Goodbye Lenin

Eastern Europe night. I went to a union meeting and came home to eat pierogie with onion cooked in bacon grease and drink beer, while watching Goodbye Lenin. I'll finish an article on beer branding in post-socialist Georgia shortly.

Taking a two-minute break to watch mud wrestling from Ukraine.

Tilos az a

Macedonian bear convicted for theft of honey.

"For a while, he kept the animal away by buying a generator, lighting up the area, and playing thumping Serbian turbo-folk music."


. . . In other news, a Czech scientist determines that beer drinking is negatively correlated with academic productivity and the likelihood that your article will be cited by your peers.

Those of you with institutional access (and therefore a vested interest in the results, of course!) can view the Grim news here.