Dan Zammit Tabona veru jissorprendini, mhux tant bil-faqar li qal li jghix fih bhala artist full time, daqs kemm bil-faqar ta’ nntellet li jippossedi! Il-faqar ta’ argumenti li jaghmel huma ekwivalenti ghal faqar tal-arti li jipproduci, li ma tmurx lil hinn aktar min ‘fumetti’ ta’ verzjoni strettament ‘naive’ u delettanteska.

Jien li ghext dejjem fl-ambjenti tal-arti u fost l-artisti, qatt ma stajt nifhem certa logika ta’ kif timxi l-attivita’ artistika f’pajjizna ghal diversi ragunijiet. Wahda minnhom tinvolvi psewdo-artisti tal-livell ta’ Kenneth, li talli jipproducu xoghol ta’ livell tant baxx u pwerili, jithallsu l-belli liri. Ghalkemm dan id-diskors, barra min malta kien ikun differenti, f’malta ma jaghmilx sens.

Ghandi hbieb tieghi li huma artisti validissimi u ghandhom anke xoghol ikkummisjonat (mhux mixtri min xi turist jew moghti bhala rigal), barra minn Malta, li ma joholmux li jaghmlu esibizzjoni personali u jbieghu kollox bhal Kenneth, meta l-prezzijiet taghhom huma ferm aktar ragjonevoli.

Jien kont darba f’irkant fejn kien hemm xoghol ta’ arti fina ta’ pregju li ma gabx flus daqs bicca xoghol li giet irkantata ftit wara maghmula minn Zammit Tabona – affarijiet li ma jitwemmnux meta tikkunsidra li dan l-artist barra min malta ma jaf bih hadd, apparti mill-livell baxx tax-xoghol.

Hu biss grazzi ghal livell baxx generali t’apprezzament tal-arti li hawn f’pajjizna…flimkien mal-fortuna li tigi min certi kuntatti ma crieki partikolari, li nies bhal Kenneth Zammit Tabona jirnexxielhom jaghmlu parodija mill-arti li ttihom profil gholi u qliegh tajjeb.

@ H P Baxxter sadly I am one of those you mentioned, but I am too old to vote pl as in I know too much what lejber is made of. So I must vote the party that has walked over my experience to favour 20 years juniour to me “zatat” who thinks he can push his wieght about, and so you do know what it feels like because you mentioned it. The PN should thank its lucky stars that its voter is made of good value citizens who mean well. We are all frustrated and need a new change, but I can never vote pl. I prefer to stay hurt as I am, than voting for suicide.

First he trashes the PN proposals on culture insinuating that they were written by a moron, then he states he loves the MLP programme because they mention his beloved art museum which he will be heading.

He goes on and accuses The Times for allowing online comments that question him and criticize him.

How on earth does tThe Times of Malta allow any criticsm of its keynote columnist? My goodness, shame on them.

I think that all the massaging of Kenneth’s ego that Joseph Muscat has (falsely) done has gone to Kenneth’s head. His self-aggrandisement is beyond belief.

He is angry at the PN for not listening to him on the Renzo Piano project (how dare they not bow to his wishes?).

He claims that the money that he earns from the Manoel Theatre and the Baroque festival is less than a single painting he sells. As though a position like that is taken for money.

I am convinced that these big-headed a**holes actually belong to Labour.

People like Marco Cremona, Astrid Vella and Kenneth Zammit Tabona have the exact same personality as Joseph Muscat. The world owes them a living, and gGod help anyone who dares to question them – a perfect reflection of Lilliput mentality.

I am curious to watch them implode after the election, once they become the experts on anything that moves in this silly island. We will watch them morph into multiple Franco Debonos.

But you’re not in the gay community like Cyrus is.

And that, my friend, is how they lose elections. If you had to draw up a list of government appointees, there are more Laburisti than Nazzjonalisti or neutrals.

Sort of gives a new meaning to “Nazzjonalisti mwegga'”. Of course imwegga’. It’s the tale of the prodigal son all over again.

No worries if you called me a lair but these are the facts. And I was more than a lover, his soul mate etc rather than a pest.

[Daphne – Well yes, lots of women think that even after their husband walks out and spends 10 years living with another woman. But there you go. And I called you a liar, not a lair. Try this, why don’t you: actually go to Mater Dei Hospital right now and ask whether you will be allowed in to see your lover should be be taken ill. They will look at you as though you are crazy. A couple of years ago, I visited a FRIEND who was on his deathbed at Sir Paul Boffa hospital. Nobody even asked me who I was or what I was doing there.]

This is the problem with the PN – they keep appeasing ungrateful people – who want more, while ignoring the loyal people who never whine.

What privileges do gay couples obtain? None. Homosexuality is legal in Malta, but same-sex couples and households headed by same-sex couples are not eligible for the same legal protections available to opposite-sex married couples.

[Daphne – Your reasoning is addled. Those rights do not derive from sexuality or coupledom. They derive from marital status. A married couple who haven’t had any kind of sentimental, sexual or even spoken relationship with each for years still have those rights, even though they are in effect not a couple. Also, neither political party is promising you marriage. Both political parties are promising the same thing – civil unions. The status of a civil union is not the same as that of marriage. See the current debate in Britain. Inform yourself before you speak. This is not a value judgement. I am merely laying out the facts before you.]

My partner wished to see me but because we were singles I had no right to do so as I was asked if I was a relative or not.

[Daphne – Bollocks. You’re a liar, sorry. That’s not how things are done and I know this for a fact. Even common sense, if you had any, would tell you that patients (especially patients on their deathbed, as you claim) are never refused a request to see somebody they want to see. Maybe that’s what he told you. He told the nurse ‘Keep that pest out’ and then told you ‘oh, they didn’t allow me to bring you in because we’re not married’. But then, of course, you’re lying. Deathbed, my eye. And use your head, for heaven’s sake. Do you honestly imagine that real people in the real world actually get married so as to have a licence to visit their spouse’s deathbed in hospital? Unbelievable.]