Friday, 29 April 2011

公部門真實笑話一則

話說對女性不尊重,也不知道性騷擾和展現男性魅力差別何在的老粗,某辦公室裡正好有一位。這位長相還過得去的老粗,經常性騷擾女同仁,於是黑函到了政風那裡。

雖然是黑函 (黑函就是不具名的信,公部門的文化,敢具名的少之又少),但是代表正義之聲的政風還是展開調查。調查的方法是找來同個辦公室裡,三位五、六十歲、屬性為「雌性動物」者問話 (這是我從偶像劇的台詞學來的:「她不算是女人,頂多是個雌性動物」)。三位雌性動物都表示,沒有被老粗性騷擾的經驗。

政風以以下結論結案:經查,老粗並沒有性騷擾女性同仁。

Tuesday, 26 April 2011

Face off: Al Pacino and Robert De Niro of museums at LSE: The Museum of the 21st Century





"We no longer live in world of simple national identities. That is the key civic question the whole world has to address."
"It is a very elegant way of saying they [Elgin Marbles] are not going back to Greece."
"Yes, if that's the way you want to put it"

Informative and amusing. This will be among my teaching materials.  Would anyone like to sponsor the translation project?

Thursday, 21 April 2011

Objects, objects and objects

The quintssential difference between museums and other exhibition space lies in the presence of objects in museums.

Although museum activities are now changed to be "visitor-centred", or 'visitor-oriented', while this change does/shall not affect the above difference.

Monday, 18 April 2011

The turn of museums: a democratic space

Only when museums are a democratic space, can different voices be heard.
How do museums turn themselves to be a democratic space-- assuming that most of them are not?

談話性節目之真人真事和假人假事

話說這幾天的談話性節目在討論某個受歡迎的連續劇劇情結尾。

談話性節目習慣性地講真人真事之八卦,已經是無聊。
(然而,忙碌的一天結束後,無聊實在無可厚非。)

談話性節目討論劇情,也就是討論假人假事的八卦,那就是無聊至極。
(可笑吧! 這不是我講的)

「忠實地反映社會現實」以及「墮落」,你會怎麼選?

Thursday, 14 April 2011

PG13之「血滴子」

如果很早很早以前有電影電視分級制,那麼關於「血滴子」的那個跟東廠太監有關的連續劇,絕對要放在PG13輔導級,而且不可以放在八點檔。

「族繁不及備載」

一、兩年前看到一本書的前言,作者說自己要感謝的人太多,因此接著寫「族繁不及備載」。

Tuesday, 12 April 2011

城市博物館在台中?

美國總統喜歡以蓋圖書館留名。
法國總統喜歡以蓋博物館留名。


據說台中市要蓋城市博物館了!
地方文化館後來裝蚊子。
城市博物館應該會很大很大很大很大,有國際競圖的那種。
那麼城市博物館後來要裝甚麼 ?
Politicians, will you stop building museums?

Wednesday, 6 April 2011

Oh, "master"!

前幾天聽了一個四十一歲的英國建築「大師」的演講。There is no problem that this architect is highly talented. However, why do we call him "master"?  Is it because otherwise there won't be 4,000 people turning up there?

Feminists and Marxists

Feminists 比較難跟non-Feminists對話,於是Feminists跟Feminists自己對話。
Marxists 比較難跟non-Marxists對話,於是Marxists跟Marxists自己對話。