tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49355601107877432682024-02-19T08:48:55.532-02:00NEW VENICE NEWS“Icebreaking the News since 1927 A.B”John Blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10797851808613327540noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935560110787743268.post-71754611600020764602012-10-30T05:13:00.002-03:002012-10-30T05:14:30.103-03:00HAIL, HAIL TO THE CROWD !
It is not true, dear readers, that the current administration has little concern for our safety and well-being. In a city depending on so many greenhouses and glass gardens for its food supply, hailstones have always been dangerous and possibly fatal inconvenience - a danger so far largely indifferent to the ringing of church bells, as the custom is in such situations.
This is why John Blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10797851808613327540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935560110787743268.post-66588163434845066332012-10-27T06:54:00.000-02:002012-10-27T07:18:03.871-02:00OMINOUS CHAOS
Barents Boulevard has been in turmoil last tuesday when a riot broke out in front of the Black Pages Bookstore.
It had all started with a rumour that Luminous Chaos, a sequel to the local “cult hit ” and notorious roman à clef Aurorarama, was a about to be released on October, 23rd, a perfect timing before the long stretch of “Wintering Weeks” that looms ahead of us. The John Blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10797851808613327540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935560110787743268.post-36221075049253840382012-05-02T13:43:00.000-02:002012-05-02T13:43:37.955-02:00AURORARAMAMANIA
Dear reader- if you are still, as we are, a bit grumpy about the election of the new regent-Doge, why not try and change your mind with the “dreampunk” cult-hit Aurorarama - the (largely fictitious but tolerably entertaining) story of last year's coup that dethroned the Council of Seven and brought us our Dauphin-Doges Reginald and Geraldine Elphinstone ? Although it was only John Blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10797851808613327540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935560110787743268.post-76543950541802115742012-04-19T06:42:00.005-02:002012-04-19T07:00:33.625-02:00AND THE WINNER IS...It is done, reader. The black and white balls of the “Unforeseen Forty-Ones” have been counted and recounted, and the winner is:
Peterswarden: the man behind the mitts
Yes, reader- Dr. Ole Peterswarden, the 51 years-old polar explorer and former Dean-Director of the Academy for Arctic Anthropology. Some may still remember him as a close councillor of the Council of the Seven with a direct John Blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10797851808613327540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935560110787743268.post-91344857769122685432012-04-14T05:17:00.003-02:002012-04-14T05:20:55.380-02:00PAPERBACK TIGER
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It is not for us to say whether it is a coincidence, but the announced John Blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10797851808613327540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935560110787743268.post-22224591882483125072012-04-12T10:32:00.001-02:002012-04-12T11:23:23.388-02:00TIPPING THE POLL
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p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: John Blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10797851808613327540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935560110787743268.post-47734237084043420272011-01-11T07:26:00.005-03:002011-01-11T07:34:51.390-03:00TURBINE SLED NEW TREND IN TRANSPORTATION ? The Coanda Sled: New Trand in Transportation or... hot air?
Unrivaled sensations of this year's Council of Custom and Commerce Machines & Motors Market in Machinery Hall, the new turbine-powered sleds by Coanda seem bound to become all the rage in ground transportation. If it is doubtful that they are going to replace the propelled sled used by Subtle Army and the Jitneys Taxsleighs of John Blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10797851808613327540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935560110787743268.post-83207268242797830662011-01-11T06:45:00.002-03:002012-04-19T06:49:21.132-02:00HAPPY NEW YEAR 1907 Happy New Year 1907 After Backwards to our readers.
All due apologies from the staff at New Venice News. It has been a while since our last communiqué: a dark, cold, snowy while plagued with technical problems, that the endless collective hangover from New Year's Eve did not exactly helped to be solved in due time.
We are back in business, sort of.
The mushroom is a nice touch, we think. John Blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10797851808613327540noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935560110787743268.post-74352231278628809542010-11-25T09:25:00.016-03:002010-11-25T09:41:24.931-03:00FRESH PAINTUnderlined in everyone's agenda tonight is the grand opening of the Elphinstone Exhibition at the Arctic Academy Of Arts. Paintings and Engravings by the two Elphinstones, Samuel and his son Ebenezer, will be displayed there until January, 21, 1907 AB. Especially awaited is the original of the famous “Elphinstone map”, etched by Samuel in 1907 BB, and which has been kindly lent John Blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10797851808613327540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935560110787743268.post-1140073421627835922010-11-18T10:42:00.012-03:002010-11-19T11:34:54.454-03:00THE CITY OF DREARY NIGHT
As our perspicacious reader had doubtlessly noticed, we are finishing our first week without any solar light, and there is, to this day, still 94 days to go before our favorite star pops up again from its hibernation. And like every year, there is a debate about the "Black hours" during which electric and gas lights should be turned down.As usual, the Arctic Administration leans towards&John Blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10797851808613327540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935560110787743268.post-6412522975624132522010-11-17T07:32:00.012-03:002010-11-17T10:36:04.317-03:00ICE CASTLE HAUNTED?
At last... although scheduled to be finished on November 1, it took fifteen days more for this year's Ice palace to be open to the public. Security reasons were alleged, but rumors have it that reports of ghost sightings by the building workers are the real cause behind the delay. Little has transpired as to what the sightings were (“probably the bottom of a gin bottle” as a John Blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10797851808613327540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935560110787743268.post-37093111810641400772010-11-12T08:28:00.003-03:002010-11-17T07:38:05.477-03:00A POLL AT THE POLEWe have been waiting for it, but after long negotiations, the Regent-Doge and the Council of the Seven Sectors have finally agreed on the rules regarding the election of the next Regent-Doge, which is scheduled for next spring.
Heavily inspired by ye olde Venetian constitution, the rules are meant to ensure that no amount of manipulation, bribe, or cheating could affect the outcome of the John Blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10797851808613327540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935560110787743268.post-73674211383065083362010-11-12T06:40:00.021-03:002010-11-12T07:00:05.642-03:00ICEFIELD FOLLIES
This strange picture of a woman dancing on the snow has been taken from one of our new electricity-harvesting balloons, not very far from the Flagler Fjord Inuit settlement.
One more case of Oene sighting ? It seems to us that this dancer bears more than a passing ressemblance with former dancer and polar pop star Sybil Springfield, once the eye-catching, ear-shattering leader of the John Blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10797851808613327540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935560110787743268.post-87665670749339386162010-11-03T13:48:00.002-03:002010-11-03T13:56:58.277-03:00THE ENIGMARCTIC QUEENThis strange photographic image below, taken last week-end near the Black Cliffs by an amateur excursionist who wishes to remain anonymous, reached our office with the following commentary: “ It is probably Oene, the fabled fallen ‘Queen of the Arctic’ who is said to mislead travellers.”
Miss Leading, in the flesh
Perhaps it is her, Dear Mr. Anon, although we can but wonder what the pole John Blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10797851808613327540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935560110787743268.post-68882379794571471132010-10-29T14:13:00.001-02:002010-11-03T14:00:59.745-03:00DANGEROUS TRAILS
Is there no end to this Aurorarama ballyhoo? Following the last trend in advertisement, someone made this book trailer for the U.S market. What will they do next ? A phantascopic adaptation ? Meanwhile, the rumours that this romance originated in the inner circle of the Regent-Doge, as a ploy to break our political isolation are getting somewhat louder, although it looks like more like an John Blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10797851808613327540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935560110787743268.post-67386056818592069842010-10-27T11:40:00.007-02:002010-11-03T13:58:46.447-03:00MOST SERENE SERENADETowering figures of the local Adlivun (or “underground”) Scene, Kelvin Budd-Jones and Bob "Cape" Dorset have teamed once again to offer you "Song for New Venice", an electromagnetic anthem that is both patriotic and melancholy (as befits our paradoxical patriotism - exiled as we are in our own distant land.)
Signed on Piqsiporq recordings, it should be released as both a celluloid cylinderJohn Blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10797851808613327540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4935560110787743268.post-1783651803966967762010-10-27T10:17:00.009-02:002010-11-03T13:58:00.170-03:00PHONEY COLE'S AURORAPHONE
This was bound to happen.
Given the amazing success of Aurorarama, the wildly inaccurate chronicle of our recent “poletical” turmoil written by a certain Jean-Christophe Valtat — every New Venice News reader knows who hides behind this transparent pen name—, it was only a matter of time before various subarctic penspushers, with moral standards as low as their latitude, flood the market withJohn Blankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10797851808613327540noreply@blogger.com0