Recently he went on a holiday to Washington DC free of charge, paid by the Maltese taxpayer and organized by the twice-married, twice-divorced husband-hunter who loves to cut trees and trim bushes.
The three day trip was organized and paid in the context of a single hour lecture to the Americans on Baroque in Malta. As if they care! Anyway, such a lecture could have been done online using modern technology.
Not sure whether he stayed at the ambassador’s house or whether he stayed at one of the very expensive Washington DC hotels during the three nights’ stay there. Maybe Kenneth Zammit Tabona is also afraid of the trees surrounding the ambassador’s house or maybe the ambassador had a man in her bed who she did not want to share with her Maltese guest.
It’s telling that he poses with a portrait of Chairman Mao rather than with one of the world’s most iconic news photographs: that of a lone student about to be mown down by a tank in Tianamen Square.
I will never forget the scenes of that awful day, and am still in disbelief that it wasn’t enough to instigate a revolution. I remember all too clearly protesting on the streets here in Malta. Where was Astrid Vella, and I would love to see her protest against the Chinese.
I don’t know why you’re bringing Astrid Vella into this, but now that you mention it, Astrid was right there, protesting with us when we held a protest outside the Chinese Embassy during the visit of some Chinese bigwig, a few years ago. Time for an apology?
Ironically enough, this was just a few doors up from Kenneth’s flat in St Julian’s.
He’s in with the Chinese who bought into the IIP scheme and need to decorate their newly acquired property in Europe. The poor guy needs to earn a living.
Living in the past. If the artist wants to ingratiate himself with the close collaborators of the present Maltese government he should have chosen a better representative of modern China.
It is now a known historical fact that the Long March of Communist Mao Zedong was not the heroic epic that he made it out to be.
It was more of a diversion to give the Japanese to opportunity to destroy his local rivals, the Kuomintang led by Chiang Kai-shek.
Mao’s legacies are the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, both of which harmed China in a spectacular way.
What does he think of himself, some Andy Warhol?
Nah. Just plain Kenny Arsehol.
I wonder how much of that trash he’ll be selling in the south.
Please don’t call him arsehole.
That might be enough to precipitate an orgasmic rapture.
Ic-coff nehhieh. It-tbissima ta’ laghqi zammha.
Donnu nesa’ li Chou En Lai ilu snin shah li m’ghadux maghna u li anki niesu stess warrbuh.
Vera li “issa jista” – jekk, izda, jsib lil min ihallih.
That is Mao Tse Dong not Chou En Lai.
Thanks. Couldn’t determine which of the two ‘champions’.
I think it was Mao’s wife, too, who has also been ‘dethroned’.
Laghqizmu sew! and it definitely pays.
Recently he went on a holiday to Washington DC free of charge, paid by the Maltese taxpayer and organized by the twice-married, twice-divorced husband-hunter who loves to cut trees and trim bushes.
Details.
May 15 – 17, excluding travel days.
The three day trip was organized and paid in the context of a single hour lecture to the Americans on Baroque in Malta. As if they care! Anyway, such a lecture could have been done online using modern technology.
http://www.foreign.gov.mt/default.aspx?MDIS=4716&NWID=4862
Not sure whether he stayed at the ambassador’s house or whether he stayed at one of the very expensive Washington DC hotels during the three nights’ stay there. Maybe Kenneth Zammit Tabona is also afraid of the trees surrounding the ambassador’s house or maybe the ambassador had a man in her bed who she did not want to share with her Maltese guest.
Dan bis-serjeta’ jew fis-sakra?
Din tal-biza’ daqskemm hi ma titwemminx!
They’ve started doing the satire themselves?
Ferhan li hu bahnan.
Ahna nghidu “ferhan ghax cuc” actually
It’s telling that he poses with a portrait of Chairman Mao rather than with one of the world’s most iconic news photographs: that of a lone student about to be mown down by a tank in Tianamen Square.
http://www.makingchangenow.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/tiananmen-square.jpg
I will never forget the scenes of that awful day, and am still in disbelief that it wasn’t enough to instigate a revolution. I remember all too clearly protesting on the streets here in Malta. Where was Astrid Vella, and I would love to see her protest against the Chinese.
I don’t know why you’re bringing Astrid Vella into this, but now that you mention it, Astrid was right there, protesting with us when we held a protest outside the Chinese Embassy during the visit of some Chinese bigwig, a few years ago. Time for an apology?
Ironically enough, this was just a few doors up from Kenneth’s flat in St Julian’s.
He reminds me of the proverbial angel, Jidhaq bil musmar f’sorm*.
It’s his favourite saying.
Who knows why?
Sorry Edgar, for the sake of correctness.
“Bil-musmar f’sormu u jkanta vittorja”.
Is that some kind of homosexual Kama Sutra technique for the bow-tie bunch?
Vile and viler
Few things are more tragic than adolescents three years short of their Kartanzjan.
The grin of a quasi-60 year old with the IQ of a 12-year old.
Posing with a picture of a man guilty of more deaths than Adolf Hitler and Iosef Stalin combined. Charming.
As his Facebook crowd would say, WTF?
He should take a look at this instead:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei
He can only dream of having a pair of balls like his
Joseph Muscat and Sai Mizzi are indoctrinating him pretty well. Maybe he is exploring a new market for his worthless and amateur watercolours.
Well he is certainly losing customers very quickly here.
Watch the trailer: http://aiweiweineversorry.com/
He has switched yet again.
From Jo to Mao.
Was this on the ‘to do to get the flat in Valletta’ list or has he gotten that already?
So much for the ‘artists identify with free thinking and such’ idea. Or has China become the champion of democracy while we were not looking?
Oh and by the way, what is Maltese high society high on?
Did it really have to come to this?
And to think that Zammit Tabona was once considered as a rather smart guy and a bit of an intellectual.
How very, very sad.
He sold his soul for a posh flat and a bevy of Filipino house-boys.
Indians. Sorry, Asians.
Oh and “bevy” isn’t the word. There’s just two of them.
I’ve met them. Charming fellows.
As Alice said down the rabbit hole: Curioser and curioser.
He’s in with the Chinese who bought into the IIP scheme and need to decorate their newly acquired property in Europe. The poor guy needs to earn a living.
Fidil.
Veru waqa’ baxx Kenneth. Mela m’ghadux ibih pitturi lil Maltin minn mindu sar switcher. Shame on you Kenneth you lost all your friends’ respect.
Living in the past. If the artist wants to ingratiate himself with the close collaborators of the present Maltese government he should have chosen a better representative of modern China.
It is now a known historical fact that the Long March of Communist Mao Zedong was not the heroic epic that he made it out to be.
It was more of a diversion to give the Japanese to opportunity to destroy his local rivals, the Kuomintang led by Chiang Kai-shek.
Mao’s legacies are the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, both of which harmed China in a spectacular way.