Festschrift 2012

and then there was Kenneth.

12.03.2012
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We’d like to apologise if our list of MMV bloggers for the festschrift was not exhaustive. I’d originally stuck with 7 bloggers – like the years that had passed. Then some, like David and Alex ended up being added to the list, not as an afterthought mind you but purely out of their interest to [...]

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pierre j. mejlak – books & beans

11.03.2012
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I thought he wouldn’t make it. Then I got an SMS at four in the afternoon “Nibza li ha niddizappuntak habib. Qieghed imsiefer u l-isfiga kollha qed tinqala’. Forsi guest post mar-ritorn ghalkemm ma tkunx l-istess.” Then four hours later “Sibt internet!!! Gej tieghi! x”. By nine in the evening I had received Pierre’s piece. [...]

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ġakbu sfi*o – il-bollettino della sfi*a

10.03.2012
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We didn’t really invite this bloke he just submitted his stuff and we feel obliged to print it. If only for the sake of superstition. For a long time his blog was much, much more popular than J’accuse (and probably still is even though he’s gone AWOL for what seems to be an eternity). Il-Bollettino [...]

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fausto majistral – malta 9 thermidor

10.03.2012
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It took us a while to put our finger on what this majistral bloke was about. In 2005 we were convinced he was the mother (or father) of all PN apologists. It was not that though. It was an assiduous attention to detail. Thermidor was a formidable political observer with whom to cross swords. Then [...]

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alex vella gera – il-kriżi u kif tegħlibha

10.03.2012
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The name may now be associated with controversy, much to his chagrin, but when alex vella gera hit the blogosphere it was “erezija” (heresy). Weird, eccentric and for a very long time I thought it was too far-fetched to be real. You discover Alex when you learn to discover his reflections and observations. I’d say [...]

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toni sant – toni sant’s blog

10.03.2012
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Toni was probably bored of blogging by the time the first critical mass of bloggers had formed (or as Gybexi put it “feeeetħu blooog”). Toni turned slowly from detached blogger to a regular on the scene thanks to his “Muzika Mod Iehor” podcast that turned out to be much more of a regular occasion than [...]

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immanuel mifsud – il-blobb tas-sibt filghaxija

10.03.2012
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I only met Immanuel for the first time at the Frankfurt International Book Fair last year. Until then Immanuel was a series of labels – virtual and reported. Besides being an acclaimed author, Immanuel was also this reference point on the blogosphere – something like a Maltese version of the east European authors who I [...]

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david friggieri – lanzarote

10.03.2012
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Armed with quotes from Houellebecq and other wankellectuals, Friggieri stepped into the blogosfera in a desperate attempt at defining the Maltese psyche. The examiner became the studied as the inescapable traits of the fishpond mentality provided a whirlpool of unwelcome distractions. Lanzarote became a distant island – whether it was because the kitchen was too hot or [...]

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mark vella – xifer: il-blogg mit-truf

10.03.2012
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Lunchtime. And time for Mark Vella, the man who made the mistake of egging me on to start blogging. It’s ages ago now but we quickly settled around the big arguments and little commonalities. Could we illude ourselves that it was a thesis and an antithesis? What about all that discourse about chips and class [...]

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gybexi – inutile de degeler

10.03.2012
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The third “schrift” comes from our friend in Brussels whose nickname “gybexi” has a nickname of its own: Kurat van Buitengaats. He was the first among the invitees to call my bluff about the “festschrift in honour of”. Delusions of grandeur he called it. Of course he is right. J’accuse is neither some great academic [...]

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