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d the current disaster and suffering in haiti all elicit the same response oh my god indeed could it be that the biblical prohibition against taking the name of god in vain was offered in part to yield the secular benefit of ensuring that we match our responses and emotions to the significance and worth of what conjures them forth and what about the deity or deities that screamers of oh my god claim as their own is it not unwise and unkind to distract him her it them from higher concerns with repeated screams for attention still oh my god represents but a humorous sideshow in the misuse of the divine name during world war i allied propaganda made grist of german artillery shells stamped with the words gott ist mit uns god is with us and by the way look at how far imperial germany s divinely sanctioned munitions got them to use another example from the same conflict those who know theater history new york s group theatre specifically might remember the haunting scene from the kurt weil musical johnny johnson an absurdist take off on jaroslav hasek s satire of war good soldier schweik in which identically dressed priests simultaneously bless and invoke god s name in english and german on behalf of the troops massed for battle on their respective sides of the front lines even in the course of my my own lifetime i remember from the hottest days of the cold war the mandatory insertion as a talisman against the specter of nuclear attack of the words one nation under god into the compulsory pledge of allegiance to the flag of the united states once recited each morning by public school students throughout the country to return to the present all us currency paper and coin bears the words in god we trust an apt statement of the hiving off of human responsibility and avoidance of intervention that could have staved off fiscal and economic calamity and prevented the dollar s nose dive fall against the non divinely protected euro during american political campaigns candidates from both sides of the aisle refer to and invoke god just about as often as do the leaders of countries that america labels fundamentalist could it be that the mealy mouthed piety of american politicians and the collective din of millions upon millions of needless oh my gods constituted a sufficient violation of not taking the name of god in vain as to prompt a divinely afflicted plague of financial disasters mortgage defaults and unemployment sound absurd it is no less absurd than what follows a nation without infrastructure a recent op ed article in the new york times by author james wood described the patent danger of pat robertson s idiotic pronouncement that the recent earthquake in haiti was divine retribution for its people s history of idolatry however the article also treats the less obvious dangers of americans smug pronouncements of there but for the grace of god go we better to leave the deity alone and to look first at tectonics and geophysics and then as odd as it may first sound turn to a topic i ve posted on extensively in the past on this site and hope to return to in the weeks to come infrastructure stronger earthquakes than the one in haiti have struck locales in the developed world and occasioned far less destruction carnage and suffering in such cases the infrastructure of urban and regional life could far better withstand the shock and the infrastructures of transportation medical and social service could were sufficient to handle the aftermath as a poor country in the shadow of a rich neighbor haiti is infrastructurally weak on all counts where could the money come from to finally begin to boost haiti s economy and bring its infrastructure up to snuff in a recent facebook post doug henwood of the left business observer noted that the annual gross national product of haiti is but 20 of the bonus pool of one of the major investment banks and to that even i albeit with an old fashioned lower east side accented growl rather than a nasal whine am almost tempted to say o my god but rather than take the name in vain i ll simply quote the words of an old fashioned harlem heavy in gordon parks s original version of shaft as he described his partner having been tossed out of a window by the film s hero that s some cold s he said slowly some very cold s indeed posted in infrastructure istanbul language religion 3 comments bubkes in purgatory and an upcoming change in this url posted by stephen lewis on january 27 2010 bubkes org my long running photo based weblog treating urban and historical oddities and my on and off involvement in balkan architectural urban and religious history is no longer online the server on which bubkes was hosted has closed and the format on which it was based manila one of the original pioneering weblog formats has gone the way of the eight track tape and the 5 inch floppy i hope to have bubkes org up and running again this time on wordpress sometime in the next month or so and possibly at the same url more on this to follow the redeemed site will feature new articles in the same spirit and style and from time to time will recycle some of the more popular among the site s small readership that is stories and medium format analogue photography from the past by the way if anyone out there knows a competent reasonably priced service for converting a manila format archive to wordpress or another non dinosaur platform do let me know note as of this writing a google cached snapshot of bubkes org can still be viewed at http tinyurl com yaksr9c also in the next weeks i plan to change the url of hakpaksak to http hakpaksak org and or http www hakpaksak org thus should this site is no longer be available via its present url https hakpaksak wordpress com please look for it under either of the two planned new addresses posted in announcements leave a comment hakpaksak resumed four months four books four subjects and the fight for energy efficiency posted by stephen lewis on january 17 2010 since late august i ve neglected to post to this site and to my alter ego weblog bubkes org which has been offline intermittently while i search for a new server to host it the cause a constitutional inability to take the keyboard equivalent of a bus driver s vacation i e to write for pleasure while also editing translating and re writing long copy texts embodying the thoughts intents and foibles of others rather than my own thus as a first step towards reviving both weblogs i ll mention the publication of two new volumes in the realization of which i played peripheral but work intensive roles as well as the surprise republication of a third volume and the rediscovery of a fourth for those who follow the professional i e corporate and institutional consultancy and communications sides of my work i should also write that i spent much of october editing and revising the presentation of a major financing agency of the european commission for the copenhagen climate change conference a good part of the presentation focused on opportunities and strategies for cutting energy consumption and improving energy efficiency in urban contexts and the movement of people and goods matters relevant to other research i am doing while attempting to navigate my way through the present crisis meijer de haan a master revealed the first of the four volumes alluded to in the title of this entry is meijer de haan a master revealed published by editions hazan and edited by jelka kröger of the jewish historical museum amsterdam the book gives an illustrated overview of the life and work of de haan a minor impressionist painter best remembered if at all as a pupil of paul gauguin and a friend and correspondent of theo van gogh the brother of the famed painter vincent de haan born and raised in the jewish quarter of amsterdam was one of the first jews to enter the mainstream of dutch art and one of the first dutch painters to follow vincent van gogh into the avant garde of european art my own role in the project was that of dutch to english translator editor of most of the essays comprising the volume a task valued by the better contributors but stubbornly resisted and resented by authors of contributions in need of serious fixing more rewarding was the opportunity to recast into english de haan s letters to theo van gogh and selected correspondence between theo and vincent most upsetting was to trace the stories of all of de haan s dutch jewish associates and pupils up to their deportation and murder by the germans and their willing dutch sycophants during the second world war in all it was a pleasure to work with jelka kröger and her indefatigable understudy sara tas to articulate the story of de haan and lend background to his work the volume was compiled and published to accompany the first ever major exhibition of de haan s work the exhibition has been on view at the jewish historical museum in amsterdam and will move to the musee d orsay in paris sometime early in 2010 selected pages of the book can be seen in issuu format on the website of the volume s designers mapping istanbul last october i had the pleasure of joining the staff of garanti gallery an art foundation supported by turkey s garanti bank in istanbul for several days of marathon work sessions evaluating and revising sections of text for the gallery s latest publication mapping istanbul a cartographic translation of a range of socio economic data attempting to give overview shape and updated definition to the ever growing and increasingly amorphous megalopolis that istanbul has become the maps themselves embody the input of a score of contributors including the decade long research data crunching and mapping efforts of social geographer murat güvenç of bilgi university istanbul more on prof güvenç and his work including his upcoming exhibition presenting in cartographic form the demographic economic cultural and physical transformation of istanbul over the last 100 years in a subsequent entry maps for the present volume were designed and produced by the istanbul based architectural and design practice superpool with whom i am happy to be collaborating on other studies related to urban growth and change texts accompanying the maps were written by a host of contributors me amongst them and range from the explanatory to the highly subjective m apping istanbul is the third in a series of books portraying and redefining istanbul conceived and published by garanti gallery the first becoming istanbul is a sometimes whimsical sometimes serious and all too often erroneous glossary of things places concepts and impressions that comprise istanbul from the rings and tweets of the akbil electronic bus ferry tram and metro token to the customs of the hamam traditional turkish bath to the one time cluster of popular film production companies along a street call yeşilçam and the long ago and very brief flight of a zeppelin over the city s historical peninsula the second tracing istanbul portrays the changing sprawling and ever expanding city through aerial photography the end of a love that never began on a recent visit to sofia i discovered that krayat na edna nezapochnata lyubov the end of a love that never began a volume of autobiographic reflections by bulgarian acoustical scientist cinema sound man and humorist georgi johnny penkov has been republished the book first appeared in 2001 and contains amongst its many illustrations masterful photographs of sofia and its inhabitants taken in the 1920s and 30s by johnny s father and a number of somewhat less masterful candid and posed portraits i took of johnny and associates at johnny s 60 th birthday celebration in 1993 a memorable event that johnny has promised to reprise in 2053 and again in 2113 and during bulgaria s winter crisis of 1996 7 the book also contains a reproduction of a 1950s bulgarian secret police report on johnny obtained years later under what passes as bulgaria s version of the u s freedom of information act the report by the way concluded that johnny posed no dangers to the bulgarian state and society soon after the initial publication of johnny s book a friend r skimmed through my autographed copy r s father had entered bulgaria s secret police at the top of its hierarchy at the founding of communist bulgaria in 1944 but due in part to his pride in his jewish identity and his discomfort at obligatory participation in ritual denunciations of israel and zionism later fell through the ranks and out of the police and ended his work life as a porter at the metal smelting plant at kremikovski just outside of sofia kremikovski a relic of the application of stalinist style shock industrialization to the traditional agricultural and food processing based economy of bulgaria now stands idle if i am correct r paused when he came to the photo of the secret police report in johnny s book he pointed to the signature at the end of document and said of its author ah uncle x a dear man he always brought us gifts and helped when my father was in trouble might johnny s seeming persecutor really have been his angel the macedonian dialects of western sofia when in sofia i rarely have to phone people sofia has more than doubled in population over the last 20 years from one million to about two and a half and much of its economic life has moved to its periphery but nevertheless the center of the city is sufficiently frequented and sufficiently compact for one inevitably to encounter acquaintances whether one wants to or not one long time acquaintance who i inevitably and gladly bump into within days of my arrival is angel angelov a present day professor of linguistics at sofia university and a popular underground folk and protest singer during the last years of communism and the first chaotic years that followed long ago when i first applied for a fulbright grant to bulgaria angel went far out on a limb to officially vouch for my competence in spoken bulgarian in the late 1990s angel published a study on the lingering of linguistic influences of the early 20 th century macedonian refugees who settled at the western edge of sofia pravilata na ezika v stolichniya kvartal and for some reason chose as its cover illustration a photo of an oddly windowless and door less balcony of an early 20 th century sofia residential building that he had seen at an exhibition of my photographs note the photo is a sufficiently worthy metaphor for bulgaria that i submitted it tongue in cheek to the competition for a new national symbol and coat of arms prior to the country s entry into the european union needless to say my entry was not accepted the winning design a traditional comic opera imperial lion and shield affair the stock symbol of 19th century contrived nation states in search of a pedigree and european identity coincidentally i had come across my copy of angel s book only days before running into him during my most recent visit to sofia also coincidentally angel and i encou...