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So, who is this Cardinal Guzman?
I named this blog Cardinal Guzman after a character in one of the books of Louis de Berniéres: “The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman”. This is the third book in a triology, were the first two are: ‘The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts’ and ‘Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord’.
Cardinal Guzman is, to put it very delicately, not a very likeable person (hopefully we don’t have a lot in common), but de Berniéres books are definitely entertaining.
When I am not blogging I work in a non-creative, standard, lame and pointless job – just like most people do. It pays the bills and makes sure that I don’t waste my life on interesting stuff like photography, writing, art or music…
Cardinal Guzman is not the best guy around, not even by normal person standards. And the man is a Cardinal! So as you might expect, Cardinal Guzman has a lot of repressed guilt and a bit of self loathing lurking around his subconscious. – illiterarty.com
Louis de Berniéres most famous book is probably “Captain Corellis Mandolin” which has also been filmatized starring Nicolas Cage & Penelope Cruz.
Great art is horseshit – buy tacos
Charles Bukowski
For those of you that are interested, I can reveal that I’m also on Pinterest & Google+, so feel free to add me there, but my main focus is here on this blog.
There`s an error about your ping back your image icon disappear on the comment box if you want to try again make it simple and short you can delete this after you read have a nice day more power to your blog….jake
I don’t understand where & what the error is, but I’ve cleaned up the html a bit.
Could you send me another one request so i can fix it for better view, Thank you i appreciate how you communicate with me . cause straight to tell i`m not familiar with this ping back i cannot use it or i do not know how to use it All i know is to post thank you.
I’m not sure if it’s possible to send another pingback, but I’ve tried. Here’s what I did:
- I removed the link to your page and saved the post.
- Then I re-added the link to your page and saved again.
If it doesn’t work, I don’t think it’s possible to re-ping.
That is helpful, Could i ask you something i see there is so many list blogger site in your latest post hidden how can you do that ?
Here you’ll find all the explanations you’ll need, accompanied by screenshots – it’s quite simple ( I love WordPress!)
http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/
Really glad to meet you. When you left a comment over on my blog I thought the Catholic Church was after me. Dios mio!
Haha, lets hope the Catholic Church won’t have to hunt you down
If they ever do, you can hide here at our place!
Awesome blog, and I love your Gravitar photo. Did you take that? Also, that’s a pretty awesome picture of a camel. Yours too?
What a great comment to start my day! Thanks Jaqueline
Yes I’ve shot all the photos: the Gravatar is made from a photo I took of a shop- window in Germany. The camel is captured in the Jordanian desert, and the city that can be vaguely seen in the sand is Tel Aviv.
Hi there, thanks for the pingback. I appreciate it
No problem aRVee.
Happy Holidays!
Hi, I’ve nominated you for the versatile blogger award so if you would like it go here,
http://lucidgypsy.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/awards-update-part-two/
Thanks Gilly! I’ll get back to you on that one after yule
Happy holidays!
Many thanks for visiting my blog and for your kind comments upon my poetry and art Cardinal Guzman
Nice meeting you and your interesting photos
Wishing you a wonderful evening
//Eclipse
Thank you very much Eclipse. You have some great stuff in your blog!
I love the shot of the camel in the header! Great blog, interesting photos
Glad you like it Happy Sherlock
You’re welcome back here any time you want!
I’ve changed my main header now, but (if any readers should wonder about it) here’s the camel:
http://cardinalguzman.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/where-moses-spotted-the-holy-land/camel-topheader-960×260/
And this is another topheader that used to be on this page:
http://cardinalguzman.wordpress.com/cardinal-guzman/girls-room-topheader-960×260/
Cardinal, are you a male or female cardinal? lol!
Can females be cardinals? I don’t think the church allows that, but anyway: I am a male cardinal. I posess the typical male biological features, but I don’t like football (the whole world calls it football but, for some weird reason, some people insist on using the term soccer when talking about this unbelievably boring game).
Thank goodness you clarified this!
Definitely! For a brief moment I wasn’t even sure myself!
Thank you so much for visiting my blog and that warm word hug
I had to start stalking you… you have a lovely blog here,the Gravatar, the camel header,the photographs, the Libyan lamb shorba… everything so well written and displayed
Have a wonderful weekend
It’s flattering to hear that you like my posts enough to follow my blog. Thank you very much for this lovely comment Soma.
Ciao! I’ve been stalking your blog for sometime now and I’ve now awarded you with the Versatile Blogger Award! Do what you will with it! Congrats! Keep the great photos coming!
http://laavventura.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/fourth-times-a-charm-the-versatile-blogger-award/#more-3421
Thanks for the nomination. I will put it on the shelf by my digital fireplace with the other awards
Im sure it will look great glistening in the light of your digital fireplace!
I haven’t gotten around to actually creating the digital fireplace yet, but the plan is to eventually do it someday and then place all the awards there.
Hi Cardinal
Just to let you know, I have nominated you for the 7 x 7 Link Award. I think the purpose of it is to highlight beautiful and inspiring blogs – so I thought of your blog. The details are here: http://thefutureispapiermache.wordpress.com/awards/the-magic-number-awards-post/. Don’t feel under any pressure to participate if you don’t want to. All the best, Richard
Thanks for the nomination. I’m flattered to hear that you find my blog beautiful & inspiring. I’ll put the award on the shelf by my digital fireplace together with the other awards.
This is interesting!
Thanks Inge. I’ve edited the information & changed some pictures here now, but hopefully it’s still interesting!
Have you always lived in Norway, Cardinal?
Almost, but I lived for a short while in Pokhara & Jerusalem. Also spent 9 months travelling from place to place in India (but most of that time I stayed in Delhi and Rishikesh).