Posted in Events, Memory Lane, Music, People on Jun 28th, 2007 1 Comment »
Let me refer you to this official statement dated September 18th, 2001 - in German, but I assume you can read that - issued by the city-state Hamburg the day after the press conference there that ignited that brouhaha. The night before, only hours after that outrageous utterance, Dr. Christina Weiss, Hamburg’s Senator for Kultur, [...]
Posted in Life and culture, People on Jun 28th, 2007 No Comments »
Read all about it here.
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Posted in Life and culture, Reflections on Jun 27th, 2007 1 Comment »
By sheer coincidence, our classy tri-national German-language satellite television network called 3sat has just knocked me for a considerable loop with factual reports of recent alleged artistic phenomena that move me to write this bulletin.
What little exposure I’ve ever accidentally had to the deliberately morbid rock freak called Marilyn Manson sufficed to turn me away [...]
Posted in Memory Lane, People, Politics on Jun 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Any of you non-whippersnappers remember the crackerjack Alabama-born journalist William Bradford Huie? Last night a flashback documentary on Jack Kennedy’s murder in Dallas unexpectedly took me back to a visit I paid Huie in his little Alabama birthplace, Hartselle. He picked me up at the nearest commercial airport in Huntsville, already famous/infamous for two reasons: an electrocution-happy [...]
Posted in Memory Lane, Music, People on Jun 25th, 2007 4 Comments »
Since I recently brought up Germany’s perennially avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, apopos of the musical mountebankery above the city of Braunschweig, I feel constrained to drop the other shoe so I herewith drop it - rather unconventionally since this takes us all the way back to a report I wrote for www.musicalamerica.com almost six years ago:
September [...]
Posted in Events, Letter from Berlin, Life and culture on Jun 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
The annual celebratory Gay Pride parade that meanwhile has become almost a world-wide event may have in fact originated in San Francisco (where for thirteen years I used to marvel at how that perhaps uniquely laid-back metropolis had long since turned it into a genuine family event, with kids brought along by straight parents to [...]
Posted in Commonplace Book, Life and culture, People on Jun 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Goosed by a passer-by who stopped briefly at this dump, I’ve done a bit of Googling myself and excavated this:
“September 24, 2003
“Dr. Seuss on Blogs
“I was reading to Colter tonight and discovered a story called “Scrambled Eggs Super” in a Dr. Seuss collection. It was published in 1953, so the next time someone wants to [...]
Posted in Life and culture, Politics, Reflections on Jun 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
A nice Jewish boy in exotic Albuquerque, who recognizes a passionate practitioner of the true Christian ethic on the rare occasions one rises up to slap him right smack in the kisser, has just kindly brought to my outraged goyische attention an alarming example of white-supremacist racist discrimination, in this case against those original Australians who [...]
Posted in Letter from Berlin, Music on Jun 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
There, only a few kilometers beyond the city-state limits over in the Potsdam area, they plan to dedicate a brand-new “barefoot path” (graced by the motto “Walk and Think”) with musical accompaniment performed by wind-players from the … wait for it … Paul Moor Elementary School in Berlin’s northwesternmost Spandau borough.
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Posted in Commonplace Book, Life and culture, Reflections on Jun 22nd, 2007 3 Comments »
Blog, blogosphere, blook, cookie, facebook, folksonomy, godcast, me-media, netiquette - do those philological horrors have the same emetic effect on you that they do on me? According to a poll just published, they rank high on the list of repulsive Computer Age neologisms as ascertained by the linguistically fastidious (and presumably British) Lulu Blooker Prize, a literary [...]
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