January 27, 2005
Last Journey
LEADERONIA- The Secretariat of the Great Leader authorized
the Registry to publish the obituary recieved by fellow citizen
A. Nakhapetian:
On the cold evening of january 24th 2005 the well
loved but often mistreated suffered the final blow
from which it would never recover. many happy moments
were shared inside its weathered doors some of which
are forever forgotten dew to intoxication level of
both passingers and drivers. it served us well though
often attracting the unwanted attention of the low
enforcment that never understood the special mission
of mitsubishi diamante 1993 station vagon.
perhaps it was the fact that it had record number of
broken windows or that several severe dents were never
fixed or the fact that for 6 years of its life in the
hands of Lev, Yura, Agassi and Swagata it was never
washed.
i ask you to wish it a peacefull last journey.
[sic]
Buon Compleanno a Maurizio
Oggi Maurizio, marito della sorella grande del Grande Leader,
compie 44 anni .
Maurizio ha portato la vespa, il vespone, la due cavalli, la deesse, la toyota
e varie volvo. Quando il Grande Leader era ragazzetto, la sorella e Maurizio
se lo portavano in giro con il vespone sull'asse attrezzato fino al mare.
Maurizio e' il padre di Fabrizia, Dimitri, Filippo e Anna.
La Segreteria del Grande Leader augura Maurizio Basile un
indimenticabile compleanno.
January 23, 2005
Buon Compleanno a Giorgio
Oggi Giorgio, primogenito del sorella del Grande Leader, compie 14 anni .
Giorgio nacque pochi giorni dopo l'inizio della Guerra del Golfo.
Nonostante l'aria cupa l'evento porto' una felicita' immensa alle famiglie.
Il piccolo Giorgio crebbe in fretta a farsi posto nel cuore dello zio che
dopo un po' emigro' in America.
Giorgio ora quattordicenne, con la voce di un ometto, vede nel suo futuro
l'istituto di Scienze Sociali, seguendo le tracce del cugino Dimitri,
e una passione per il teatro.
La Segreteria del Grande Leader augura Giorgio D'Arcangelo un
indimenticabile compleanno.
January 20, 2005
Letter To America
By the Great Leader
LEADERONIA-The Office of The Great Leader released the annual
Letter To America by the Great Leader, year 2005.
American children,
To each one of you that wake up
and go to bed under the Great Sky
of the United States of America,
to each of you landlords and
to each of you migrants.
American children, listen.
for I have to tell you about Life.
Prepare to leave your pillows.
It is the morning after a long night.
From above the mountains
Prepare to descend to the Valley.
American children,
observe how things around you will change
while you reach the bottom,
and think about what you are leaving behind.
The powerlines starting to give the blue sky
a grid from your eyes.
The roadway on the ground cutting through
the surface, the grid for your life.
American children,
look at the pulverized hills of grey overpasses
shooting vehicles all around. A Circus.
Long haul vehicle and sport utility vehicles,
recreational and unmarked, cruising within
the code of the road, refueling and rest
next stop ahead. A Feast.
American children,
Be aware of Life at the bottom of the hill,
Deep rivers of fast water hide beneat streams
And murky lakes are invisible throu the woods.
The Great Land under the The Great Sky,
is shrinking and shaking and immense.
American children,
When you are moving by your will
or moving while idle,
you are witness of Life.
January 19, 2005
Well and Vigilant
Poem from the Poetry Czar Comrade KJK
Don't be ashamed, o drunkard,
Of your nose,
For it is of the same color
As our red banner.
January 18, 2005
End of Last Quarter 2004
US Department of the Treasury
IRS.gov
The Great Leader has signed the quartely and final checks for
the year 2004, one to the feds and one to the state and city.
Coming April 15th, Returns are expected and until then the
Accounting office of the Great Leader will be closed for inventory.
The Archive of Entries will feature one year in hystory:
Number One Hit Week
The Second week of the year was the number one hit week.
At 100 hits the week 2 of 2005, all times week.
The Secretary of the Great Leader would like to thank all
visitors, Leaderonians and Foregneirs.
January 17, 2005
Happy Birthday Dr. King
LEADERONIA- Today the Great Leader celebrated
the birthday of one of the greatest leaders of the
Host Country on which Leaderonia exist.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said:
"You'll get freedom by letting your enemy know
that you 'll do anything to get your freedom; then
you'll get it".
The Great Leader invites all Leaderonians to follow
such great words on the road of Freedomization.
Zhao Ziyang died
(Photo Courtesy of BBC)
From Xinhuanet Chinese news agency:
BEIJING, Jan. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Comrade Zhao Ziyang died of
illness in a Beijing hospital Monday. He was 85.
Comrade Zhao had long suffered from multiple diseases affecting
his respiratory and cardiovascular systems, and had been
hospitalized for medical treatment for several times. His conditions
worsened recently, and he passed away Monday after failing to
respond to all emergency treatment.
January 15, 2005
Ricette Italiane
La Tiella Gaetana
[from Luigi]È la pietanza più famosa di Gaeta.
Il suo nome deriva probabilmente dalla teglia in cui viene preparata.
È una pizza, ma non pizza comune.
LE ORIGINI
È la pietanza più famosa di Gaeta.
Il suo nome deriva probabilmente dalla teglia in cui viene preparata.
È una pizza, ma non pizza comune.
Le sue origini sono remote ed incerte e di innegabile matrice popolana.
Probabilmente era in origine una vivanda di comodo, roba per povere
mense degli abitanti del borgo di Gaeta.
Essa è composta da due sottili strati di pasta, sovrapposti e chiusi
lungo i bordi con la pressione delle dita in modo da renderne piacevole
l'aspetto.
Il ripieno di solito è costituito da calama-retti o polpi, ma si possono
usare anche verdure, ortaggi, sar-dine, cipolle, baccalà; praticamente
tutto quello che offriva la campagna e la pesca a seconda delle stagioni.
La tiella ha un sapore particolare. La sua buona riuscita dipende dal
dosaggio e dalla qualità degli ingredienti usati per il ripieno, dalla
lavorazione della pasta, dal ritmo di cottura e naturalmente, dall'estro
della massaia.
Per il condimento si fa uso di olive di Gaeta, acciughe, aglio, prezzemolo,
peperoncino amaro, pomodori, olio, sale. Secondo la tradizione, va cotta
in forno, entro speciali teglie a forma circolare. Si mangia a quarti, senza
l'aiuto di posate, come vuole la tradizione.
COME SI PREPARA
(continua)
Preparazione impasto per 6 Persone:
- 500 gr. di farina
- 20 gr. di lievito naturale
- 3 cucchiai di olio di oliva
- 200 gr. di acqua tiepida
- sale quanto basta
Porre lievito, sale e olio in una scodella e stemperare il tutto. Aggiungere la farina gradualmente fino ad ottenere un impasto omogeneo e ammassarlo con le mani per un quarto d'ora. Spolverare l'impasto ottenuto con farina, avvolgerlo in un canovaccio e lasciarlo lievitare per circa mezza ora in luogo tiepido. A lievitazione avvenuta prelevarne la metà e lavorarla di nuovo con le mani su un asse. Con un matterello spianare la pasta fino a ottenere una sfoglia sottile, che non dovrebbe mai superare un centimetro. Ciò fatto, ungere una teglia con olio in abbondanza e foderarla con la sfoglia preparata. Porre su detta sfoglia, in modo uniforme, il ripieno e ricoprire il tutto con una seconda sfoglia di pasta, dello stesso spessore della prima. Ambedue le sfoglie vanno unite alla circonferenza con la pressione dei polpastrelli sì da farle legare. A questo punto ungere la tiella così ottenuta con olio abbondante e praticare con una forchetta tanti forellini sulla sua superficie sì da consentire all'aria che si forma al suo interno di fuoriuscire senza rompere la sfoglia. Mettere quindi la tiella in forno caldo finché non ha preso il bel colore dorato della cottura.
Le Ricette
Tiella di cipolle e Marzolino (formaggio fresco di capra o pecora):
- 500 gr di farina
- 750 gr di cipolle
- 4 caciottelle
- 50 gr di prezzemolo, burro, olio, pepe, parmigiano grattugiato
Preparare le cipolle nello stesso modo della scarola. Quando esse sono bene asciutte, unirle al formaggio ( tenute in precedenza per dodici ore in acqua fresca per perdere il sale contenuto) assieme agli altri ingredienti sopra detti.
Tiella di polpi:
- 500 gr di farina
- 1 Kg di polpi bolliti e tagliuzzati
- 50 gr di capperi
- 100gr di olive di Gaeta snocciolate
Condire il tutto con abbondante olio, prezzemolo, peperoncino forte e qualche filetto di pomodoro.
Tiella di sarde o alici:
500 gr di farina
- 500 gr di sarde o acciughe fresche
- 3 pomodori pelati
- 2 spicchi d'aglio
- 5 cucchiai di olio di oliva
- prezzemolo, peperoncino, sale
Pulire bene le sarde, spinare e togliere la testa, aprire i due filetti e asportare la lisca centrale e la coda, dopo di che porle a scolare e poi ad asciugare entro un panno pulito.
Versare ora in un piatto olio di oliva, aglio, pomodori pelati ben scolati, sale e un pizzico di peperoncino tritato. Mescolare bene il tutto con un mestolone di legno e aggiungere le sarde. Rimestare con delicatezza per non rovinare il pesce e disporre infine questi sulla sfoglia di fondo già nella teglia. Aggiungere il condimento rimasto nel piatto e coprire il tutto con la seconda sfoglia.
Tiella di scarola:
- 500 gr di farina
- 500 gr di scarola
- 100 gr di olive nere snocciolate
- 50 gr di capperi
- olio, prezzemolo, sale, peperoncino forte
Tagliuzzare finemente la scarola, cospargerla di sale e metterla a cuocere per 15minuti. Schiacciare la verdura così preparata ben bene con le mani per eliminare tutta l'acqua che contiene e condirla con olio, peperoncino forte, prezzemolo, olive, capperi, con l'aggiunta, per chi lo gradisce, 150 gr di baccalà diliscato e tagliato a pezzi grossolani.
January 14, 2005
2 Events for the Week-End
The Department of Cultural Affair is very busy these days.
Leaderonians should be lucky that the Great Leader has not
banned art and culture after the ostilities suffered on a recent
visit in Leaderonia South.
Instead Our Leadership has created this Department and hired
the most refined intellects to advise him on cultural events and so
from the eclectic Secretary of Sound Research comes a soiree at
Sculpture Center, and from the uberinformed Ms. Numberonehitsong
a unique look at islamic photographic portraiture at NYU Grey Gallery.
Click below for event informations.
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Exhibition Opening: January 16, 2005, 4-6pm
at SculptureCenter
44-19 Purves Street
Long Island City
718 361 1750
Please join us on Sunday, January 16 to celebrate the opening of SculptureCenter's winter exhibitions on view from January 16 - April 10, 2005.
Petah Coyne: Above and Beneath the Skin
SculptureCenter presents the premiere of Petah Coyne's touring survey exhibition, encompassing all phases in her development. Works include hay, mud, and sand works from the 1970s, wax chandelier pieces from the 1980s, hair and mixed media pieces from the 1990s, as well as recent work.
In Practice Projects
The fifth round of SculptureCenter's ongoing project series for new site-specific work. Projects by Max Goldfarb, Nicholas Herman, Elana Herzog, Justin Lowe, Linda Post, Karlis Rekevics, and Michael J. Schumacher.
DIRECTIONS.
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NYU’s GREY ART GALLERY PRESENTS RARE GLIMPSE OF PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE ARAB WORLD
Mapping Sitting:
ON PORTRAITURE AND PHOTOGRAPHY.
A Project by Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari – Arab Image Foundation
January 11–April 2, 2005
A media artist based in New York and Beirut, and creator of the innovative project known as The Atlas Group, Walid Raad is Assistant Professor of Art at Cooper Union. Akram Zaatari lives and works in Beirut, and has made more than 30 videos, including This Day (2003), How I Love You (2001), and Her + Him Van Leo (2001). Zaatari is a co-founder of the Arab Image Foundation; Raad sits on its board.
ADDRESS: Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, NYC 10003
HOURS: Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 11:00 am to 6:00 pm;
OPEN LATE Wednesday: 11:00 am to 8:00 pm;
Saturday: 11:00 am to 5:00 pm; Sunday, Monday, and major holidays: Closed
SUGGESTED ADMISSION: $3.00, Free to NYU students, faculty, and staff
January 13, 2005
Verene on Cracker
LEADERONIA- One of the Great Leader favorite people
is Mr. Chris Verene. He is a photographer/drummer and
overall an american child.
The first time the GL encountered Mr.Verene was in Times
Square NY. The GL was walking with Segretary Of Sound
Jung when they stopped in front of a shop window where
a gentleman with a tuxedo and fake mustaches was talking
in to a mike and with the help of two young ladies dressed
up in circus outfit was demostrating various sensational tricks.
On the sidewalk among the crowds watching the show the
GL ons Mr. Jung responded to Mr. Verene call for a volounteer.
The Performance was astonishing, the large man in the window
dared everyone and the GL, at that moment in the window, to
put his bare hand in a hot scorching toaster. He did.
The stunt was one the many exceptional events that occur in
the city of New York, and the GL walked out of that window
only to find himself in a museum in Paris, The Centre Pompidou,
and browsing art books where he spotted a familiar face in a
photography book by an american Chris Verene. Same guy.
Now the star of Mr. Verene is bright and after other detours like
playing in a band, Cordero, as a shoeless drummer, the GL holds
this performer high in his list of events attendances, and recently
he was invited by email to Mr. Verene new event, CRACKER.
The Department of Cultural Affair with The Secretariat of the GL
invites Leaderonians to attend this event and to continue reading
the invitation received by clicking the link below.
Chris Verene will be showing work in this exhibit:
January 7 - February 13, 2005
CRACKER: re-thinking the American South
A group exhibition of contemporary art curated by Kathleen Brady
Opening Reception: Friday, January 7, 2005.
CRACKER explores the contemporary American South through paintings,
sculpture, works on paper, and video art that examine issues of race,
history, memory, place and spirituality.
This exhibition runs simultaneously at Naked Duck Gallery with an
opening reception on Friday 7th from 8-10pm.
CRACKER explores the contemporary American South through paintings,
sculpture, works on paper, and video art that examine issues of race,
history, memory, place and spirituality.
Location:
NURTUREart Gallery located at 475 Keap St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Directions: It is near the intersection of Union and Metropolitan Avenues,
and is just steps from the L train Lorimer station or the G train
Metropolitan Ave. station.
January 12, 2005
Comrade Kosmonaut
1961- Yuri Gagarin is the first man to enter the airless void of
the infinite space, on his Vostok 1 rocket.
January 11, 2005
Bimonthly Best Times
From the Director of the Almanac we receive the Astrological
Timetable, please take note of.
HERE IS AN astrological timetable, based on the Moon's signs,
showing the best days for certain activities during the current and
next month.
Skin Ad
From the Office of Foreign Intelligence:
In an effort to understand the social canvas of the Host Land,
The United States, the new Office of Foreign Intelligence will
provide all Leaderonians the opportunity to read and discuss
the chronicle of the american human struggle, a struggle for
survival.
Here is a story of a man, Andrew Fisher.
Man auctions ad space on forehead
A 20-year-old US man is selling advertising space on his forehead to the highest bidder on website eBay.
Andrew Fisher, from Omaha, Nebraska, said he would have a non-permanent logo or brand name tattooed on his head for 30 days.
"The way I see it I'm selling something I already own; after 30 days I get it back," he told the BBC Today programme.
Mr Fisher has received 39 bids so far, with the largest bid currently at more than $322 (£171).
"The winner will be able to send me a tattoo or have me go to a tattoo parlour and get a temporary ink tattoo on my forehead and this will be something they choose, a company name or domain name, perhaps their logo," he told the Radio 4 programme.
I wouldn't go around with 666, the mark of the beast
Andrew Fisher
On the online auction, Mr Fisher describes himself as an "average American Joe, give or take".
His sales pitch adds: "Take advantage of this radical advertising campaign and become a part of history."
Mr Fisher said that while he would accept any brand name or logo, "I wouldn't go around with a swastika or anything racial".
He added: "I wouldn't go around with 666, the mark of the beast.
"Other than that I wouldn't promote anything socially unacceptable such as adult websites or stores."
He said he would use the money to pay college - he is planning to study graphic design.
The entrepreneur said his mother was initially surprised by his decision but following all the media attention she felt he was "thinking outside the box".
Published: 2005/01/10 12:03:42 GMT
© BBC MMV
January 10, 2005
Missed Opportunities
LEADERONIA- The Department of Cultural Affair has released
the latest ART REVIEW by the Great Leader today.
With a delegation of art students from the Pratt Institute the GL
has visited with Her Greatness the recently renewed Brooklyn
Museum on Eastern Parkway.
One of the GL priority was to evaluate the new entrance that
has recieved wide praise by the local media circus, but the GL
was not impressed and lashed out a comment that the Dept. of
Ethics and Freedoms prefers not to report on this Communique.
The Great Leader, known as passionate architophile, was then
disappointed by the "standard institutional look of this once decent
building" and said that " it looks like a bank, or a lazy commercial
center" and more " boring and unispiring".
Polshek Partnership Architects designed the renovation.
Then, after a lift up to the 4th floor the delegation visited the exhibit
"Passing/Posing: Paintings by Kehinde Wiley" a collection of large
oil painted canvases featuring young afro-american males posing as
white powerful male subject of the Renaissance master as Tiepolo,
Tiziano and so on, all very colorful and sprinkled by golden sperms.
The artist, a young one being born in 1977, seems very talented at
painting portraits and using patterns, sometimes kind of clever, but
the overall result , in the Great Leader's opinion, is shallow and geared
toward a simplific commercial avenue, maybe soda or running shoes.
The Great Leader althought did appreciated to browse a volume of art
among the books at the entrance of the exhibit, a book about one of
favorite painters of all time: Jean August Dominique Ingres.
January 07, 2005
Buon Compleanno a Caterina
Oggi Caterina, seconda figlia del sorella del Grande Leader, compie 9 anni .
Caterina e' una brava ginnasta e ballerina ritmica, a cui piace Britney Spears
e tutte le canzoni pop estive. A scuola preferisce la lingua inglese.
La Segreteria del Grande Leader augura Caterina D'Arcangelo un indimenticabile
compleanno.
January 06, 2005
Poetry Czar
LEADERONIA- In a rare act of self criticism the Great Leader has
disbanded the History day program, and has directed his office to
turn the Historic Daily entry in Weekly. This is due, said the GL, to
the boring nature of some events, banning all boring things.
To much joy for the people of Leaderonia the Office of Culture
and Progress is delighted to announce the appointment of
Commarade KJK to the highest poetry post, and his return to
his natural land of North Leaderonia.
Commarade KJK is a prolific scholar and poetry passionate that
in order to honor his appointment and announcement has picked
a classic of all classic from Mayakovsky repertoire.
The Office of Culture and Progress invite Leaderonians to read below.
Rally the ranks into a march!
Now's no time to quibble or browse there.
Silence, you orators!
You
have the floor,
Comrade Mauser.
Enough of living by laws
that Adam and Eve have left.
Hustle old history's horse.
LEFT!
LEFT!
LEFT!
Ahoy, blue jackets!
Cross the sky-moats!
Beyond the oceans!
Unless
your battleships on the roads
blunted their keels' fighting keenness!
Baring the teeth of his crown,
let
the lion of Britain whine, gale-heft.
The commune can never go down.
LEFT!
LEFT!
LEFT!
There-
beyond sorrow's peaks,
sunlit lands uncharted.
Against hunger,
against plague's dark seas,
the marching of millions has started!
Let armies of hirelings ambush us,
streaming cold steel through every rift, -
L'Entente can't conquer the Russians,
LEFT!
LEFT!
LEFT!
Does the eye of the eagle fade?
Shall we stare back to the old?
Proletarian fingers
the throat of the world
still tighter hold!
Chests out!
Shoulders straight!
Stick to the sky red flags adrift!
Whose marching there with the right?!!
LEFT!
LEFT!
LEFT!
(V.V. Mayakovsky)
January 05, 2005
January 5th
1589 Caterina De' Medici dies at 69 years of age.
1878 Birth of Nelly Roussel. Free thinker, anarchist and feminist.
1914 Ford Motor Company announced that there would be a new
daily minimum wage of $5 and an (shortened) eight-hour work day.
1919 Revolt in Berlin by the Spartacists. led by Karl Liebknech
and Rosa Luxembourg.
1977 Italian Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer speaks
in Bucarest, Romenia to other leaders about Eurocommunism.
1979 Charlie Mingus dies.
1969 Birth of Marylin Manson.
January 04, 2005
Fire everywhere
LEADERONIA- Having decided to wear only a light jacket
the One Leader, The Great Leader walked out the Red
Residence into the early afternoon to ear a roar of news
choppers north east of Leaderonia.
Once arrived on top of hill he could see four idle birds
scanning what could only have been Long Island City.
One half hour later after emerging onto Madison Avenue
in the neighbor island of Manhattan, the Great Leader
witnessed a typical firefighting scene at the corner of 57th
street and 5 th avenue.
Again from the 37th floor of the white tower where the GL
goes to help the cosmetic industry from time to time, from
the windows that overlook Queens, a few smoke column
rising into the grey sky.
And this is report from the NY News.
The Great Leader is convinced that closing down the Firehouses
around the City was a bad idea.
Blind hunger, read anger
1809-Louis Braille was born. He developed system of writing
that could be felt and interpreted by the blind; not widely recognized
until after his death; died Jan 6, 1852
1932-Ghandi begins fast to win suffrage for untouchables
1997-80.000 rally in Ogoni portion of Nigeria against
military dictatorships and Shell oil
January 03, 2005
New Category
The Great Leader is proud to announce that for the new year
there will be new categories added in to Leaderonia Journal.
Thanks to Her Greatness's younger brother, the Great Leader
was provided with a long sought 2005 Slingshot organizer,
which informs the GL everyday of facts happened in History.
2005-Quadrantic Meteor Shower
1781-Inca Rebellion.
Inca besiege Cuzco (Peru) in attempt to dislodge Spani
1964-450.000 public school kids strike in NYC to protest
segregation and poverty
There will be more source added and mentioned to provide
Lederonians with accurate information on History.
WARM NEW YEAR
LEADERONIA- Balmy weather has opened the New Year,
making the selection of clothing rather challenging for
leaderonians whom have small closets and all their spring
apparels boxed in basements.
The Great Leader which has returned to the official post after
the holidays of the year end, was asked about what new policy
will he provide to resolve this temperature rising.
Without an official statement the GL adviced fellow citizens
to complain less and to enjoy what human have asked their
gods for milleniumns : free heat during the winter.