• Tough economic times call for attractive national leaders
• Budapest Public Transport Planning Everything Must Go Fire Sale!

Some of the others maybe under duress. Maybe…

I took this picture in the French Alps near Le Corbier and La Toussuire. If you want to see what the image looks like in non-HDR for comparison, check out the standard exposure version here.

As for this week’s posts I wrote for All Hungary, here they are.

Politics.hu:

• Respected British weekly’s country of origin mystifies leaders of the right
• János Kóka admits he’s unfit to lead Free Dems

Pestiside.hu

• Quiz Show Host Admits to Rigging Results
• Quiz Show Rigging Obvious to Everyone Except the Host
• President Opens Museum in Memory of the Hungarian Language
• New Animated Film Voted Worst of All Time

I was at the intersection of Csalogány utca and Kapás utca looking east when I took the photos for this HDR shot. You can see part of the parliament building toward the back.

Last Friday, Pestiside was on strike, so I didn’t have a Friday post with what I wrote over at All Hungary. So, that’s why this post exists.

Politics.hu:

• Hungarian air force updating fleet by crashing old fighter planes

Pestiside.hu:

• Pollution Enthusiasts Look Forward to Positive Developments in Fight Against Cheery Bicyclists

No, this HDR image looking at Ferenciek tere from in front of the university library has nothing to do with the title, it’s just so I post something other than links. The opening scene of the film Underworld with Kate Beckinsale was shot here, as well as the descent into the metro where there’s a gun fight, which to anyone who’s actually caught the metro from there, was obviously substituted with a set for the film.

Today at Politics.hu:

• Prosecutor rejects negligent homicide charges against prime minister
• Slovak Nationalist Party removes Hungary from the map, claims poorer half

And this piece which will surely earn me an award:

• This “Scandal” Smacks of a Bunch of Szar

Politics.hu

• Fidesz representative receives death threats for organizing anti-fascist protest
• Fidesz pol continues transition into mythical Hungarian hero, socialist friend

Pestiside.hu

• Hungary’s Hotties to Race in High Heels

So, over at Politics.hu:

• Free Dem chairman wants you to know he reads the Financial Times

And over at Pestiside.hu:

• Elderly Man Discovers Trabants Are Not Light-Rail Vehicles
• Blikk Proves They’re the Tabloid to Beat When it Comes to Death Graphics
• Upskirt Enthusiasts Await Museum of Fine Arts’ Underground Expansion
• Architect Proposes Sauron’s Lair to be Included in the Budapest Skyline

Here’s a list of some of my finer contributions.

Chew.hu:

• Magyar Microwave: Hungarian Stuffed Peppers, Without the Peppers
• Small Hungarian Grocery Chains Choose God Over Customers
• Beware Friends Bearing Cans of Sausage Lentil Főzelék
• Magyar Microwave: Chili May be the Pick of Pick’s Ready-to-Eat Meals
• Regős Vendéglő Skips on the Musicians, Provides Good Affordable Meals Instead
• Magyar Microwave: The Tesco Meal Marathon

Politics.hu

• The undertaker is placing the final nail in the Free Democrats’ coffin
• Is Katalin Szili’s dissent a silly farce, or a genuine revolt in the making?
• The challenge for Fidesz will be to maintain their current pace
• Gyurcsány and Orbán make conciliatory gestures, albeit not to each other

I also regularly write the short blog posts there, but since those are meant to be subjective and generally just a piss take, I don’t attach my name to them.

Pestiside.hu:

• Catch Pneumonia While the Billboards Say You’re Going to Melt
• The Sad State of the ‘56 Memorial After Less than a Year
• Feeling Cocky, BKV to Raise Prices, Introduce Night Terrors
• Package Tour Hung-O-Rama: On the Bus from Budapest to Les Sybelles
• Annual Hungarian Drunken Gropefest Seeks UNESCO Status
• Facial Hair Key to Free Democrat Success
• You Have Less Than Twelve Hours to Rid Yourself of the Ft 1 and 2 Coins!
• Catching the Train to Budapest Airport Way More Difficult Than it Should Be
• Hungarian Tourist Board Reclaims Slovakia

I’ve written some other pieces for Pestiside too, but I wasn’t about to attach my name to some of those, not because they’re controversial, (at least not in most cases), it’s that they’re primarily just translations of other pieces.