“Get your carnival parade badge here!!! Carneval’s not Carneval if you don’t wear a parade (Zug – dialect: Zuch) badge (Plakette – dialect: Plakettcher) and the various carnival clubs are…
The annual ceramics market in Alzey last weekend. I’ve helped them with social media and marketing strategy stuff and it seems to be working quite well. Place was packed on…
As is the old German custom, we also have this plant on our front step. Supposed to keep evil spirits at…er…bay. *Julius Caesar Act 4 Scene 2
The characters: Ferdinand – King of Navarre Lord Berowne – attending on the King (also spelt Biron) Lord Longaville – attending on the King (also spelt Longueville) Lord Dumaine –…
Patrick and Ross at the Golden Bear brewery on Mapua wharf. At 7%, it’s sure to give you Delirium Tremors. Or whatever they call it…..
Michael Kinzer as Richard III said Andreas Koch, the director in his introduction to Zettel’s Theater‘s superb performance of Richard III last Friday at the Geromont vineyard in Oestrich-Winkel. “But…
Didn’t know that Marc Chagall was a drinking man, but why else would he smuggle a serving wench carrying 2 decent sized glasses of ale into one of his windows…
Kultcha with a capital “K” Answers (as usual) on a €100 note. Solution tomorrow.
The annual exhibition of Mme Carambolage‘s (Annemarie Kijaszek)and Britta Jung’s work at the restored tithe barn in Stadecken-Elsheim. Lord Mayor made a speech (seemed a trifle miffed at the lack…
The difference between the New World and the Old World. At one of those restaurants in Concord, NH where you’re navigated to your table by a young flossy who is…
Apart from the fact that iceberg has mold on it and looks suspiciously like Hessen on the opposite bank of the Rhine from Weisenau and neither Winslett nor DiCaprio were…
The German language has some heroically long words – Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz, for example. It also has some that are exquisite in their succinctness and challenging in their resistance to simple translation…
The things one learns… There’s a film, an obscure German band and an extremely resource-rich form of ancient excommunication. 12 priests, a culprit and a grievous crime. Things were fairly…
A quote from Heinrich von Kleist‘s letter to Adolphine von Werdeck stretching through the shrubbage on the Schillerplatz and advertising the 3rd SWR Literature Night (tomorrow night), one of the…
Historical stuff, this…. “Typesetting and Design” Typesetting machine knowledge” “The serigraph manual” In 30 years, we (you, actually, I’ll have fallen off the perch by then…) will stumble over…
Rampant cubism on display in one of the City of Science installations.
Easy to pick out in the Johannisnacht crowds. Dressed against the weather. Barbour, Timberland, Jack Wolfskin et al. All streaming in the same direction down the Augustinerstrasse as we grabbed…
> Tagged along with Mrs jb yesterday to the Augustinerkirche (St Augustine’s) in the – yes – Augustinerstrasse. Riotously decorated with angels, cherubims and seraphims perched on ledges all around…
> Charles Knie’s Big Top on the horizon in Hechtsheim. Image signed in the foreground by an errant moped on a farm track “Wild Billy’s Circus Story” spring[steen]s to mind
> Am I ever glad that Annette Ludwig has taken over as Director of the Gutenberg Museum! Talk about a breath of fresh air!Talk about innovation!Talk about getting information published…
> Not bad getting a road named after you. Or a square, even.
> Where are you going with that cake?” Scene from the Villa Musica hoolie last year. Tilt-shifted with this here thingie
> … they changed his name to Bacchus.* Just try saying “Dionysus” when you’re ripped. Waaay too many sullabills sollybulls sabbalabs syllables *Dionysus was the god of the grape harvest,…
> A sad display for potential drinkers at a run-down bar in a run-down part of town
> ..and other Festive Illusions. It’s all going to be my fault, of course. We rocked on down into the Big Smoke last night for a Christmas concert in the…
Or sculpture. The interest in yesterday’s post incented me to rock into the Big Smoke this am and do some research. Results: 1. They’re not concrete (for those who…
This would appear to be the Moguntian equivalent of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Take your favourite book and squish it in the wet concrete. Keeps your hands from…
> (book)worm turns… I’m a sucker for bookshops. I’ll look at a book I’ve never heard of about a subject of which I have zero knowledge (lots of those…) and…
> Donald Duck and Co flee from the higher strata of culture represented by the State TheatRE in the background. Postscript: Curious readers ask “What are THEY doing there?”Answer: Merry-go-round…
> …is in there somewhere….. Reminds me of the Frenchman who lost his beret in a cow paddock and tried on 4 before he found one that fit….. Happy Halloween
> This here guy’s a magician. At the Fellow Citizens Festival the other day/week/month. Pour various coloured oils onto water. Make patterns. Carefully plop a sheet of paper onto the…
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