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
  • A really, really, really bad airport

    Well, I succeeded in keeping off the net for three days. The flight to Arizona, which I had been slightly dreading because of fears that my two children would be driven to the point of insanity by 9+
  • Broadband detox

    It will probably be a few days until my next posting–as I think I mentioned earlier, I’m off to visit my wife’s family (well, now mine as well) in Arizona.It will probably do no harm
  • Pope Benedict XVI – identity correction?

    It would be unfair to suggest that this Monkey was entirely opposed to the election of Pope Benedict XVI. Al contrario thanks to some careful scrutiny of form, leading to a judicious bet on R
  • Habemus Papem…eheu?

    Someone (St. Fintan O’Toole of D’Olier Street?) recently pointed out that the paradox of Pope John Paul II’s reign was that he was a fierce anti-Communist who kept control over his o
  • Hard poetry and lumpy Complan

    Martin McDonagh’s play, “The Pillowman,” which isn’t newly written but is new to Broadway, is receiving rave reviews from a wide range of American critics. I’m dubious ab
  • The end of the world as we know it

    James Howard Kunstler is an entertainingly cranky writer based in the upstate New York town of Saratoga Springs. He is inordinately fond of the adjective ‘necrotic’ when describing the con
  • An Embarrassment of Riches

    There’s a pretty nausea-inducing article about the influence of the super-rich in the recent edition of New York magazine (not to be confused with The New Yorker, which usually affects a patrici
  • Defining a conflict of interest

    Following violent clashes at the weekend at various matches including Lazio-Livorno, Palermo-Messina, and Perugia-Ternana (it’s not confined solely to the big Serie A matches), Interior minister
  • When a Pope Dies – final dispatches

    Talking about the disruption caused to Rome due to the arrival of so many pilgrims to the eternal city, a typically sardonic local shrugged and said “Vabbe’, per fortuna succede ogni morte