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Appropriate Mourning - Chris Farmer

Chris Farmer — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:00:53 GMT

Where does the line get drawn?

The passing of Patriarch Pavle, for whom all the respect paid to his memory was and is well deserved, allowed for some rather questionable decisions on the side of the government and media in Serbia.

The Horribly Slow Murderer - Srđan Mitrović

Srđan Mitrović — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:00:03 GMT

with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon

The sun is down - Spiridon

Spiridon — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:00:17 GMT

Skammdegisthunglyndi - Chris Farmer

Chris Farmer — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:00:09 GMT

In Iceland, they have a name for it.

It is the feeling of seasonal depression when the days start getting short and nights start coming sooner. "Skamm" means short, "degi" is day, "thung" is heavy and "lyndi" means mood.

Skammdegisthunglyndi

Jean Cristoph from East Berlin - Jasmina Tesanovic

Jasmina Tesanovic — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:00:05 GMT

Last night we celebrated with Jean Cristoph the fall of the wall . This is his story, JT

My memories of November 9th, 2009

It was a very dark Thursday night. I was one of the first few hundred who waited at the checkpoint Bornholmer Strasse to go and see West Berlin.

And here's why:

When the Wall Came Down - BebaOdLonchara

BebaOdLonchara — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:00:32 GMT

I was there when the Wall came down on November 9th, 1989. On the very evening the changes were announced on East German Radio, I was sitting on a tour bus that was taking students of the Cologne Musikhochschule to Berlin. At the time, I was studying composition with Prof. Krzysztof Meyer who had set up an exchange with the Berlin Hochschule der Künste (now Universität der Künste). For this, the composers from his class as well as a few other musicians embarked on this trip, for which I had just completed a new piece in 17-tone equal temperament (later named Two Cartoons) and had the whole bus wait for me as I had problems saving the last, definitive version of the piece.

Watching Baseball - Chris Farmer

Chris Farmer — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:00:24 GMT

When the umpire shouts "Play Ball!" at the beginning of the game, the players react by standing still. Nine guys waiting to bat. Nine guys standing ready in the field. A lot of standing.

The World Series of Baseball is underway between the 2008 champion Philadelphia Philies and the 26-series winning New York Yankees. And while I do not think I am the only one in Serbia to be watching the Series, the club seems to be rather small...

Supposably NATO - Chris Farmer

Chris Farmer — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:00:21 GMT

When people say "supposably" in a sentence, my teeth begin to grind. In the same way, every time I hear people - intelligent people, educated people, intellectual people - using the term "NATO Pact," my head starts to throb. Right there behind the eyes.

Just to be clear: it is called a "pact" because it is an agreement. It is called the Warsaw Pact because it was signed in Warsaw.