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After last week's UN meetings, the Obamas took a photos with José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and the Spanish Prime Minister's family. The daughters dressed like they were preparing for a night out with The Cure.
The Prime Minister has tried to keep his daughters out of the public eye. Despite convincing the state-owned Spanish news agency EFE not to distribute the photos, the images ended up on the front page of several Spanish newspapers.
These first daughters have potential to be the most notable Goths in Spain since the Visigoth conquest of the 7th century. The Goth subculture exists in Spain, as it does in much of the world. Goticos were featured in a 2006 episode of a Spanish news magazine.
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The Gothic family photos have prompted a Facebook group called Las hijas góticas de Zapatero. The group has over 14 thousand fans. And like all great newsworthy images, these pictures have prompted Photoshoppers worldwide to turn this into a meme.
There is the minimalist approach, by dressing the entire party in black, to signify their inner angst.
Then we have a more hardcore version of the Rodriguez Zapatero daughters leading the group in a Satanic sacrificial ritual. Note the US president's commitment to cultural diversity, by symbolically "raising the horns."
Meme-sters have quickly connected the Goths with cinema. In these examples we see references to The Ring, The Shining, Edward Scissorhands and The Exorcist.
The final image shows the entire clan celebrating the commercialism of contemporary Goth culture, alongside pro-heavy metal activists Los Hermanos Alcázar. The 41 year-old twins stand in front of the site of a former Madrid rock venue every night, to commemorate its legacy. They are avidly opposed to the commodification of rock n roll.
Spain has a bright future in darkness.
Learn how to Goth yourself.
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I use tumblr, to keep tapped into the pulse of the world's meme-o-sphere. I follow a lot of people in New York and Los Angeles. Somehow I follow lot's of Venezuelans. This is how I discovered the unrest in the online community over crackdowns on media by Hugo Chavez. It wasn't that funny so I forwarded that info on to Current's news man, Andrew Fitzgerald, who wrote a blog post about it.
Luckily this latest picture from the Venezuelan meme factory is funny.
This picture depicts the president of Venezuela being told to shut up by everyone's favorite interrupter-of-the-moment, Kanye West. This picture would evoke a laugh from any anti-Chavista. (I imagine Bill O'Reilly would love this picture, hates Hugo Chavez, and loves telling people to shut up.) But to the nuanced Latin meme-ster, this picture is a mashup of ideas.
It references an event from November 2007. At the Ibero-American summit, Hugo Chavez interrupted José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Spanish prime minister. Then Juan Carlos, King of Spain, leaned forward, turned towards Chávez, and said "¿Por qué no te callas?"
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This outburst was well received in sectors of Ibero-America, especially by those who feel that Chavismo is too radical. This video quickly became viral, and prompted several notable versions. (My favorite one is the Reggaeton style.) The phrase "¿Por qué no te callas?" was emblazoned on t-shirts, and even became a popular ringtone.
The above picture connects this meme to the meme-of-the-week. In a sort of cosmic revenge, the new interrupter, is interrupting the old interrupter.
This anti-Chavez imagery speaks to something the socio-political position that these Venezuelan tumblrs hold. In a nation like Venezuela there is vast disparity between the rich and the poor. Chavez's objective to redistribute wealth is something that affluent people are not excited about. (Along with general distaste for Chavez's pushes for lifelong autocracy.)
I think we (the meme-o-sphere) see so much opposition to Hugo Chavez, because many of his supporters often don't have access to the internet. You probably don't have time for funny internet videos, when you live in the slums of Caracas.
I think though that whatever your political proclivity you can agree that this video of Chavez dissing Fox News, is great Television.I use tumblr, to keep tapped into the pulse of the world's meme-o-sphere. I... more
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it seems that the Spanish Prime minister is Recalling all photographs of the US President with his daughters. id say let those children go to the beach. but hey I listened to the Cult back in the day so Rock On!! unforgivably your daughters pictures hit the Web. Anyone who's posted amateur porn videos of themselves with their Bf/Gf would know, that shit aint easy to wipe off.it seems that the Spanish Prime minister is Recalling all photographs of the US... more
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A Basque separatist convicted of killing 25 people has been freed from jail in Spain after serving 21 years. The release of Jose Ignacio de Juana Chaos has sparked outrage in Spain.
Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero spoke of his "contempt" for the former Eta militant, but said his government had to respect the law. De Juana Chaos was sentenced to more than 3,000 years in 1987, but under the penal code then in force, the maximum term he could serve was 30 years. He qualified for early release in 2004 but was given a further term for threatening behaviour. De Juana Chaos took part in a string of Eta attacks, including one of the group's deadliest - a Madrid car-bombing in 1986 which killed 12 members of the Guardia Civil police force.
In recent years he carried out several hunger strikes to protest against his treatment by the authorities. Mr Zapatero said De Juana Chaos "generates a perfectly understandable feeling of contempt" among all citizens "and of course the head of the government".
"But we must respect the law," the prime minister added. The group has killed more than 800 people in its four-decade campaign to set up an independent state straddling northern Spain and south-western France. The release of De Juana Chaos came 40 years to the day after Eta carried out its first targeted killing. A Basque separatist convicted of killing 25 people has been freed from jail in Spain... more
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