In what was sure to have been one turkey of a show, Turkey beat Germany last night on a SAT .1 TV duel game show thingy. Sorry I missed it (not).
Damn. No sooner does German President Christian Wulff assert that Islam “belongs” in Germany than the Turks get all uppity and whoop everybody’s butt.
“Was die Show, außer den Kandidaten, mit den beiden Nationen zu tun hatte, blieb weitgehend schleierhaft.”
Approving stuff in Germany is always problematic. Disapproval is almost always vorprogrammiert (preprogrammed). That’s why when the German government made clear its intention to extend the country’s use of nuclear power, everybody adhering to the ideological requirements of korrekt German Green thinking disapproved–and that’s a whole lot of folks too.
But at least the Greens at Greenpeace got a little creative about it this time (or as usual?). Protesters projected images with the slogan “atomic power damages Germany” onto the side of several of the country’s nuclear reactors. As far as I can tell, their reason for doing this was to explain to everybody that atomic power damages Germany. Not that they didn’t already know this, the main thing was that this was an Aktion. You know, one of those “happening” thingies?
And I don’t do art so I had to look it up: “A happening is a performance, event or situation meant to be considered as an art, usually as performance art. Happenings take place anywhere (from basements to studio lofts and even street alleyways), are often multi-disciplinary, with a nonlinear narrative and the active participation of the audience.”
Multi-disciplinary? Does that mean they’re gonna get in trouble for doing dis? Nah.
Die Atomkraftwerke in Deutschland sollen im Schnitt 12 Jahre länger am Netz bleiben als nach dem bisherigen Atomkonsens.
Konrad Kujau is the only original in this story, folks. Remember him? He’s the forger who authored those hilarious Hitler Diaries way back when. You know, the ones with the wrong initials on the cover?
Anyway, a woman in Dresden claiming to be his great niece has topped him, sort of, by having been given a two-year suspended sentence for forging his (the forger’s) signature on forgeries of masterpieces that weren’t forged by him (they were Asian import forgeries) and then selling them for the genuine amount of €300,000.
Though clearly marked as fakes, Kujau’s newfound fame meant that people were willing to pay up to €3,500 for his work.
This time here in Berlin, as we speak, so-to-speak. And with peace, I must assume. Or with art, which is even better, I guess. So like I’m there, dude. After all, I had absolutely no idea that there is “incredible violence and abuse going on in the world now” and that “instead of just putting that reality under the rug and just forgetting about it, we have to face it.”
She means the 9/11 anniversary event(s) tomorrow, right? Or the Taliban? American football? Driving on German autobahns? How about the evolutionary process i.e. nature and natural selection itself? Hard to say for sure. Egal (doesn’t matter), let’s just face it – and “face it”, whatever that means.
Titled “Das Gift” — a play on the word’s meaning in English, a present, and German, poison — the exhibit opened in Berlin Friday. The 77-year-old artist told The Associated Press she hoped it would force viewers to confront violence without losing hope.
PS: Did I ever tell you that I don’t get art? Not that I needed to.
in the face of threats from Islamist fanatics.” That’s strange, I thought they did that kind of thing all the time.
Anyways, Angela Merkel will be speaking tonight at the M100 Media Prize award ceremony in which Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard will be honored.
You know, for freedom of the press or something like that? That’s right, this is the guy who drew some cartoons a few years back that offended Muslims worldwide because they, well, actually, I still don’t really see why. But maybe that’s just me.
And now, five years later, the Chancellor of Germany, “by having her photo taken next to Kurt Westergaard,” will be taking “a huge risk.” Hey, no risk no fun, right?
“Die Auszeichnung Westergaards ist in dieser aufgeladenen und erhitzten Zeit hochproblematisch.”
It was 50 years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play (whoever he was). In Hamburg, of all places.
50 years? Wasn’t it more like 500 years ago? Was that really the same planet?
“Incredible though it may seem, today it will be 50 years ago to the day since the band played the first of what, during the course of five separate visits over the next two and a half years, would be 281 concerts in Hamburg.”
“Their work rate was phenomenal – at one point in 1961 they played for 98 nights in succession, frequently starting at 7pm and going through until 7am. They learnt how to survive on their wits, their flair for improvisation, their innate cockiness – and on a steady stream of uppers.”
But now she’s found.
Nina Hagen singing gospels? Why on earth (and elsewhere) not?
Nina Hagen findet ihren „Personal Jesus“
“I can’t give it away on Fifth Avenue.”
But here in Berlin it’s, uh, anders (different).
Boo, or something.
Berlin Fashion Week: The Good, the Bad, and the Terrifying
Boy are they ever making gaudy BMWs these days.
I want one.
The car is a BMW M3 GT2 racecar that will compete in the 24 Hours of Le Mans from June 12-13.
David delivered. And now he’s left the Hof.
Doch die konfusen Bewegungen und ungeschickten Lippenbewegungen bestätigten seine eigenen Worte: “Ich glaube, ich werde zu alt für so was.”
Observing Hermann 