June 15, 2006

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On the air, 17 June 2006

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I’ll be back on the air Saturday morning, June 17, from 6-9 am on Radio 1, 91.9 FM here in Prague. While flying from Amsterdam to San Francisco, I had the good fortune of listening to an excellent special devoted to the life and music of Antonio Carlos Jobim by his son, Pablo. So this [...]  


World Cup: Translating the Czech commentator Jaroslav Bosák

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I wanted to start off by saying that Monday’s World Cup match between the US and the Czech Republic left me with a deep ambivalence that I’m just getting over. The kind of ambivalence you get when your worst enemy goes driving off a cliff in your new sportscar. In a way, I’m glad that [...]  


the manvan rolls on

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Hello.This is officially the most rushed entry everRough travel updateSo now we Cory Jeff and my brother are in Prague after having arrived here this morning in our now infamous manvan. After Gelsenkirchen we made it to Berlin staying one night at drnojoke.de 's a guy I met in Turkey and one in the van...  


70 Cent Soup

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Jeff and I have gone out for a typical Czech lunch a few times lately. Many restaurants in Prague and elsewhere in the Czech Republic have a special lunch menu (usually called polední menu), which is valid during a specific time period - e.g. from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. - and consists of a limited number of...