Hello, scholars
The Old Spice guy kicks it up a notch.
Pain!
The best foul of the tournament so far:
Today’s game, which starts at 2:30 for those of you on the East coast, just might be the most hotly contested of the tournament. Go Deutschland!
Israeli settlements, summarized
Jewish state, settlements, national honor and justice, pick two.
Großstadt
Just got back from my second visit to Berlin. It’s now clear: on my list of favorite cities, this is the one to beat. I don’t think it ever will, but we’ll see what Prague, Los Angeles, and Shanghai have to say.
Karnival in Kreuzberg. 20th century art in the Neue Nationalgalerie, 21st in Kunsthaus Tacheles. Glass of wine at the Fernsehnturm just before midnight, three hundred meters above Alexanderplatz. Introduced to friends of people I met last time around. Found the house where Lola runs. Cycled over the Wall, under the Tor, through the shade of Tiergarten and Shönberg. Learned to tell the difference between the West and the East–it’s all in the architecture. Danced till the sun came up. You know that LCD Soundsystem lyric? True.
Berlin! Die Stadt! Die meine Liebe hat!
Ein Date mit der Straße
U.S. Government to citizens in Germany: stay the f*** out of Kreuzberg.
Pretty much what they told me:
This warden message is being sent to alert Americans living and
traveling in Germany about the upcoming May 1 Labor Day holiday and the
potential for isolated unrest in Germany. The May 1 holiday (and the
preceding night) has traditionally witnessed large scale protests and
wide-spread vandalism in certain areas of Berlin and other cities in
Germany. These protests are often accompanied by clashes between
demonstrators and police, as well as property damage, burning of cars,
and minor looting. While largely confined to the Kreuzberg neighborhood
of Berlin, acts of violence have spread in the past few years to other
Berlin neighborhoods. There is potential for similar violence and
property damage in other large cities. Berlin police expect an increase
in violence, and there will also be an NPD (neo-Nazi party)
demonstration taking place this year in the Pankow area with a large
number of anti-demonstrators and expected clashes.The U.S. Government is urging its employees and family members to avoid
the following neighborhoods in Berlin and Hamburg from the night of
April 30 and through Sunday morning May 2:Berlin: Kreuzberg, Pankow, Mitte (southeast portion), Prenzlauerberg
(Mauerpark area)Hamburg: Sternschanzen area and the area around the Rote Flora on
Schulterblatt.[...]
This email is UNCLASSIFIED.
They forgot to mention the entire former GDR. If all goes well I’ll have some photos of Erfurt’s Nazi scum and a bunch of pissed off punks yelling at them.
If all goes not well I’ll be sitting in a German prison with an ice pack on my face and, hopefully, a “you should see the other guy” smile.
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