Post by Laurent Dubois The French national anthem, La Marseillaise, is, if you think about it, a pretty nasty song. It dreams, in one of its more memorable verses, that the “blood of the impure” will “irrigate our fields.” It’s a rousing anthem, to be sure, and I myself can frequently be heard humming it […]
Apparently the video for Pepsi’s “Oh Africa” commercial is the first 2010 World Cup commercial to go viral. (I’ve blogged about it here before.) So much for Coke thinking its official World Cup sponsor status and numerous videos it is shooting with its designated star, K’Naan, would guarantee it domination among football fans. Footnote: I […]
Dani Alves broke the hearts of Bafana Bafana fans in the Confederations Cup, so I should not having his picture up here. But if you’re a football fan, then you’ll appreciate the photography of the team of Mike Diver and Pedro Aguilar. (The phrase in Catalan on his arms means just what the title of […]
