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
  • Gun Law and Justice

    “It’s War,” says today’s Dziennik, referring to further political revelations, machinations and deteriorations of relations in parliamentary politics which I won’t go int
  • They used to publish Nabokov, y’know

    This week’s New Yorker features a short story from Roddy Doyle, called “The Photograph.” It’s not bad, clearly the work of a skilled practitioner. But I’m not sure if it
  • Pray and Save

    “Everyone knows the key to building wealth is through saving and investing” begins one of those newsoid articles that internet portals use to pad out their pages. Written by God knows who
  • Marketing

    I came across an ad in a current affairs magazine today. Here it goes: “Most women put quality first! 100% fewer hot flushes, 94% less excessive sweating, 98% less sleeplessness. [brandname]. Ac
  • Geopolitical insights

    I’m wondering why I have failed to greet North Korea’s recent gatecrashing of the nuclear club with appropriate foreboding. I’ve come to the conclusion that my blithe response must b
  • A decade of the rosary for the safe return of our national airline

    In a previous post I grandiloquently claimed that “we will have to find Arctic meltwater lapping at our doorsteps before we jettison the freedom [of cheap air travel]”. Alas it’s not
  • A snappier description

    Yesterday’s Observer mimicked a poll undertaken by The New York Times earlier this year and asked “150 literary luminaries to vote for the best British, Irish or Commonwealth novel from 19
  • Give and Take

    The EU and the US have come to a new agreement on the “sharing” of passenger information on transatlantic flights (or the west-bound ones anyway). The negotiations were carried on under so
  • Pretty Pictures

    Last week’s Polityka has an article on that most intrusive of the arts: architecture. Like their fellow members of the ??e-elity at the Gazeta Wyborcza, they seem think it a terrible shame that