), but I thought the general level of staring over the course of our vacay was a little overdone (unlike our steaks, thank Dieu).

Anyhow, somewhat amusingly, I returned to find this message from my fellow amnesiac waiting for me in my inbox, sent about thirty seconds before I hauled ass across La Manche:

Will be getting internet hooked up at home, certainly by the time you're back from France. Post a holding note on the AR, meanwhile, to the effect that we are both away ('but not together...').

Vive la revaluation!

Couldn't have put it better myself. Which is probo why I didn't.

Amnesiac Re(AR)review Goes International!

The Amnesiac Review is proud to announce the official opening of our Colombo office.

Please continue to send all correspondence to the usual address.

A little bit of Ceylon (in Brixton)

Interview with artist/author/lecturer Roma Tearne.

East-European szhppam

"Престижные часы Patek Philippe, Rado, Hublot. Экономьте в кризис, цены от 7475 рублей.‏"

All I really want to know is - How does 'Donnie Eubanks' know I speak Russian?!

India UPDATE

From my (newly-wed) pal Dr. Björn Öldbean:

"India is always interesting. Out on the street just now I heard lots of drums being beaten, and when I looked a tightrope had been set up and a kid was walking across it with a water jar on her head."

In Ernes'

To drop one 't' may be regarded as a misfortune. To drop two looks like Kentishness.

Nixon in Egypt

Is it just me, or has Tricky Dick made a posthumous appearance on the front pages?

The question

How ironic is it that Don Quixote rode a horse?

(Or does that gag not work in Spanish?)