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13 Mar 2010

Haze a la Hoff: A German’s Experience in South Central

We all know that the Hoff is a big deal in Germany. Is it the hair? His voice? The violent hip swiveling? The rad motorcycle?[I got it!]
No American can really figure out why, but oh well. We accept that the country that produced Rammstein and the Tïesto-rrific LoveParade embraces and honors the orange deity known as David Hasselhoff. Then we move on with our lives. The thing that gets me, however, is that such a national idiosyncrasy–the love of a celebrity–can start to become part of the fabric of a nation’s collective being. Part of their identity. Is there a checklist to being a national? If so, the American one would have a lot of unflattering points. As I was told in my time abroad Americans can be identified by their: logo shirts, sneakers, obnoxiousness, sense of entitlement, and loudness.
What is German then?

From young-germany.de

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08 Mar 2010

Baloney has a first name…it’s O-S-C-A-R.

Okay so the title may be a bit misleading (but catchy,right?). To tell you the truth I’m not particularly upset with the way the Oscars went yeseterday because I sat through the whole broadcast. ALL 3 HOURS AND 37 FREAKIN’ MINUTES OF IT.

Oscar

By the end of it my mind was mush and I was simply too bored to fight anything. I couldn’t remember what I would fight about. The few things I did notice were:

1. George Clooney was awfully cranky. Yes, I understand that he was in on the joke at the beginning of the show, but still. Throughout the broadcast the camera would cut to his Royal Sourpussness.

2. The costume design winner was kind of snarky. If you win an award, don’t point out that you have two just like it at home. No matter how much you work that dress, snarky is not a good accessory. In fact, it starts to look an awful lot like something else beginning with a “B”.

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18 Feb 2010

The Best of the Worst

Ever wondered what the most ridiculous book titles this year are? So have the folks at The Bookseller. The idea started with Bruce Robertson, the founder of the The Diagram Group according to www.thebookseller.com

[Robertson] suggested that some of the boredom of the Frankfurt Book Fair(the largest trade fair for literature in the world :::yawn:::) could be abolished (hurrah!) if one traversed its many, many, many, aisles in search of oddly-titled books.

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03 Feb 2010

A Looky Look at the Booky Wook

My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs and Stand-Up by Russell Brand

Harper Collins, 2009

Pages: 368

Reading Time: 2 days

Deya’s Taglines:

@   Rehab is not sexy. Doesn’t mean a boy can’t try.
&    Celebrity is the mother of intervention.
!      Sex. Drugs. Alcohol —>(what else did you expect?)

Cover Art: It’s interesting that Russell Brand (RB) used “Wook” in the title. He does sort of evoke an abnormal sort of Wookie persona here. If I were to meet him I would ask whether he used a Bump-it or did some old fashioned teasing?[1]

Shortcut or the Scenic Route?

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