Anegdote

Here we go again... [1]

2012-11-16T17:34:46Z

I chose a particularly eventful day to stop procrastinating and spend all day working, uninterrupted by reading news online. After eight long hours in my salt mine, I turned to BBC to find out that Israeli forces are advancing to Gaza and that two Croatian military officials have been acquitted before the ICTY.

Hiatus Interrupted [5]

2012-05-07T14:01:41Z

I haven’t posted to the blog for almost two years now. I am not happy about that, but at one point I started feeling like there is no space in the blogosphere left for this particular blog. I was mostly covering political and social issues in Serbia and I tried to write about it the way I perceived it: with just the right distance to both take it personally and be able to see the dynamic with which social and political relations were shaping in Serbia.

Belgrade Pride Redux [1]

2010-10-11T05:31:33Z

It doesn’t take much sociological insight to understand that Serbia is a homophobic society. But, this homophobic? I would have never imagined…

Side-effects [2]

2010-07-27T14:17:21Z

The government needs thugs, and thugs need the government. The cycle goes on.

Eurosong Diplomacy [4]

2010-05-31T05:31:20Z

Bregovic wrote a song of utter imbecility. The lyrics are a string of meaningless terms (Belgrade, Balkans, kissing, howitzer) and repetition of “three times”. The singer is the latest turbo folk wunderkid, whose main quality is his unusual hair cut.