I want to fly into your airspace
I’m going to miss the Sarah Palin jokes. Here’s a twist: Q: What’s closer to us, the moon or Moscow? A: The moon, of course. After all, Sarah Palin got it wrong. We can’t see Moscow. (Thanks for the joke, Kathrin!)
Angels only need apply
Thinking about applying for work in the Obama administration? Go to Change.gov, but make sure your halo is brightly polished. The questionnaire being sent to hopeful candidates is the most extensive ever used by a new administration in Washington. (See article in the New York Times) Excerpts:
Munich concert tonight: Rose of Sharon
The Phoenix Ensemble Munich will be performing a program of 18th and 19th century American Music tonight Bayerisches National Museum, Prinregentenstrasse 3. Introduction to the music at 6 p.m. Concert at 7 p.m. Tickets at the door. Background (in German):
Knigge and me
It’s pretty funny to find yourself being quoted on the internet. I’ve written articles for the Sekretärinnen Handbuch, and the academy run by Claudia Hovermann and her team has become an important partner for compact seminars. Now a Google Alert tells me that tips I wrote for them have been quoted in Der Große Knigge. […]
BigDialog: Ask the President-Elect
http://www.BigDialog.org, a cross-partisan partnership of academics, bloggers, and e-communities invites President-Elect Barack Obama to answer the people’s questions. The eCitizen Foundation (a Massachusetts non-profit) along with its partners and supporters, including Bill Mitchell of MIT and Lawrence Lessig of Stanford, are asking people to pose and prioritize text and video questions for Mr. Obama. The […]
The Verve: Bitter Sweet Symphony
An indie anthem from another era, written and sung by by the Verve‘s Richard Ashcroft, with a strings loop sample from an orchestral version of the Stone’s “The Last Time”. Ashcroft sings “I’m here in my mold / I can’t change my mold”. His wife Kate Radley has a walk-on part in the video: As […]
David Sedaris ex post
A wonderful evening at Literaturhaus. Sedaris is not only a masterful comic writer, he is also charming, approachable, real. And he loves to autograph books. He read from his newest one, “When You are Engulfed in Flames” (also available as an audio book or in German, “Schöner wird’s nicht“), which I can warmly recommend. What […]
