Ranil and Gay Posters
The political postering has started in earnest. I’ve been getting warm fuzzies from seeing Chandrika’s whiskey fueled smiling face and even the moribund UNP has a presence. In any self-respecting country there would be an election come November, but Sri Lanka is extra weird and the date is unknown. Still, the PR is at work, to various degrees of funny. This is the most ridiculous one I’ve seen yet – Ranil Wickremesinghe as Michael Jackson, surrounded by half-naked men. I won’t get into the issue of Ranil’s sexuality, but suffice it to say that this is is a personal dig. Timely, offensive, and tasteless. I await the poster of an inebriated Banadaranaike, being carried to bed by a bevy of attendants.
What confuses me is that I can’t tell the official posters from the parodies anymore. I thought that this one below was a joke for sure, cause Ranil looks like a child molestor. As headshots go, the one with baggy eyes and a smarmy moustache may not be the one to pick. Someone needs to distribute this ‘Photoshop’ to the political offices.
I started off not really liking General Sarath Fonseka, him being part of the aggressive war effort. I didn’t support the war (largely cause I thought it would fail), and I thought Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and Fonseka were gleefully stomping everything. Fonseka even came out and said “I strongly believe that this country belongs to the Sinhalese but there are minority communities and we treat them like our people,” in 2008 (
General Sarath Fonseka was arrested on a bunch of trumped up charges, but mainly for daring to threaten Mahinda in a Presidential election. Despite his poor health, Fonseka was arrested in February 2010 and sentence to three years. Word on the street now, however, is that he’ll be released soon. Like any day now. President Mahinda Rajapaksa has told 
I’ve been testing a lot of apps. A very interesting one is iPlayboy, from Playboy magazine. It’s bad porn but a good magazine, especially since you can read issues from its cultural heyday – the Mad Men era of the 60s.
I’m going to get back to blogging. I buy a shitload of stuff on my iPad. Not that I like spending money, and the exchange rate terrifies me, but it’s just so easy, and so good. For example, I’ve been reading comics again. Spiderman, and 
Yes the art of political postering seems to have been still born in our impoverished state. But in a country where “One Shot” (by all reports) seems to have broken box office records – go with whatever works. Taste never won anyone an election, sadly.
nice website jit.
glad to see you and your family are doing okay.
next time you are in ohio, we will have to ride our bikes somewhere besides the quarry. it is just a bunch of houses now.
“What confuses me is that I can’t tell the official posters from the parodies anymore” that was really funny and so true… Nice Blog