Brian Cowen Cartoon Analysed in Academic Paper
This Brian Cowen cartoon which featured in the Connacht Tribune in 2008 accompanying Charlie Adley’s Double Vision has been examined in a scholarly article.
This Brian Cowen cartoon which featured in the Connacht Tribune in 2008 accompanying Charlie Adley’s Double Vision has been examined in a scholarly article.
You read that right. The Brian Cowen LinkedIn profile avatar is a photo of a framed photo taken on an iPad you can see reflected in the glass. This elicits so many questions. Did he take it himself? Was he too tight to pay for a professional photo and just snapped a photo of a photo of himself at someone’s Communion? Didn’t he used to run the country? Is it some meta-commentary on the fractured nature of modern identity? Do they not issue scanners to former taoisigh? Does he not have Google? Could his Garda bodyguard not have taken one for him? Is that him you can see reflected in the glass as well? Did he not want a LinkedIn but someone told him he had to get one so he’s playing up by doing it badly?
Fiddling while Rome burns.
Martin Rowson of the Guardian just sent me his contribution to Fústar’s nudie Cowen postcard exhibition. The exhibition is open to everyone. Send us your postcards!
Fústar‘s been on to me. He wants everyone to send him a nudie postcard of Brian Cowen: Ok. I hereby want to encourage every single person reading this to send me (via post) a nude Brian Cowen postcard (ask for my address and it will be given). If we gather enough together I’ll find a … Read more