http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/posts/2008/04/page/1/ en Vox Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:04:46 +0200 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/space-fillers.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Comrade Fatso) http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/space-fillers.html?_c=feed-rss http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/space-fillers.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:04:46 +0200 The streets are empty. The state has retreated. So has the opposition. All we are left with are their torn posters, pasted over each other in a confusing collage of symbols and slogans. We also have their space-fillers. Riot police aimlessly wal... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/space-fillers.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4142fa2f4685e00e398f2f1f10005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/steps.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Comrade Fatso) http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/steps.html?_c=feed-rss http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/steps.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:35:17 +0200 "We used to respect him. But we don't any more", says the old taxi driver. "Mugabe should have left power and been a hero like Mandela", he continues,"Now there's no food, no fuel. He's fucked it up." Everyone in South Africa has an opinion on ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/steps.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4142fa2f4685e00f48d0d90c40001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/egoli.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Comrade Fatso) http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/egoli.html?_c=feed-rss http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/egoli.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:25:10 +0200 Fast, arrogant, blind, seductive. This is Egoli, Johannesburg. The City of Gold. Attracting hordes of Southern African moths with its sensual shine. Prosperity lives here. So does poverty. It's a city that has a passionate night with you and then ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/egoli.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4142fa2f4685e00e398f010d00005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/things-stand-still.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Comrade Fatso) http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/things-stand-still.html?_c=feed-rss http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/things-stand-still.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:27:05 +0200 Hope easily becomes frustration. People’s dreams are daily being butchered into a nightmare. The dream of last week becomes the agony of this week. A week is a short time in politics. Here in Zimbabwe we have learnt that in the most painful wa... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/things-stand-still.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4142fa2f4685e00e398eeda1b0004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/the-blank-billboards.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Comrade Fatso) http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/the-blank-billboards.html?_c=feed-rss http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/the-blank-billboards.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:33:59 +0200 The billboards are blank. Like the people’s faces. Everything seems to have stopped. Billboards that used to be megaphones for products now become the products of politics. They are littered around the city. Huge metallic creations that proclai... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/the-blank-billboards.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4142fa2f4685e00e398ee93080005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/bread-milk-and-toilet-paper.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Comrade Fatso) http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/bread-milk-and-toilet-paper.html?_c=feed-rss http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/bread-milk-and-toilet-paper.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:50:23 +0200 Torn posters of presidential candidates on durawalls. At every intersection. At every street corner. It feels like something from the past, from another era. But this is the era we are in now. Still hanging on the sun-soaked slogans of these rippe... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/bread-milk-and-toilet-paper.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4142fa2f4685e00f48ceca9650003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/fear-and-limbo-in-harare.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Comrade Fatso) http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/fear-and-limbo-in-harare.html?_c=feed-rss http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/fear-and-limbo-in-harare.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:32:06 +0200 And now we have fear. A new, complex emotion to add to our ragged shopping basket that also holds anger, hope and anxiety. We fear that the regime may begin to end the beginnging of the end by trying to end our new beginning. We fear that the las... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/fear-and-limbo-in-harare.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4142fa2f4685e00e398ede5860005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/the-anger.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Comrade Fatso) http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/the-anger.html?_c=feed-rss http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/the-anger.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:48:39 +0200 Winter is a refreshing month. Clean, pure skies of sunlight. No clouds. It almost feels as if Zimbabwe has cleansed itself and is starting anew. ........................................... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/the-anger.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4142fa2f4685e00f48cebe74e0002?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/if-only-kids-could-vote.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Comrade Fatso) http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/if-only-kids-could-vote.html?_c=feed-rss http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/if-only-kids-could-vote.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:44:13 +0200 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4142fa2f4685e00e398ed24250004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00d4142fa2f4685e00e398ed24250004-50si" alt="Poetry slam 2" /></a> <a href="http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4142fa2f4685e00f48ceb8fd20002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00d4142fa2f4685e00f48ceb8fd20002-50si" alt="Poetry slam photo 1" /></a> <a href="http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/photo/6a00d4142fa2f4685e00f48ceb8fd70002.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00d4142fa2f4685e00f48ceb8fd70002-50si" alt="Poetry slam photo 3" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> "If only kids could vote then Mugabe would have been really beaten", says my partner's 11 year old child. "They should let us vote because there are more kids than adults. All my friends at schools want MDC to win", she continues. Asked why her... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/if-only-kids-could-vote.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4142fa2f4685e00e398ed33190005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/run-off.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Comrade Fatso) http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/run-off.html?_c=feed-rss http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/run-off.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:41:41 +0200 The only run off we want is for Mugabe to run off. Is this an election or an erection because everything seems to be standing still? These are the words on Harare's lips and in its text messages. Our joy is agony. So close but yet so far. We are t... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://comradefatso.vox.com/library/post/run-off.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d4142fa2f4685e00f48d0a05060001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p>