NvB: Bored in Brno?: Smoke 'em Out

Smoke 'em Out

Smoke 'em Out
Originally uploaded by youplayawhat.

I found this cartoon in the editorial pages of the Czech press. It ran in Mladá fronta Dnes, 14 April 2003, page A8. The caricatures are by Filip Škoda. It features ex-premier Vladimír Špidla speaking to George W. Bush, presumably at a tram stop:

Špidla (to Bush): "So you say you want to smoke the terrorists out of their holes, huh? We will not be able to help you much with that. We have very strict anti-smoking laws here at the moment."

This appears to be an anti-war cartoon, but it's combined with a statement on Czech smoking laws (or perhaps an anti-anti-smoking laws statement?). Unfortunately the post I wanted to link to about the laws has disappeared (it seems the blog has become a defunct pornography advertisement...ah the blogosphere), so you will have to take GlobalVoices's word for it. There was also my post on the dog situation.

Tag: Czech, smoking, Bush

Posted 29 April 2006 at 09:25.

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What is "Bored in Brno"? a) the best Czech movie of 2003, b) a blog about Brno (the Czech Republic's second largest city) and my adventures in and observations of south and east Moravia. I usually post about music, arts, culture, and stuff in Brno; or, I talk about whatever; or, I may bore you.

There's a Czech saying about how you are a new person for every language you learn. Here's your chance to experience Czech vicariously and to become your new self, now conveniently available in English translation. (Or at least something reasonably close to English.)

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A graduate student in music and anthropology writing a dissertation about music in Moravia, the eastern third of the Czech Republic. At some point, the Czech Republic's "second city" (that would be Brno) captured my attention, and I've since been blogging about events, arts, music, and other stuff—basically whatever interests me in and around the cityscape. I'm not living in Brno now, but I keep up with the cultural pulse from afar as best I can.

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