Three Monkeys Online

A Curious, Alternative Magazine

Slovenia

  • Ljubljana

    Ljubljana is one of Europe's coolest capital cities, famed for its castle, beautiful bridges, vibran
  • Can we Panic Yet?

    Yesterday I had a perfectly average day — the details of which I will not bother you with — nicely rounded off with a refreshing ten hours kip. Is this “dignity under pressure”
  • A crusade of hetero-justice!

    First some background: As you might have heard, piffling issues such as the war in Iraq and the stalled reconstruction of New Orleans were brushed aside this week by many U.S. media outlets. Instead t
  • Identity Crisis

    First, the Catholic Church crumbles, then David McWilliams tells us we’re all filthy-rich HiCo decklanders, but this news threatens to cut the last, frayed ropes tethering us to auld sod: From T
  • No Sex in the City

    If the publicity photographs are anything to go by, Roddy Doyle has gone from looking like a trendy-“I want you kids to write about what you know”-teacher to his present incarnation as a f
  • Worst…Pun…Ever

    While she was alive Diana Spencer had the power to turn stolid middle-aged men into gibbering idiots (c.f. Alastair Campbell’s toe-curling accounts of his encounters with the dysfunctional arist
  • Holiday Consumption

    Film: An Inconvenient Truth: Al Gore presents a compelling case, delivering another nail in the coffin of the argument that climate change is a debatable/distant threat. (And mid-way through a spookil
  • Competition time

    A while ago, I came across Charles Baudelaire’s famous poem À une passante in an American journal article that was discussing the evolution of the city during the 19th-century. The poem is ofte
  • Oh, Those Russians

    Tuesday’s Gazeta Wyborcza has a review of two books. The subhead reads: “These two books are crying out to be read in tandem — both were written by Englishmen fascinated by the histo
  • Who Lost Minsk?

    The West’s woes continue…RTE’s website leads with the chilling news that “Belavia has confirmed its once weekly winter service between Shannon and Minsk will cease on 25 Octobe