So we’ll just steal the balloon stands from last night’s show!
They’re going like hotcakes, folks. Or they went like hotcakes, I should say, before the organizers had a chance to clear all of the 7000 away. And the first ones have shown up on eBay, for crying out loud.
Die Ballon-Halter der Lichtgrenze werden offenbar zum Sammlerobjekt. Einige verschwanden nach der Aktion zum 25. Jahrestag des Mauerfalls noch in der Nacht. Der erste war bei Ebay aufgetaucht.
This wall is your wall,
From Mountain View, California,
To Seoul, Korea,
From Buenos Aires,
To the island of Langeland,
This wall was made for you and me.
That means “the miserable remnants” and that’s what singer-songwriter and former East German dissident Wolf Biermann just called SED leftovers the Left Party today at a ceremony commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall. To their faces. In the Reichstag itself.
Somebody’s got to remind folks about this now and then. Not that anybody here cares…
“Eure Sprüche, die habt ihr drauf … ihr müsst mir gar nichts erzählen.”
I mean Lichtgrenze.
The LICHTGRENZE is the light installation along the former path of the wall through the city center. It will trace the division of the city over a stretch of approximately 12 kilometers and with thousands of illuminated balloons as an impressive installation in Berlin from 8 to 9 November, 2014. At once emotional, poetic, and serious, this installation remembers the recent historical event, the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989.
Why that’s, uh, like more than one oddity per cent!
Sale ends Monday.
And you don’t have to use these new-fangled eReader thingies all the time if you don’t want to, you know. Or maybe you do. Smashwords, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Scribd, etc.
Oh no. Not this lady again.
The latest greatest medical insurance study is out and it is like so totally full of it that I feel like running off to my Arzt (doctor) right this minute to get krankgeschrieben (written up sick) only he’s closed now, of course, which is probably for the best.
Anyway, this study claims that one out of three Berliners is mentally ill! One out of three? Can you believe that bullshit? Anybody who lives here knows that it’s two-thirds easy.
In Berlin waren mehr als 34 Prozent und in Brandenburg knapp 29 Prozent der erwerbstätigen Versicherten im Jahr 2012 von einer psychischen Erkrankung betroffen. Auch die Zahl der Krankschreibungen wegen Depressionen und anderer psychischer Leiden war in Berlin weitaus höher als im Bundesdurchschnitt.
They’re either demolishing automobiles in a place called Wiesental…
Or playing the lead role in an opera at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Like, a real goat. I don’t make this stuff up, people.
But I got to tell you that the really bizarre thing about this goat protagonist gig thing is that it isn’t even an original idea:
Dinorah was performed in New York (at the Academy of Music) in Italian on 24 November 1862. As a novelty, it attracted a great deal of attention and (starring the now nearly forgotten Angelina Cordier) was much “ballyooed”. One of its attractions was to be the appearance of an actual, live goat on stage, which “inspired a vast dissemination of facetious goat-lore in all the papers.”
It’s a gallery… It’s a shopping center… It’s the Super-Mall (of Berlin)!
Oh boy, another mall. I’m outta here (not).
A gigantic German department store, rebuilt in the heart of Berlin on the rubble of a shopping center seized by the Nazis, was opened on Thursday with a ceremony paying tribute to its original Jewish owners.
The near 1 billion euro ($1.3 billion) “Mall of Berlin” — an entire quarter with a glass-covered arcade, 270 shops, a hotel and flats — marks the spot where the Wertheim store was built in 1896.
Edward Snowden, that is. Here in Germany, I mean.
In Germany, the new Che Guevara wears glasses instead of a beret, wields a computer rather than a shotgun, and is popping up on the streets of the German capital in graffiti, posters, and T-shirts.
501 German Oddities. No way. Is that all there are?
And you don’t have to read all about them on these new-fangled eReader thingies all the time, you know. Or do you? Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, etc.
