> Take your partner by the hand…. Mainz has a touch of promiscuity when it comes to partnering. They seem to chat up any likely looking talent and then…
> James Rizzi must have been in the army. Where else would he come up with the principle: “If it moves, salute it. If it doesn’t move, paint it” This…
> Yesterday was Assumption Day, a feast day (a Holy Day of Obligation, actually, so it appears to be fairly major) in the Roman Catholic church. On the market in…
> Excellent educational stuff spread around outside the Gutenberg Museum. BIG chunks of wood with individual letters carved out in mirror typeface, with the printing surface stained black to simulate…
> The German Nibelungen and the corresponding Old Norse form Niflung (Niflungr) is the name in Germanic and Norse mythology of the royal family or lineage of the Burgundians who…
> “It was GREAT” I said to Ms jb. “You would have hated it, though…” Just got back from the 10th annual International Hako Races in Dexheim. A HaKo is…
> Yet another antique car rally in Mainz yesterday. On occasions like this, I truly do have problems with that “Thou shalt not covet” commandment, especially when there are MkII…
Remember Igor Mamonov, the absentee ballet dancer? There’s a sequel. Ms jb, feeling that her friend Ingrid (Frank the Potter‘s missus) had been hard done by in missing Act 2,…
>I know a couple of professors. One of them is fairly new at the job, so he hasn’t cottoned on to the fact that you have to constantly wail and…
>This Euro 2008 business is getting out of hand. The local boys have barely reached the semi-finals and there are flags everywhere and excessive public enjoyment and whathaveyou. They’re also…
>They didn’t have to go to all that trouble, you know. Big festival, hundreds of thousands of people, bands, fireworks last night. Just because it’s my patronal saint’s day. What?…
>Trinkhallen (drinking halls) are ubiquitous in Germany. One of the ones close to the Hauptbahnhof in Mainz definitely leaves its mark, though. Patrons flip off their bottle caps onto the…
>Or Schobbeschteschää in the local dialect. (Someone’s going to correct me on that one..) The statue of the prototypical Mainz wine drinker graces the green patch between the Schönbornerhof and…
>Mixed marriages are tricky things at the best of times, but sporting events tend to apply unusual stress to any relationship. We don’t have a problem at our place –…
>There’s some seriously underdeveloped talent around here if this painted window at the Nieder-Olm Primary School is anything to go by. All that’s missing is a goat playing a violin…
>…and we should act accordingly” Thus spoke Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian architect, painter, conservationist and visionary. Or nutter, decidely a few bolied eggs short of a picnic and away with the…
>Seeing the church spire and the satellite dish immediately made me think of the wonderful Richard Feynman and his “Inconceivable nature of Nature” YouTube clip. Watch the entire 5:44 and…
>Figure this. If it hadn’t been for Johannes Gutenberg, we probably wouldn’t have been able to read the signs on the buildings behind his statue. We’d still be identifying services…
>I’m all at 6’s and 7’s over this. This being Mainz’s new Kunsthalle (literally: art hall) which officially opened at the weekend and attracted throngs, including some rather inept avant-garde…
>Mrs jb and Frank the Potter‘s wife, Ingrid, toddled off to the ballet in the Staatstheater in Mainz (foyer above) yesterday evening, leaving Frank and I with instructions of a)…
>The Kunsthalle opened in Mainz on Saturday, more of which later during the week. More people than you could shake a stick at yesterday (was going to write “every bastard…
>…between art and vandalism. The eye of the beholder, as usual….. Adelaide, Australia by Gordon, Albuquerque (NM), USA by Helen, Aliso Viejo (CA), USA by Rodney, American Fork (UT), USA…
>“The Queen” ,in this case, is a very regal rubber duckie and a (the?) central figure in Kerstin Agger‘s “Die Königin reist” project. Kerstin’s an artist based in Bad Münster…
> I was never quite sure what these conical structures on the Tritonplatz were. Cold war-era missile silos that weren’t dug quite deep enough, exposing the nosecones to the elements?…
>All over for another year. Thank goodness for small mercies…. Tags: Mainz, Karneval
>There is a world outside Karneval… Take your pick from musicals, serious clubbing or disco. The Tiroler’s the place to go if you’re a bit hard up – your bird’ll…
>Fassenacht has a number of distinct milestones. There’s Rosenmontag – Rose Monday – of course, which is the culmination of the madness, before everyone settles down for Ash Wednesday, Lent…
>….my mate Johannes. Johannes Gutenberg, that is.Fat chance of that, though Bloody Karneval, more likely… The other 135… Portland (OR), USA – Menton, France – Monte Carlo, Monaco – Memphis…
>So that’s where they all were – watching the Guggenmusik bands. Guggenmusik originally came – as most good things do… – from the pagan ritual of blowing cows’ horns to…
>…with soapy water, young man….! “You can buff our pieces, you can catch our asses, but you can never destroy our brand. So @*%& you” Elsewhere. Some inspired taggers have…
>I guess you have to have Karneval in your DNA to get enthused about – if not addicted – to the whole hooha. I’ve checked all my chromosome pairs. Not…
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