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Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 5, 2013 at 6:46am

a crisis! I can't find the sky stamp. I shall have to postpone that. Where did it go?? There are 2000 stamps in my folders. Where did it go? It was an erupting volcano with a tiny figure running away from the sky filled with wonderful, colored smoke and ash. The slogan was: VULCANISM MARATHON RUNNER ..i.e. how fast can you run from a volcano, or any other problem in life?

Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 5, 2013 at 4:30am

that's about it. The Daengelschmied name became Dengler in perhaps the 14th century. The Urfolk from my family left from Bruchsal about 1880. There are still relatives but I haven't visited them since perhaps 1950.

Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 5, 2013 at 2:33am

haha! that's a great song! probably speech works off of the song/vocal gesture systems of Africa. That is where the greatest density of sounds is found (and least in the last settled areas of the Pacific and South America). And maybe they wanted to say/sing about some imaginative creature like Nikolaus.

Oh and the Schwaben! That's home for me: der Dangelschmied, is a Dengler, or Swabian scythesmith from the Middle Ages. Yes I did wander about when I was a student in Strasbourg.

Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 3, 2013 at 8:02pm

haha!

I went to Stanford, then to the Freie Univ. Berlin, then to Strasbourg, then to the Univ Paris system, which got closed in 1968. There is a nice picture of me in IL TEMPO, the Italian newsmagazine, with the caption "Piu rosso di Mao". Well, journalism is not always very accurate. I then went to the Univ of Rome, and then to Berkeley. I was interested in the logic of everything, and that took a little time.

Halloween is a season of campy, candy canards for at least this local region in space/time, so I am doing a set of count down to Halloween, and then a few apres, or after Halloween. The theme ends tomorrow, after which I will post a stamp entirely inspired by YOU: the sky stamp. It has sky, and some more story text as well.

Gurken: oh those long cucumbers that you needed for salads & things. They were very long, and very hard, and also hard to find in East Germany, along with men who could spend a lot on girls, so the joke of the day was all about "jetzt kommen wieder die Gurken" or here come all those Turks, Africans, etc to pick up East Berlin girls (Chicks or Chicklettes, which is also the name of a chewing gum, and there were a lot of jokes about boys who could or needed to could learn to do that as lovers). The border guards complained. There was a bit of anti-western propaganda in all of this ("vegetable capitalism").

My VW had Berlin license plates (echt german rather than the oval tourist plates that Westerners usually had). When I drove around East Germany I would get stopped, and queried, and complimented etc.

Wonderful: Naumburger Meister (auch Meister von Naumburg) ist der Notname eines namentlich nicht bekannten Steinbildhauers des Mittelalters. Er wirkte in der Mitte des 13. Jahrhunderts und gilt als einer der Hauptmeister dieser Epoche. Seine Skulpturen zählen zu den bedeutendsten Kunstwerken des europäischen Mittelalters.

Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 3, 2013 at 6:14pm

Halloween is for some Kitschisch (campy); it is candy (suessigkeitheitlichkeit) or eye candy (you can gawk) for some; and there's the canard, joke, critique, witz in all of this.

"campy candy canardism" would some, Hegelian Bummelwitzkitschkommerziale Suessfragende Momentkritik.

I was in Berlin as a student in 1964-1966. The boys would carry over presents ("Gurken" were generic things that poke out of a man's imagination, along with real, long green gurken that would stick out of packages or briefcases they would cross with at the Friedrichsbergstr. station. I had a VW, with echt Berlin plates, but could drive into East Germany. I sometimes went to Altenburg, near Leipzig to deliver PRECIOUS MEDICAL STUDENT TEXTS, to the ....who lived there. Oh what you could do with a free auto in East Germany in those times. There were Mongolian girls and the smart Norwegian medical students who got free room, board, and broad. The Africans of middle age, but on full student scholarship, just about only working on Gurken and bored East German chicklettes. Oh, and I was the only tourist for days to admire the Naumburger meister.

Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 3, 2013 at 2:50pm

I have one more day of campy candy canardism on Halloween. Now what would that be in German? I actually have two years at the Freie Uni Berlin, but what did I learn? How to help the Kurds smuggle Gurken into East Berlin. That was a kind of dating token that seems to have worked with the ladies over there. That's what this stamp is all about: strange growths from Freaky Gifts. See movie Pod people (also known as The Body Snatchers) is a nickname given to an alien
species featured in the 1955 novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney, the ...

Comment by Ian C Dengler on November 3, 2013 at 12:10pm

BAD HALLOWEEN HANDOUTS CONT.
Nothing quite like hiding in the back room with all the lights out on Halloween after you ran out of candy 5 minutes ago. — What about hiding the candy in the first place? No? So many BAD SEED STORIES: Tooth decay typically begins when bacteria in your mouth get excited during Halloween. They increase rapidly in the next 20 to 30 weeks after you eat. ... Slideshow. How Long Does It Have To Last?