January 2012
3 posts
Tommy Shots
Colombo mob boss Thomas “Tommy Shots” Gioeli, who earned his nickname after being shot several times in an ambush, was keen on toting a fashionable European-style clutch, according to a search warrant unsealed in Brooklyn federal court.
Frankly i could care less about that, those rims he’s sporting are world class dictator shit…i wonder if they auto dim?
Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
“I bought a mountain to go with my sunglasses”
Pappa Bongo
There are many ways of measuring Omar Bongo’s rule. The Omar Bongo Triumphal Boulevard, the Senate Palace Omar Bongo, and the university, football stadium, gymnasium and military hospital that all bear his name.
OR you can just look at his shades, yell “Tortoiseshell!!!!” and be done.
December 2011
7 posts
Merry Christmas
refreshments are to the left…enjoy!
"YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH WHEN YOURE TALKING TO ME!"
‘NUFF SAID…
BIN DONE....
The social media universe has been aghast this week after the revelation that Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia has invested $300 million in Twitter. The shock and awe seems to center around the notion that Twitter has been at least partly responsible for the Arab Spring uprisings that directly threaten the Saudi royal family’s grip on power.
I’m however waiting for some...
ILL OUT!!!!
First brother Momar, now ILL. these guys were my muse for “Dictators and the sunglasses who wear them.”
ILL rarely swayed from his vintage Vintage Courreges Sunglasses, but when you find perfection, you stay with it!
ILL was one crazy motherfucker, one dictator who truly created and owned a “look.”
his sunglasses will not be replaced, they will be retired.
da plane da plane!!!
Photographer Nick Gleis snaps planes for a living. Some of his photos—as featured in the forthcoming Brighton Photo Biennial show—are of African dictators’ private jets, circa 1960 - 1970.
i covered off on Saudi prince al-Waleed bin Talal’s plane which is the most baller of all, BUT if you want a plane that has that old las vegas strip vibe, these definately foot the bill.
speaking...
ILL...
when ILL pays you a visit, you don’t point out things to him. He looks in a direction, and YOU have to point at what you think hes looking at…
Hey Mangue...
Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue is Equatorial Guinea’s minister of agriculture and forestry. He’s also the son of long-time dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo which means he has “Uday Hussein” status in his country.
The US government is currently coming after his $35 million Malibu mansion, several ridiculous luxury cars, and a white crystal-studded Michael Jackson Bad...
November 2011
3 posts
First class according to Al-Waleed bin Talal
in the game of excess, you have players, you have all -stars then you have Al-Waleed bin Talal. Sometimes you just have to sit down, buy some popcorn and watch this motherfucker ball.
tired rims...
look, i dont ask for much from you saudi princes. You can clad a lambo in solid gold and make diamond studded seats, but when it comes to eye wear, you SUCK. Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal cant carry the whole family.
i dont care how many soccer teams you own, STEP IT UP SON!…i’m not mad at the tie though…
Sani Abacha
During Abacha’s regime, a total of £5 billion was reported siphoned out of the country’s coffers by the head of state and members of his family. At that time Abacha was listed as the world’s fourth most corrupt leader in recent history, and would have been fifth, had he not puchased a pair of 24k gold porsche carerra fold ups.
October 2011
4 posts
African dictator's son orders £236 million luxury...
The son of Equatorial Guinea’s dictator of 30 years commissioned plans to build a super yacht costing $380 million, nearly three times what the country spends on health and education each year. the other $380 million goes towards much more important things; like sunglasses!
The brutalized body of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi now lies on a mattress in a commercial freezer at a shopping center in Misrata, Libya.
who will the foster grants choose next to wear? who will wear one more piece of TGI Friday’s Military medal flair? its anyone’s guess…
the man in the foster grants.....
Momar---OUT!
ended up with his dead bloody body in the street like all dictators do. The sunglasses? They said “eff that!!!” and left!
July 2011
2 posts
Dawood Ibrahim
This charming face belongs to Dawood Ibrahim; the head of the organized crime syndicate D-Company in Mumbai
rose tinted glasses, CHECK. Cigarette CHECK. pseudo drug rug jacket. CHECK but that plastic covering the lampshade? PRICELESS!!!!
June 2011
1 post
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded when opposition tribesmen determined to topple him hammered his palace with rockets Friday in a major escalation of nearly two weeks of fighting with government forces. YO, ALI, DONT FUCK WITH THE TRIBESMAN, THEY’RE LIKE HONEY BADGERS!
May 2011
1 post
asleep @ the wheel
Listen! give up power, and bugger off to some island where you can smoke pot and play HALO all day…
February 2011
7 posts
Oh Moammar....
the man behind the Foster Grants…
i'm still here mang
Moammar Gadhafi wears his Antonio Montana suit to let everyone know that HE is still the HNIC. Think not? Then you die of lead poisoning.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh
Yemeni dictator promised he will not extend his presidency beyond 2013. Uh, how about upgrading your eyewear SON! its just plain laziness…
BUBYE....
Im sure he took all his gold plated AK47’s given to him by like likes of Saddam….sunglasses? SOLIT GOL’ SON!
QE Deuces
Here’s Lizzie going to see “The Kings Speech” in 3-D… “Damn, father was HOT!”
Omar Suleiman
Egypt’s intelligence chief, General Omar Suleiman is believed to be the man most activists are backing to succeed Hosni Mubarak….or is it…PETER SELLERS?!
Hosni Mubarak
looks like someone Gots to go!….I hear Switzerland is always a safe bet!
January 2011
4 posts
Tamil Nadu
In a bold and unprecedented move that comes late into his distinguished political career, Tamil Nadu chief minister Dr.M.Karunanidhi has finally answered the question foremost on the minds of people all over the country – what’s behind his sunglasses? The answer is most unexpected, and, typically for Kalaignar, insanely cool : another, smaller pair of sunglasses!
firm as a monkey tail
Jean-Claude ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier; Haiti’s prodical son returns. With sunglasses made of 100,000 year old wood and gold, with lenses straight out of K-Mart.
Prince Alwaleed pt.2
pure pimpin’
Prince Alwaleed
Prince Alwaleed of saudi arabia knows a thing or two about the west—hes invested a ton of paper in U.S. firms such as Citigroup, Apple, AOL, and Compaq.its rumored that he wants Sean Penn to play him in a biopic hes producing….
November 2010
2 posts
LISTEN!
since Kim Jong Un hasn’t been wearing any of the eyewear that his father made famous, i’m suggesting he take his own path—maybe sport a goggle like frame. this rendering shows how he can look through the lens of Maison Martin Margiela.
PS: LESS with the bombing and MORE with the eyewear!!
the sultans of Brunei
with all his dynastic dough, you would think the current Sultan of Brunei would at least pay half as much attention to his eyewear as his father did. someone has definitely fallen a long fucking way off the pimp shade tree
October 2010
8 posts
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's Dictator qualifications:
ignoble qualities of perfidy: CHECK
cultural betrayal: CHECK
sunglasses: “WHAT THE FUCK YOU THINK THESE ARE?!”
MMugabe signs accord with misc. sub saharan...
MUGABE TO AIDE: “WHO THE FUCK IS THIS MOTHERFUCKER?!”
"I TOLE YOO!"
Gaddafi’s flow is so complete, he matches the tissue box! DAMN!
DIPSET DIPSET DIPSET
AWESOME MURAL! The late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan and his son, His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler of Abu Dhabi and President of UAE are looking better than any of the diplomats dream to be
Just call me Moby...
although Mobutu Sese Seko Nkuku Ngbendu wa Za Banga wasn’t not known for shades, the thick rimmed frames he sported were the envy of many a dictator.
as for the animal print joints? i have it on good authority that he was an inspiration for both Mommar Gaddafi AND Sly Stone. Pure Baller!!!
The Bear in a Harley...
Vladimir Putin rides a Harley Davidson Lehman Trike to meet up with some mofo’s he has bidnass wit’.
i love the fact that riding a Harley remains the international symbol of Badass…even a trike!
BACKSTAGIN'
“YEAH SHORTIE, YOU GOIN’ BACKATAGE AND
AHMA—
AHMA—
AHMADINEJAD’S GONNA MAKE YA’!
Hubris on steroids
is it urine or is it beer? either way, it’s ILL
September 2010
2 posts
THE NEXT ILL?
if Kim Jong Nam wants to take over for his father, he needs to switch out from those boring ass shades FOR REALZ!
TAKE THAT ILL!!!
for 20 years Kenji Fujimoto was head sushi chef for, and later a confidante of, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il. Now, he’s letting people know just who wears the sunglasses in that regime!!!!
August 2010
3 posts
if you want to make an impression...
ALWAYS roll up with an all female crew in full salt-n-peppa flow
Idi's Ugandan Veyron
“she’s got a few miles on her, but she’ll get you there!”
June 2010
1 post
Starsky & Hutch w/ the clutch
“Are we on the list? NI**A, WE ARE THE LIST!!!!
May 2010
1 post
Mugabe's 'Noah's Ark' gift to Kim Jong Il sparks...
he British conservation group Born Free has joined the outcry against a plan by Zimbabwe to ship a “Noah’s Ark” of wildlife, including two young elephants, to North Korea.
News reports last week said the animals, reportedly two of every species in Zimbabwe’s 14,600 square kilometer Hwange National Park, are to be a gift from Zimbawean President Robert Mugabe to his North Korean ...
March 2010
9 posts
Meles Zenawi
“yao, dat Ethiopian weed wheel FAAAK YEWWW APPPPP SUN”