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Doing Europe: Prague, Czech Republic
What? No more bloodletting? Detente with Frajer Dynomite Williams? Very disappointing. I need a new hobby. This seems apt right about now: "The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."—- Frank Zappa. Peace to all the Czechs, Laotians, Koreans, and most of all Swedes caught up in the struggle against Frajer. Keep your head up, exploited. And keep your azz off the slivovitz. Jan— July 3, 2010 8 a.m.
Doing Europe: Prague, Czech Republic
Wow! Looks like the globetrotting Frajer has a cretinous alter ego named "dynomite." So original. What ego-driven ethically fraudulent "rational" arguments his Frajer persona limply attempted to construct, his pathetic Jimmy Walker-wannabe id tries to piggyback on with pathetic pseudo-psychological self-help bon mots. Dynomite Frajer Williams, or whatever you are, publish something and then talk. A bad masturbatory review from a flaccid putz like you, "dynomite," would just make me feel stronger and give me confidence to know that I'm on the right path as an up-and-coming young writer. Go to a politically motivated web site and argue for the treasonous military acts that have given you a free pass to travel the world as a delusional liberator. Leave behind the pooh-poohing of people who actually want to have a good time in life. Just because the only way you can get laid in a foreign country is to exploit your military costume shouldn't be Mr. Veseskis's problem. Don't explode your inhibited internalized repression onto others you subconsciously deem more unshackled by social hangups. Phony, fraud, fake onanist. Keep playing yourself, both literally and metaphorically.— June 30, 2010 10:57 a.m.
Doing Europe: Prague, Czech Republic
Cuddlefish, you are absolutely right. However, the Reader has a kiosk outside my office. To pass the time during breaks, I occasionally flip through this rag. But Mr. Veseskis's breezy and life-affirming travel memoirs caught my eye. I began to pay attention because he either wrote about places I have wandered through or spent a great deal of time in. I could feel his enthusiasm for these locales. However, when stumbling upon these comments online from Mr. Williams, I was perplexed dismayed. Why would anyone bother to shoot down a non-offensive fun travel piece tucked in the corners of a local alt mag? We all have our opinions. But what bothered me were the immediate PERSONAL attacks leveled against an aspiring local writer, from his writing style to his traveling agenda. It's easy to lob extraneous and inflammatory remarks from a half a world away. This "Frajer" fraud describes himself as someone who is "against oppression, and in favor of freedom." Yet what was an ex-Naval low-level paper pushing apparachnik doing in obvious places of military covert operations like Laos (for over a year!) and Korea? Next thing you know, he'll pop up in East Timor or Nicaragua. Something's fishy about this military tool/lawyer who takes an inordinate amount of time to shoot down a lighthearted travel journal. Support local writers!— June 29, 2010 2:03 p.m.
Doing Europe: Prague, Czech Republic
Oh, now it's become so clear, comrade Frajer. You are one of those willfully naive Americans who believe in peace through war. Through your feigned love of the oppressed, you are complicit in the growth of American militarism and the garrisoning of the planet. Not just the Czech Republic... Laos, Korea, Sweden, and so on and so on. A real mujahadeen for the supposed good guys. You are just a little distant cog in our dependence on a permanent war economy, pillaging cultures in the name of self-betterment. You have become the perfect embodiment of the American military credo of deception: a huge discrepancy between what America professes to be and what you actually are. Your ignorant empire building indoctrination will slowly matriculate, and the blinders will be pulled from your eyes. So keep building your over 700 covert miltary bases in every world outpost while fooling yourself into believing you're an open-minded American using the world as your personal buffet. All on the taxpayer's buck. Keep fooling yourself into believing that your violence-sponsored military controlled global exploit is really just traipsing the world to find the essence of "Fred Williams." Your bought-and-sold, partner. Your simpleton arrogance is beyond trasparent. So go back to your well-pronounced consumption while forcefully projecting your military hegemony. Like I said, you're the hypcrite, not the students who innocently are exploring.— June 29, 2010 10:45 a.m.
Doing Europe: Prague, Czech Republic
Fred Williams... an obvious true-blooded Bohemian surname, no doubt. Trolling an SD paper from a continent away. Thinks he's somehow more "authentic" because he's better versed at the superficial trivialities of gluttony and slang. At least the article's writer went to Prague when it took some adventurous ingenuity to navigate the newly opened society. Given the power of the dollar at the time, it was also affordable for students and those of humble means. With the Czech Republic's 25% economic growth in the last three years, only the bourgeois have the means to go to recently sanitized Prague. Your tsk-tsking cultural fascism makes you appear like an elitist snob. Are you a scholar of Vaclav Havel or Kafka? Were you on the front lines of the Prague Spring uprising? Did you witness the Velvet Revolution somewhere other than on your wide-screen TV? Or are you just there to shop like any other post-colonial tourist? Your soliloquy reeks of typical ugly Americanism. Except you're worse. You believe your own lies about your delusional counterfeit refinement. So condescendingly go back to slurping your slivovitz and engorging yourself with dumplings while using globalized Telefonica internet service to self-indulgently boost your own consumerist ego. Hypocrite. Jan Golka— June 28, 2010 10:29 a.m.