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Obscene Desserts: Hotel art #12

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Life Death. And many things in between. Thursday, February 19, 2015. Part of an occasional series. Kissimmee, Florida, USA (February 2015). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Broadcasting from southwestern Germany since 2006. NEW BLOG ON NEW BOOK. A fascinating real-life murder story.' - Steven Pinker. Sometimes life is better than fiction.' - The Guardian. And other other book. On "Panzerschokolade" and other fun German inventions. Fremdscham is the new Schadenfreude. Were still riding the nostalgia tr...

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Obscene Desserts: QED

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Life Death. And many things in between. Thursday, January 15, 2015. Thank you, Pope Francis: This. Settles the matter, then, whether Islamist terror is a religious issue. Because - as you have made so perfectly clear with your tasteless intervention - it is (though it has to be emphasised, of course, that all religious orthodoxies have committed heinous crimes). And while we're at it, Angela Merkel. Another reason why free speech must be defended at all cost. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Not least...

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Obscene Desserts: The dragons are already slain

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Life Death. And many things in between. Friday, November 07, 2014. The dragons are already slain. An entertaining performance at the Bundestag today in an event related to the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It helps if you speak German, but if not, Alex Harrowell has provided a description and a few highlights in English at A Fistful of Euros. Where do we start here? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Broadcasting from southwestern Germany since 2006. NEW BLOG ON NEW BOOK. One of the m...

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Obscene Desserts: What do they know of breathing who only breathing know?

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Life Death. And many things in between. Thursday, July 09, 2015. What do they know of breathing who only breathing know? While going through issues of The Christian News-Letter. From 1945, I ran across a positive review of Arthur Koestler. S The Yogi and the Commissar. It quoted, rather inexactly, parts of the following passage, which I found elsewhere. And which is quite striking. Arthur Koestler, "The End of an Illusion" 1944. Collected in The Yogi and the Commissar. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Obscene Desserts: On "Panzerschokolade" and other fun German inventions

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Life Death. And many things in between. Friday, May 31, 2013. On "Panzerschokolade" and other fun German inventions. Not least because a couple of friends have pointed me to it, I thought I would pass along a reference to this fascinating little article. From the English-language version of Spiegel Online. That explores the origins of 'crystal meth', finding it in late 1930s Germany. Who were suddenly capable of impressive productivity despite being short on sleep. Pointing out that, in the early 20th ce...

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Obscene Desserts: Be true to your school

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Life Death. And many things in between. Monday, June 22, 2015. Be true to your school. So there I am, on my birthday, somewhere in my mid-40s, and already feeling a bit nostalgic for my youth and the place I come from. And then I see: yesterday Charlie Sheen launched an attack not only on his ex-wife - Denise Richards - but also on the town in which she grew up. That we happen to share. As reported in the " Downers Grove Patch. As the article notes, Denise herself has had some kind things to say about he...

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Obscene Desserts: The contemporary condition #3

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Life Death. And many things in between. Saturday, February 28, 2015. The contemporary condition #3. Nick Cohen, at the Spectator. Amnesty International meanwhile tore up a hard-won reputation for impartiality, it had taken decades to build, just so it could ally with Cage. My friend and comrade Gita Sahgal, the head of Amnesty International’s gender unit in 2010, warned. The rest is also worth reading. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Broadcasting from southwestern Germany since 2006. Today marks twen...

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Obscene Desserts: Special journal issue: Crime Stories

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Life Death. And many things in between. Monday, October 13, 2014. Special journal issue: Crime Stories. I am very pleased to be able to announce that a special issue. Edited by myself and Paul Knepper - "Criminality, Policing and the Press in Inter-war European and Transatlantic Perspectives" - has now left the printers (which I can confirm since I received my copy today). In " Rogues of the Racecourse. Racing Men and the Press in Interwar Britain". In " Two Suspicious Persons. University of Oslo) takes ...

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Obscene Desserts: Forthcoming article on ethnicity and the British criminal justice system, 18th and 19th centuries

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Life Death. And many things in between. Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Forthcoming article on ethnicity and the British criminal justice system, 18th and 19th centuries. I have just noted that an article by myself and Prof. Peter King - "Black People and the Criminal Justice System: Prejudice and Practice in Later Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century London" - has now appeared in an "advance access" version. 52, no. 2 (2013): 390-414. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). NEW BLOG ON NEW BOOK. A fascinating re...