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Occasional musings, Geistesblitze, photos, drawings etc. by a "resident alien", who has landed on American soil from a far-away planet called "Germany".

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Wild Things in the German Language

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I've made my second eBook in a Kindle version . The book collects my Word-of-the-Month drawings, including several that haven't ...
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Sunday, April 1, 2012

Word of the Month: Gnadenbrot

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Gnade means "grace" or "mercy", and Brot means "bread". The term refers to the charity someone receives in r...
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Friday, March 2, 2012

Found Art Around the World

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I have produced my first ebook, a collection of photographs I took around the world. The underlying message is that "art makes us see t...
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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Word of the Month: Spaltpilz

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Here's another mushroom ( Pilz ), but this one is less endearing than the Glückspilz we dealt with in the past. Spalten means "to...
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Monday, February 27, 2012

Shitstorm hits Germany

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I mentioned briefly in the 'Bout them Germans post (Nov. 2011) that Michael Lewis had alleged a German obsession with excrement—actually...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Word of the Month: Staatsverdrossenheit

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With the present WoM, I'm returning to a theme I have touched upon in previous posts ( Wutbürger , German funk ). This time, I'm in...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Guten Rutsch...

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...("good slide"), that's what my German friends—and some Americans who knew enough German—wished me for New Year's Eve. ...
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