Once again, a pitch for English Club Dresden Neustadt. We meet every Wednesday evening at a different locale in the Neustadt and rap in English. We make other meetings as they arise.
Our humble yet quickly growing board is found (for the time being) at this domain here.
Just in time for Reformation Day, archaeologists have found Martin Luther’s crapper, where he was when his 95 feces came to him.
Sam Lender, bagel tycoon, died last week at 84. Guess what I’m a-doing tonight.
Lender and his brother invented a flash freezing process for bagels, making bagels accessible any day of the weeks for WASPs everywhere.
some scans for the z1.2 crowd… here
A wall painting at a Sp?ti near you — or: how I made fifty bucks in three days, but at least I got to keep the leftover paint.
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Courtesy of the Progressive Review
PATRIOTISM quotes
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above
principles — George Nathan
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“The poet is truly the thief of fire.” — Arthur Rimbaud, born today in 1854. Garrison writes:
He entered a regional poetry contest
at the age of fifteen, where he was supposed to spend several hours
composing a poem for the judges. He slept through the first three
hours, then ate a meal, and wrote his poem a few minutes before time
was called. His poem won the competition.
Finally getting down to business at the TU tomorrow morning. And I’ve really got to get this page back in shape.
Just a few quick note to my L1 kids:
–See that link to the right that says “presentation guidelines”? Ignore that. That’s not for y’all.
–If you are on the waiting list, show up anyway.
–If for some reason you didn’t sign up at all, show up anyway.
–Make sure the email address you supplied LSK online is correct and you check it regularly.
It’s Schooltime yet again
And I ought point out a few things… See those links to the right–>
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Well, that pdf what with the presentation business only counts still for my L2.2 kids. My L1.1 chillun don’t have no presentation this semester. They only need worry about that reading comprehension test in January.
As for the book–yep –follow the link and declare yo’ country… That’s still–unfortunately– the book we’ll be using, among other materials… It won’t be so bad this year.
But just you wait until we get into that Japanese internet schoolgirl porn section… D’oh! Just fooling… that doesn’t come until the Z1…