Sunday Sundry
Posted in General, On This Day on August 28th, 2011 by Eugene Finerman – 4 CommentsOh for the good old days, when megalomaniac tyrants had a sense of style. Who wouldn’t want to be under Mussolini’s thumb, knowing those brass knuckles were from Bulgari! And Saddam Hussein’s palaces were obvious homages to MGM classics; at least one of his wives had to be Norma Shearer. But Muammar Qaddafi evidently shops at Target. Perusing the architecture and decor of his homes, the New York Times was dismayed by his tackiness.
Given Colonel Qaddafi’s noted flamboyance, the residences of the House of Qaddafi were not quite as grand as people might have supposed.
They lacked the faux grandeur of Saddam Hussein’s marbled palaces. There are no columns that bear the colonel’s initials, or fists cast to resemble his hands or river-fed moats with voracious carp.
His overt support of terrorism apparently is not so abhorent as his interior decorating. The man’s style is “Seventies”. His epauletted wardrobe may have been “Sergeant Pepper” but his living room was “The Wonder Years.” Qaddafi probably had kept plastic covers on his nuclear reactors.
The New York Times is so disappointed in him.
This Week in History:
August 28: https://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2009/08/28/a-fool-and-his-empire/
August 29: https://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2009/08/29/cheeri-opium-2/
August 30: https://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2010/08/30/fanny-get-your-gun/
August 31: https://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2009/08/31/in-praise-of-impotence-2/
September 1: https://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2009/09/01/2529/
September 2: https://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2009/09/02/the-regicide-regatta/
September 3: https://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2009/09/03/quite-original-sin/