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Bringing Down the House
Guten Tag, everyone. Here’s some unusual news from the Fatherland. It’s been noted that Germans have a thing for planning and strategy. A group of German men took such inclinations to extremes yesterday, forcefully exiting celebrity poker tournament Promi-Poker-Tournier with the winner’s share — an excess of 800,000€ ($1 million USD) — after having laid [...]
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Kids These Days
Posted by Nicholas Farrell on Mon, Mar 1, 2010
Greetings from the Fatherland! I love the directness of Germans, even when asserting the need for a parenting guide. Translation: What’s next, dear parents? [Editor's note: my guess is dyeing her hair blue in a hostel group toilet with bad Euro techno blaring and a guy named Otto mainlining antifreeze the next stall over.]
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We’re Here, We Play Soccer, Get Used to It.
Posted by Nicholas Farrell on Tue, Feb 16, 2010
As a follow-up of sorts to my piece on Robert Enke and mental illness in the game of football (soccer), I encourage readers to have a look at Patrick Barkham’s Guardian story from this past week on the unspoken presence of homosexuality and homophobia in the world’s game. Barkham provides a brief history of sexuality in the European [...]
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A Novel in Words, Sounds and Images.
Posted by Nicholas Farrell on Wed, Jan 13, 2010
Just thinking it not fair to write about the cold, dark Berlin winter while on vacation in mild, sunny San Francisco, your friendly Contrarian Teutonic correspondent is back in the Fatherland and ready with more stories from the Continent. As with most creative arts, musicians have been known to occasionally dabble in the fields other than [...]
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Die Besten von 2000s
Posted by Nicholas Farrell on Tue, Dec 1, 2009
I spent part of the decade in America, part in Berlin, where I currently serve as The Contrarian’s Teutonic Correspondent. Not sure how my continent-hopping affected my choices, if at all. Regardless, here they are for your consideration. ———————————————— 1. Frightened Rabbit, Midnight Organ Fight (2008) This is love, and sometimes it hurts. 2. Broken Social Scene, You Forgot [...]
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