tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47924572299188568852024-03-12T21:13:03.385-04:00Also Sprach ZamolxisAşa Grăit-a Zamo.ca, the descendant of a Dacian God; teme personale, culturale şi sociale din Toronto. Patria mé îi limba romgleză. Formerly AlsoSprachZamolxis.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger223125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-8510411134663076312021-04-28T01:00:00.007-04:002021-04-28T01:00:00.307-04:00Octopus vs nanaUtolo<span id="description">There was a recent showdown in <a title="Oscars 2021 summary" href="http://t.zamo.ca/2021/04/oscars-2021.html" target="_blank">Oscars</a> documentaries between <a title="Collective - Official Trailer | Oct 6, 2020 | 289905 - In 2015, a fire at Bucharest’s Colectiv club leaves 27 dead and 180 injured. Soon, more burn victims begin dying in hospitals from wounds that were not life-threatening. Then a doctor blows the whistle to a team of investigative journalists. One revelation leads to another as the journalists start to uncover vast health care fraud. When a new health minister is appointed, he offers unprecedented access to his efforts to reform the corrupt system but also to the obstacles he faces. Following journalists, whistle-blowers, burn victims, and government officials, Collective is an uncompromising look at the impact of investigative journalism at its best." href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLgGoT7v3ro" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Colectiv</a> and <a title="My Octopus Teacher | Official Trailer | Netflix | Sep 6, 2020 | 2360655 | A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world." href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s0LTDhqe5A" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My Octopus Teacher</a>. I rooted for Collective and it reminded me of a long running Italian TV series from my childhood, <a title="La Piovra - Caracatita - Seria 1, Ep. 1 | Musique My Love | Jul 12, 2019 | Povestea lui Corrado Cattani, un inspector de poliție ce și-a dedicat viața luptei împotriva mafiei. Chiar și când familia și viața îi sunt grav puse în pericol de criminalii italieni, Corrado îndrăznește să continue lupta." href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWsDehkaQvw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">La Piovra</a>. Caracatita a castigat si traducerea in romana pe <a title="Documentarul Colectiv a pierdut in fata Caracatitei" href="https://www.facebook.com/zamolxis/photos/a.10156220292282011/10157984286162011/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FataCarte</a>.</span><a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2021/04/octopus-vs-nanautolo.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-31755671887990443672020-01-29T01:00:00.000-05:002020-01-29T18:43:22.605-05:001989 + 30 = documentaries<span id="description">A few weeks ago we celebrated 30 years (<a title="Grosse Pointe Blank clip: 10 years, man! 10 YEARS! Where have you been?" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21LRjYrWzK0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">10x3 years, man!</a>). A lot of documentaries and retrospectives and I hardly kept up with them. But I did watch a few and learned (or refreshed my memory with) facts I either did not know or had forgotten. I will first list, and then, time-permitting, summarize them.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2020/01/30-de-ani-tv.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-71489245437475828472019-11-25T16:00:00.005-05:002019-11-25T17:51:42.257-05:00Viorica Dancila. A Love Story.<span id="description">There is open season on Viorica Dancila, the losing presidential candidate from PSD and former prime-minister of Romania. Today, Monday, she has even renounced the leadership of Socialist PSD, until not long ago the main Romanian party. For a contrarian such as myself, this is the perfect moment to announce my undying love for this misunderstood and not very presentable "prezidentiable".</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2019/11/viorica-dancila-love-story.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-88657135433240426392019-10-28T01:00:00.001-04:002019-10-28T01:00:05.083-04:00Repatriated Romanian from USA at Hotnews<span id="description">Hotnews has previously interviewed Romanian diaspora people, which we covered, and we have also been profiling others in the diaspora ourselves. This interview is somewhat new in that the interviewee is "returned" - and we expect to be many more like him in the coming years.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2019/10/new-romanian-in-north-america-at-hotnews.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-28487689390993675792019-06-02T01:00:00.008-04:002019-07-03T11:09:23.778-04:00Gaudeamus, fraticule? Shall we celebrate?<span id="description">In the past few days, most of the Romanians I know received two important gifts: PSD didn’t win the elections and Dragnea, its [widely considered] corrupt boss, was sentenced to jail and went there shortly thereafter. Though I’m not a Dragnea/PSD fan, I find the celebrations a bit empty. What bugs me is that <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2019/05/raspunsuri-recomandare.html">only one candidate</a> answered <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2019/05/intrebari-questions-eurocandidates-2019.html">my questions</a> re: <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2019/05/alegeri-mep-2019.html">#EP2019</a>, and I fear that the vast majority of voters never tried to clarify the programme of the candidates they voted for, nor have they tried to interact with them. Let's try to find reasons<a title="fragment of facebook convo" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpdb4cCLvTRBPvIr4yxIvKAHLfko1JpgkMeyK3AC-L76Fpl69KX6G36d4LI_9Z32L7kCA4v42bIswSr5yUhKtT7larPYtNd5HEMmuNEfMoC0n67sbVKiGEmVUogyMUtE_6s1yMDMeTqAI/s1600/fb-adv.JPG">.</a></span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2019/05/gaudeamus-fraticule-shall-we-celebrate_31.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-9042669617554353292019-06-01T01:00:00.001-04:002019-06-07T15:43:07.005-04:00Top Romanian Parties PNL USR PSD; Partisanship, again<span id="description">I try to make sense of who voted for whom in this election, and especially who voted for PNL. Surprisingly for me, PNL managed to attract a majority of women / rural / “unoccupied” voters.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2019/06/romanian-main-political-parties-pnl-usr.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-83042015687331898562019-05-16T01:00:00.010-04:002019-06-07T15:22:24.746-04:00Raspunsuri/Answers: Cornel G. Comsa, PSDi<span id="description">Cu exceptia introducerii, acest articol este in limba romana. As promised, I publish the answers received to <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2019/05/intrebari-questions-eurocandidates-2019.html">the questions posed</a> over the past few days with the deadline set on May 15. We did not specify a time for the deadline and as we write this article, it is possible that someone else may be sending us a reply. If that’s the case, comment on this article to let us know.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2019/05/raspunsuri-recomandare.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-70844514747171399002019-04-11T17:14:00.000-04:002019-04-12T17:28:42.092-04:00Olivia Steer or Olive Stere? Is anti-vaxx vax?<span id="description">So many scandals in Romania, so little time. It's hard to decide what to write about. I can't read Romanian news - everything is clickbait and when I try reading something, I invariably find grammar, spelling or logic (or all of the above) mistakes. I choose to write about a "scandal" that happened toward the end of March, because none of the opinions I've read explain what's going on to my level of perception.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2019/04/olivia-steer-or-olive-stere.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-82683125337452758392017-03-12T01:00:00.003-05:002017-03-12T01:00:02.874-05:00Is suburbia village or countryside?<span id="description">One thing about population in Romania that we can all agree on is that it is in <a title="Durerea Adevarului in Engrish" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2008/07/durerea-adevarului-in-engrish.html">free fall</a>. A recent article has revealed to me that, supposedly, the number of Romanians moving out of the city and into the country side is greater than the number of Romanians moving into the city.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2017/03/is-suburbia-village-or-countryside.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-19470172428353798832017-02-10T10:28:00.000-05:002017-02-10T12:14:35.137-05:00#rezist in its 10th day<span id="description">Romania seems <a title="Malversation in Romania" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipuC38g4RQo" target="_blank">increasingly divided</a> between the “<a title="Sustinatorii PSD - contramanifestatii la Cotroceni vor demisia lui Klaus Iohannis" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Vai3LuJTE" target="_blank">bad teeth alliance</a>”, pro-government and protesting against the president Iohannis, and a massive, more numerous, <a title="Romanian protesters dance as demonstrations enter their sixth day" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIDZ_ZXaIR4" target="_blank">happily protesting dancing flash mob</a> who won’t take “<a title="AUDIO. Dragnea pentru presa străină, despre corupție: 'Bullshit'" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rUVZdzNlMw" target="_blank">corruption is bullshit</a>” for an answer. What irks me is that in the international media coverage, so much is lost in translation.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2017/02/rezist-in-its-10th-day.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-23805065520634445762017-01-31T01:00:00.003-05:002017-01-31T15:23:05.425-05:00Badisms and PSDisms<span id="description">Romania is once again going through some convulsive protests and it's fun checking out how they are seen on the dark side. I started with Mircea Badea, about whom I’ve written extensively in the past (<a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2011/01/mircea-badea-glenn-beck-ul-romaniei-13.html">Romania’s Glenn Beck</a>, <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2011/02/mircea-badea-cenzurat-de-cna.html">censured</a>).</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2017/01/badisms-and-psdisms.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-27856395989608436622017-01-07T17:00:00.002-05:002017-01-07T22:14:15.046-05:00Celebratory Year-End Summaries<span id="description">I am beginning to see the limits of my enforced-positivity in terms of absorbing and interpreting the current political events. Yet the political situation in Romania is remarkably similar to what’s happening in USA.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2017/01/celebratory-year-end-summaries.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-69778545712952367982016-12-23T01:00:00.001-05:002017-02-02T14:21:13.548-05:00How To Immigrate To Canada III<span id="description">Whenever I talk to Romanians who want to <a title="How To Immigrate To Canada I" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2016/12/immigration-revisited.html" rel="first">come to Canada</a> and I answer questions, I always end up being a bit upset. I find that people ask me too many simple questions they could answer themselves with Google and too few of the “important” questions. Maybe there’s a guru hiding inside of me, and here’s where I set him free.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2016/12/how-to-immigrate-to-canada-iii.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-57892605083356318972016-11-04T01:00:00.011-04:002016-11-04T15:06:58.464-04:00Sever Iosif Georgescu sur le strasse<span id="description">About two months ago, Maftei, my math teacher in high school, has passed away (fb-maftei). I felt sorry, and that’s why the expression he used to invite us to the blackboard (“iesi pe straße” or “come out on the straße/street”) found its way in the title of this article, which is about the high-school physics teacher Sever Iosif Georgescu and his (or his kids’?) attempts to erase the negative events of his past. This is the third installment in the Georgescu, Iosif SEVER saga:</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2016/11/sever-iosif-georgescu-sur-le-strasse.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>Indelible Bonobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14884595505459463870noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-34849693792064030732015-04-09T01:00:00.000-04:002015-05-01T10:55:00.309-04:00In Uterus Envy, Ilie Nasty Nastase<span id="description">Some recent Romanian news led me to consider the possibility that many Romanian men suffer from an undiagnosed affliction: Uterus envy. Let us together discover what that means, and how this was already named “womb envy” by a psychoanalyst named HORNEY.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2015/04/in-uterus-envy-ilie-nasty-nastase.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-10388289981669186742015-04-01T01:00:00.000-04:002015-04-02T16:56:10.776-04:00The Knight with a Fat Wallet<span id="description">There was a time when women were dreaming of a “knight in shining armour” but a steady decline in the prestige of shiny things coupled with a long set of economic crises have put an end to those romantic times. Today women seem to want a man who’ll pay and they rely on the State for protection and Facebook and/or Twitter for <abbr title="Do It Yourself" style="border-bottom: navy 1px dotted">DIY</abbr> reputation management (aka PR). A recent article on dating and paying for it (ctch-tspr) reopened a long-forgotten subject, a subject I haven't attacked in a while (since <a title="intre 12 si 12-B" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2012/05/between-12-and-12-b.html">between 12 and 12-B</a>, to be exact), despite a desire and even a plan to do so.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2015/04/the-knight-with-fat-wallet.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-7467427154051693692015-03-30T01:13:00.001-04:002015-03-30T10:12:08.533-04:00Treating Alexic Danopathy with NatGeo and linguistsAfter <a title="Dan Alexe vs Dacopaths" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/09/dan-alexe-vs-dacopaths.html" rel="first">introducing</a> the reader to a <a title="YouTube Video (opens to the right if you are on the main site): DOCUMENTAR Petre Țuțea: 'Români, nu vă mai alegeți conducători care nu-şi iubesc ţara!' - by Adevarul - 4 months ago - 5993 views" href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wEoeYItS7M4?autoplay=1&modestbranding=1&nologo=1&showinfo=0&rel=0&iv_load_policy=3" rel="ytvid" target="tutub">Tutea</a>-like blogger (but without the mandibular shaking, and as a blogger, he writes rather than talks), today I was going to continue the cycle of Alexic Danopathy, as promised. Recently, <a title="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/trajan-column/index.html" href="http://zamoca.tumblr.com/post/100685133842/this-page-continues-the-photo-documentation-from" target="_blank">National Geographic has written at length about Trajan’s Column</a> (<a title="This page continues the photo documentation from the Column of Trajan, beginning with the Second Dacian War and ending with the final sequence of reliefs at the top of the Column." href="http://zamoca.tumblr.com/post/100685133842/this-page-continues-the-photo-documentation-from" target="_blank">research</a> first covered a few months ago), and surprisingly, Alexic Danopathy “scholarship” and research is nowhere to be found there. There’s more to be said, but I got sidetracked by his conversation with someone he calls Tartina Lol (caba-tl). <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2015/03/treating-alexic-danopathy-with-natgeo.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-9407119277594293652015-03-15T01:00:00.000-04:002015-03-15T20:40:14.626-04:00History Repeats Its Beach<span id="description">My life has more and more strange, scary coincidences. Sure, some are part of the all-encompassing confirmation bias, but some are just out there. Maybe in my search for meaning I get too hung up on serendipitous occurrences, or maybe I'm turning into the bimbo cliché of RomComs who thinks that "everything happens for.. increased productivity". And no, it’s not <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2009/03/in-search-of-july.html">this beach</a>.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2015/03/history-repeats-its-beach.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com45tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-1529699398684771732015-03-10T01:00:00.000-04:002015-03-15T17:08:23.055-04:00Corruption and Cur-rupt-ion<span id="description">A recent Op-Ed in New York Times seems to have caused a fair amount of consternation in both Romania as well as among my diaspora friends. Ion could equally be <a title="Iliescu, banii si ouale I" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2008/12/iliescu-banii-si-ouale.html">Ion Iliescu</a>, recently green-lighted to be re-investigated in the “<a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2008/05/stiri-canadromane.html">Mineriada</a>” file, Adrian Nastase, the <a title="suicide option" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2012/06/optiunea-suicid.html">suicidal</a> <a title="the political suicide of Mr Adrian Nastase" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2012/06/sinuciderea-politica-d-lui-adrian.html">former premier</a> and failed presidential candidate who had become <a title="VS II: Nastase-Ponta-Bradisteanu-Rus" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2012/06/vs-ii-nastase-ponta-bradisteanu-rus.html#more">the first test case of prosecutorial overreach in the case of an elite aparatchik</a>, or even Patrick Basham, not afraid to confront the warm, fuzzy racism/scepticism/antiziganism-fuelled consensus that Romania is “doing something”.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2015/03/corruption-and-cur-rupt-ion.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-54154941723896690372015-03-07T07:13:00.001-05:002015-03-08T15:56:34.222-04:00Religion and Choice<span id="description">There are two subjects that seem to dominate the Romanian public sphere (I would say <a title="search all articles for the tag 'blogo.ro-oaie'" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/search?q=blogo.ro-oaie">blogo.ro-oaie</a>, but that's defunct): the religion choice in schools and the New York Times Op-Ed on corruption in Romania. I’m very tempted to make a nice hot stew out of both, but I’ll try to keep each to its own article.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2015/03/religion-and-choice.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-35455977780248730762015-02-20T16:36:00.001-05:002015-03-06T12:44:28.959-05:00Blegoo strikes (debates?) again<span id="description">Blegoo, <a title="a question of lust" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2011/11/question-of-lust.html">previously profiled</a> and <a title="poverty and IQ in BlegooVision" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2014/12/poverty-and-iq-in-blegoovision.html">published here</a>, took some time off from <a title="Canada si Lopatirea (snow shovelling in Canada)" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2009/02/canada-si-lopatirea.html">shovelling</a> to write an article for this blog, as a guest. I’m publishing it here as <a title="YouTube Video (opens to the right if you are on the main site): Kramer - when you smile" href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-xU81C1JV_E?autoplay=1&modestbranding=1&nologo=1&showinfo=0&rel=0&iv_load_policy=3" rel="ytvid" target="tutub">encouragement</a> (<a title="YouTube Video (opens to the right if you are on the main site): Dentist - adults only episode" href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BveKDWXqyRU?autoplay=1&modestbranding=1&nologo=1&showinfo=0&rel=0&iv_load_policy=3" rel="ytvid" target="tutub">longer version</a>), with the spelling mistakes left uncorrected but listed at the end, and also detailing there the formatting work I (still) had to do.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2015/02/blegoo-strikes-debates-again.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-82907839883194955242014-12-21T01:00:00.000-05:002014-12-22T13:33:44.925-05:00Romanian Beggars Invade Sweden<span id="description">The stuff I haven't told you yet about Anaughtia (see previous and still unfinished, at this time, article) is on my mind, fighting its way into a sequel. But it will be a while. There are other stories for other blogs that also searching for a way out of my head. Until then, a somewhat easier subject, on <a title="Memories of Sweden" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2013/03/memories-of-sweden.html">Sweden</a>. </span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2014/12/romanian-beggars-invade-sweden.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-27681505054669703222014-12-02T01:00:00.000-05:002014-12-07T18:07:33.110-05:00Poverty and IQ in BlegooVision<span id="description">I recently got an article from our very own <a title="On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." href="http://www.blegoo.com" rel="author" target="_blank">Blegoo</a>, who wanted to see his thoughts published and critiqued around here. It required serious formatting, but I thought it’s a free service I can provide to the second highest commenter (in terms of quantity) on this blog. My comments will be <font style="background-color: #ffff00">highlighted inline</font> and concentrated at the end.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2014/12/poverty-and-iq-in-blegoovision.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-74819963058353875622014-12-01T02:00:00.000-05:002014-12-08T01:38:20.671-05:00Patriotards on Romania’s Day<span id="description">I don’t like to adopt a nationalist stance on any day of the year and least of all when you are supposed to do so, such as on December 1, Romania’s national day. Rather than pen yet another pointless, devoid of meaning nationalist article, I’d much rather look at a few forgotten issues.</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2014/12/patriotards-on-romanias-day.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4792457229918856885.post-28904191566352673992014-11-28T01:00:00.000-05:002014-11-29T18:29:40.327-05:00Merry Tuborg Christmas!<span id="description">Christmas is a time of forced happiness, unmet expectations - i.e., looking forward to spend some time with your family, only to end up annoyed by the same things that caused you to <a href="http://asa.zamo.ca/2010/05/philip-larkin-catre-mircea-badea-fugi.html">move out as quickly as you could</a> if your parents are alive, or feeling unappreciated by those ungrateful earthlings if you are a parent yourself. No wonder so many of us have started to take the <a title="YouTube Video (opens to the right if you are on the main site): The Festivus" href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dS7-jcsB_WQ?autoplay=1&modestbranding=1&nologo=1&showinfo=0&rel=0&iv_load_policy=3" rel="ytvid" target="tutub">Festivus</a> joke seriously!</span> <a href="https://asa.zamo.ca/2014/11/merry-tuborg-christmas.html#more">Read mo' - Ceteşte (şî dă) mai diepartie »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a title="See how your ad could be here" href="http://asa.zamo.ca/p/faq.html" target="_blank"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-H7oTNjkqfaM/U-1W7j-JxdI/AAAAAAAAVw0/-NYo944-Q1I/s800/zamohold-ad.jpg" width="330" height="241" /></a></div>ZamoCahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02605654748084966894noreply@blogger.com70