I’ve spoken before about how parts of Belgrade remind me of America. I really don’t know what to make of the above photo - it’s a bit apocalyptic and not really what I thought would be the outcome. Perhaps I imagine America to be the home of apocalypse - exposure to the Terminator films probably caused this.

Apocalypse in Serbia gives me an uneasy feeling about the politics of the Balkans. Not least because now is a time for optimism as much as it is for grievance. Still, there is something very cleansing about overexposed photos of such a setting. I never realised rubbish could look pristine.

Perhaps both America and Serbia are in need of a clean up.

Not a fan of animals.

I had an interesting conversation the other night about how the battle of Kosovo (the previous one, not the current) meant something far different for serbs back then than it does now.

So the conversation turned to whether the victors get to write history. Perhaps they do, except in the case of 1066, Vietnam and Kosovo.

George Washington, another outspoken supporter of Serbia’s position on Kosovo.

I aim to provide translations of the quotes (as soon as I learn some more Serbian).

Thought the posters this year about Kosovo being Serbia exhibited a strange admixture of the fervent, and sly. Quoting world leaders, whose words may or may not support Serbia’s position on Kosovo, the cyrillics hardly send out an obvious message to the rest of the world.

In all JFK, George Washington, Abe Lincoln, de Gaulle and Churchill lent their voices to the cause - albeit in death.

More to come.

This, on the other hand, was far easier to process… which is the selling point of convenience food.

Hooray for Serbian democracy…

A group of Belgrade lawyers are challenging the acquisition of Belgrade’s harbour by Serbia’s 2nd richest man, Miroslav Mišković. Apparently nobody has the right to sell the land, no matter how many supermarkets, ice-cream factories and farmers the buyer may own.

I’ve been meaning to take this picture for some time. Yes it is Jeff from Coupling (alias Richard Coyle), apparently modeling for ‘Neckershop’. In case you were wondering what happened to him in the last series, I now provide picture evidence of an open-ended theory, whatever it may be.

Of all the characters from Coupling, I do wonder why they chose Jeff.

There’s an easy way to get loads of views on flickr. So to wax the wayne of my view count, there’s the above. Here’s hoping…