Nothing and Some More

American Gods

I can believe things that are true and I can believe things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen-I believe that people are perfectible, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is regularly visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones who look like wrinkedly lemurs and bad ones who mutilate our cattle and want out water and our women. I believe the future sucks and I believe the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline of good sex in America is coincidant with the decline in drive-in movie theatres from state-to-state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe they are better then the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to germs so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like the martians in War of the Worlds. I believe that the best poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed siberian shaman. I believe that man's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really DID taste better when I was a kid, that its aerodynamically impossible for a bumblebee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, and that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (Although if they don't ever open the box it'll just be two different types of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older then the universe itself. I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of casual chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, and while all life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you may as well lie back and enjoy it." (copied from wikiquote so I don't have to type it)

Dakar : vivre avec 2 dollars par jour

Mystère insondable pour des budgets familiaux européens, mais réalité africaine courante, Combé Goudiaby, veuve et chargée de famille, vit avec moins que les fameux "2 dollars par jour" qui constituent le seuil de pauvreté des statistiques internationales, l'étalon de la misère du Sud et le quotidien de 68 % des Sénégalais, selon le dernier rapport de l'ONU sur le développement humain.

L'article parle de Goorgoolou, un personnage de bande dessinée puis de feuilleton formidablement populaire au point de devenir un nom commun.Sur les sites .sn goorgoorlu fait plus de hits que goorgoorlou.

Goorgoorlou, "le débrouillard" en wolof est un héros sénégalais dont la préoccupation majeure est d’assurer la DQ (dépense quotidienne). D'abord une bande dessinée, c'est ensuite devenu un feuilleton à la tv au Sénégal. Un entretien avec son créateur T.T.Fons (avec la graphie gourgourlou presque tout le temps!) Et un article du MondeDiplo Goorgoorlou, le cri du peuple.

TT Fons (alias Alphone Mendy) illustre les unes du Cafard Libéré, dont il est d'ailleurs l'un des fondateurs.Et à la biennale de l'art african comtemporain à Dakar, un atelier sur la BD africaine vient juste de se terminer: le project Africa Comics (pas de podcast hélas!)

La couverture d'un des albums avec la graphie gourgourlou. Google Images a aussi quelques cases de la bédé.

J'ai cherché des vidéos du feuilleton tv, mais... y'a rien sur Pirate Bay, rien sur Usenet, rien sur You tube et rien sur Google video. Rien non plus sur le site de la Radiodiffusion Télévision Sénégalaise. Sur Skyblog, une image du générique. Cependant, Seneweb vend des vhs (au format NTSC) avec le titre la semaine de Gourgourlu, avec un extrait... Mais http://www.seneweb.com/shop/catalog/ ne me donne pas super confiance en Seneweb...

Bref, la francophonie sur Internet, ce n'est pas encore ça. Cher lecteur, envoie moi un divx des aventures de Goorgoorlou.