African duo Didier Drogba and Samuel Eto’o have been named on the final shortlist of 10 for the 2009 European Player of the Year award…. From BBC News. Full story

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The nominees are as follows:

Burberry, Mulberry and Pringle of Scotland nominated for the Designer Brand award.

Graeme Fidler for Aquascutum, Kim Jones for Dunhill, and Todd Lynn nominated for Menswear Designer.

Christopher Kane, Erdem, and Jonathan Saunders nominated for the BFC British Collection of the Year.

Emma Hill for Mulberry, Katie Hillier, and Nicholas Kirkwood nominated for the Accessory Designer.

Mark Fast, Meadham Kirchhoff, and Peter Pilotto nominated for Emerging Talent Award for Ready-to-Wear,

Holly Fulton, Camilla Stovgaard, Jessica McCormack, and Maria Francesca Pepe are nominated for the Emerging Talent Award for Accessories.

Models Georgia May Jagger, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Daisy Lowe are nominated for Model of the Year.

 I’m quite excited to hear about this, especially the emerging designers category as they were on my blog as ones-to-watch.  My fingers are crossed for Meadham Kirchhoff, they’re in the top three of my favorite designers.

With the exception of Ms. Jagger – whom I love – I’m not crazy about the model selection. I wish they would have considered Jourdan Dunn but she’s probably on her way out of the business considering she’s pregnant.

I believe Mulberry deserves this. They pulled off a coup with their Apple collaboration.

I wonder how Holly feels about the accessories mention. While she got her break as accessories designer for Lanvin, she’s working really hard to build a womenswear atelier.

Well, with all that said, fingers crossed!

These are my top 5 programs that will bring out the inner geek in you and your Apple Mac.

• Geekbench
Geekbench is a benchmarking tool, as the name suggests. It’s free and can be downloaded onto most current Macs. Close all applications and it’ll measure the power. Then compete with a friend!

• Google Earth
OK – this might seem really, really obvious, but it isn’t. You see, on its own, Earth is a great tool for everyone, but under the Tools menu there is a realistic flight simulator game. It requires great skill and precision!

• Grapher
A graph drawing program simply built in to OS X. It’s under Utilities. Most people have never heard of it (but you had).

• Lockdown
A freebie (you can see where I’m going here) that locks down a Mac and whenever someone does anything to it, it sounds an alarm which is immutable, flashes the screen, emails a photo of the intruder and requires the correct paired Apple Remote to unlock. Applies to USB, keyboard, mouse, laptop power leads, FireWire, WiFi, whatever… And customisable too.

• Deeper
Use this utility to change many, many hidden settings on a Mac. You might want to modify the login screen’s information, change window minimisation behaviour, or a whole host of other things.

Enjoy! All are free – to the best of my knowledge – and all can be found on Sourceforge or via Google, if your Mac doesn’t have them already…

I found this gallery of shortlisted photos for the “Digital Camera Photographer of the Year 2009: This is Britain” competition on the Daily Telegraph web site.

The first picture, Fuel Girls, a booze-up (as we used to call it) puts me off going to Britain for my holidays. Maybe it’s technically good and very “street” but it’s also gross!

#2 – Just a Shower is wonderfully humourous, but there are rain spots on the lens. Surely that’s a no-no? Or does that make it “authentic” in the eyes of the judges?

#5 – Food Lovers – a mosaic of people eating is gross too. But that was probably the photographer’s intent.

#9 – Pier caught my eye but I don’t like the way the lamp hides one of the divers’ feet.

#16 – Cool Britannia looks over-sharpened – or the man has a skin disease.

#21 – Wayne is good black and white “street” albeit not candid. I wonder if it was shot with a Leica.

#26 – Frozen Intensity is excellent “street”. The police officer’s fixed, almost robotic, expression is scary. I would not have dared get that close in to a demonstration.

#27 – Rain. I cannot believe this is a shortlisted picture. There must be a million rain splattered pictures of a grey London from the London Eye on Flickr alone. What is special about this one?

#32 – A Day at the Beach must be posed or the rain was added in Photoshop, surely? It’s a cliche anyway.

#33 – A Kiss in Time is boring street. Not enough contrast and more focus on the station departure board than the lovers.

Overall I thought they were a bit depressing. I bet entries from the USA would be a lot more positive.

The winners will be announced in early December 2009 and they’ll be exhibited at The Mall Galleries, London from the 9th to the 13th of December. I think I’ll skip it.

La prensa gratuita suele funcionar muy bien entre los usuarios de transportes públicos. Al ser Londres una ciudad tan propicia a la utilización de autobús o metro, aquí encuentran un hueco numerosos diarios y revistas que sobreviven con la publicidad que insertan en sus páginas.

Los diarios grautitos más conocidos, que se publican sólo los días laborables, son Metro y London Lite. Hay muchos más, como el que recibo cada quince días en el buzón de mi casa: Hackney Today, el noticiario de mi barrio: “the paper for all Hackney people“.

En las últimas semanas ha hecho aparición un nuevo protagonista en la prensa a cero libras. En realidad es un periódico vespertino de larga tradición, pues se publica desde el siglo XVIII: The Evening Standard. Hasta principios de octubre se vendía por 50 peniques. Pero casi el mismo día que me instalé en Londres, el Standard dejó de cobrar y pasó a ser ofrecido a coste cero en bocas de metro y calles concurridas. Su calidad es ligeramente superior a los gratuitos habituales, pero no es ajeno al amarillismo de la prensa barata inglesa. Aún así, se ha convertido en uno de mis periódicos habituales en el día. Normalmente lo leo durante el regreso a casa en el transporte público. Y si vuelvo con mi bici, suelo leerlo antes o después de cenar. Me gustan los diarios vespertinos; ojalá nunca los hubiéramos perdido en España.

Entre las revistas de distribución gratuita hay una que valoro: Shortlist. Se reparte cada jueves. Es difícil caminar por el centro de Londres ese día y no encontrar un repartidor que te ofrezca un ejemplar. El pilar de la revista son los listados que publican sobre temas diversos: The UK’s Top 10 Best Date Bars, 10 online dating tips, 7 alternative Valentine’s gifts, y chorradas parecidas. Normalmente son temas referentes a la cultura británica o a intereses londinenses. Se reparte a culaquier persona que alargue su brazo hacia el repartidor pero su público objetivo es el hombre que habita en Londres –aunque la revista tenga vocación nacional; se reparte en las diez principales ciudades británicas- y tiene entre 25 y 45 años: That’s me!

El lema de Shortlist es elocuente: “For men with more than one thing on their minds”. Pensé en ello y puedo dar fe de que yo soy uno de esos hombres que tienen más de una cosa en la mente. Pero no logré averiguar qué es exactamente lo que ocupa la cabecita de aquellos otros que sólo piensan en una cosa. ¿Se os ocurre qué puede ser?

I agree with this man. Let me explain…

Really enjoyed the Jack Dee interview in the current issue of Shortlist, and this quote towards the end in particular: “Technology needs to slow down. In fact, no more inventions for a bit, by anyone… Stop bombarding me with these new f*cking ideas – you’re really f*cking with my head now.”

We’re all at it. Most travel companies have now embraced social media. Twitter is no longer a dirty word (even Heathrow is now at it), chief executives are writing decent blogs, and social networking is being used extensively across marketing and customer relations.

We’ve basically caught up with our American cousins. That’s great. But it looks like it could get silly, and we need to calm down, and not use technology just for the sake of it.

New applications are being thrown at us at an alarming rate. Most we can catch as they wizz by, but Google seems to be chucking new things at us every week. Yesterday I read it had broken into the Sat Nav market, massively denting share prices of TomTom and Garmin. Google scares me, but impresses me at the same time.

Only last week I scrambled at the chance for a Google Wave invite (thanks Rob). I still have no idea why. Now Twitter Lists is upon us.

There’s never a dull moment, so best to plough on I guess.

Good Morning!

We were really excited to see our latest artwork by Neil Duerden in the Shortlist magazine this morning.

The Freedom campaign for latest Samsung X-Series laptop was directed by our friend Kelly Sands at Beattie McGuinness Bungay. Neil was asked to illustrate and express the freedom of having 9 hours of battery life on the laptop; we think he did a fantastic job!

Click on the image for a larger size – or, if you grabbed a Shortlist on your journey this morning, check it out in it’s full glory!

The fantastic guys at the Shortlist Magazine just tweeted me their digital version of today’s issue! If you’d like to see Neil’s work online click here and flick through to page 51!

Today was much better than the misery that was yesterday.

I managed to figure out the network issues at my Nans place. They are now all sorted, secured and happy.

I have managed to re-write my personal statement. The v.2 is much better.

Now all thats remaining is to get tomorrow out the way and roll on the holidays! Wahey!

I’m seeing a lot of fuss about Mr. Hudson and his new Album. Im listening to it on Spotify now. It’s quite good. I remember Supernova. But, his other songs aren’t much in comparison.

I really can’t wait to catch up on some sleep on Friday. For the past 3 days, I have been falling asleep on the train again. Yesterday was the worst. I usually think nobody has noticed. It’s that sleepyness where you KNOW you shouldn’t be falling asleep, so when your head rolls you wake yourself up.

Turns out, I was being watched by someone. She looked at me and smiled. I could feel myself going bright red and I couldnt stop it. The thought that I have been compromised!

Luckily, there was some really old ladies on the train today. I got on and a pound coin fell out my pocket. I picked it up and they joked with me I couldn’t pick it up quick enough.

I put it back and then got comfy. Then, two twenty pences fell out and two pence. The woman was like ‘OH! FOURTY TWO PENCE NOW!. QUICK QUICK, PICK IT UP!’

Then the woman opposite me was like ‘You just need a woman to spend it for you’. She was mid 40’s and she fully put her hand out infront of my face. I replied ‘I have a lovely girl to spend it for me’, putting emphasis on the girl bit.

She gave me this awkward look, and I put my nose back into my shortlist.

10 minutes later ‘OH MY GOD! At this point, I shit myself. I think the trains about to de-rail, or someones having a heartattack.

‘Have they changed the Shortlist Day?!’ She was shouting so loud.

‘No, but you can usually grab a copy Wednesday evening.’

Does it really matter if they change the day? She was so dramatic about it. Saying something like ‘OH BALLS’.

So, luckily I didn’t fall asleep today, only thanks to old women. They wouldn’t shut up goddamnit.

Veteran Manchester United winger Ryan Giggs is one of five British footballers nominated for the prestigious European Footballer of the Year award for 2009…. From BBC News. Full story

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The 2009 National Book Award finalists have been announced, and two Michigan authors are on the shortlist!  Huge congratulations out to David Small, author/artist of the graphic novel memoir Stitches, and to Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of the short story collection American Salvage.  Schuler of Lansing hosted an author event with Bonnie last spring, so we’ll be able to say “We knew her when…”!

We’ll also have an exclusive interview with her to post on the blog soon – stay tuned!

Click through to see the full list of nominees:

Fiction

Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press)

Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin (Random House)

Daniyal Mueenuddin, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (W. W. Norton & Co.)

Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Alfred A. Knopf)

Marcel Theroux, Far North (Farrar Straus and Giroux)

Nonfiction

David M. Carroll, Following the Water: A Hydromancer’s Notebook
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Sean B. Carroll, Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt)

Adrienne Mayor, The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy (Princeton University Press)

T. J. Stiles, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
(Alfred A. Knopf)

Poetry

Rae Armantrout, Versed (Wesleyan University Press)

Ann Lauterbach, Or to Begin Again (Viking Penguin)

Carl Phillips, Speak Low (Farrar Straus and Giroux)

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Open Interval (University of Pittsburgh Press)

Keith Waldrop, Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (University of California Press)

Young People’s Literature

Deborah Heiligman, Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith (Henry Holt)

Phillip Hoose, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Farrar Straus and Giroux)

David Small, Stitches (W. W. Norton & Co.)

Laini Taylor, Lips Touch: Three Times (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic)

Rita Williams-Garcia, Jumped (HarperTeen/HarperCollins)

Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
Gore Vidal

Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community
Dave Eggers

klau|s|ens, warum tust du das? warum zählst du die SHORTLISTs der letzten 5 DEUTSCHEN BUCHPREISE durch?

einfach so. ich denke, dass so der schriftsteller sein demokratisches wächteramt wahrnehmen kann.

indem er die buch-list-lage kontrolliert?

der schriftsteller zählt einfach 1 und 1 zusammen. das macht er. und dafür bringt er diese statistik. der schriftsteller zeigt sich als mathematiker. nicht mehr, und nicht minder.

und das resultat?

der schriftsteller braucht seine zahlen nicht zu dokumentieren. sie sprechen für sich.

dann solltest du nur noch bücher schreiben, die aus zahlen bestehen.

im moment beschreibe ich einen markt, der aus zahlen besteht. ich beschreibe den DEUTSCHEN BUCHPREIS via einer seiner wahrnehmungsmöglichkeiten. nicht mehr und nicht minder.

so, dann zeig doch mal.

bitte! lies!

DEUTSCHER BUCHPREIS: KLAUSENS SHORTLIST-STATISTIK 2005 – 2009

Wie oft in der Shortlist vertreten?
AUFBAU: 1 EINS = 1 Hauptpreis? Keiner
BECK: 1 EINS = 1 Hauptpreis? Keiner
BERLIN VERLAG: 3 DREI = 3 Hauptpreis? Keiner
DROSCHL: 1 EINS = 1 Hauptpreis? Keiner
FISCHER: 11 ZWEI = 2 Hauptpreis? Keiner
FRANKF. VERLAGSA.: 11 ZWEI = 2 Hauptpreis? Keiner
HANSER: 1111111 SIEBEN = 7 Hauptpreise? Zwei
JUNG UND JUNG: 1 EINS = 1 Hauptpreis? Keiner
KIEPENHEUER & WITSCH: 111 DREI = 3 Hauptpreis? Einer
LUCHTERHAND: 1 EINS = 1 Hauptpreis? Keiner
RESIDENZ: 1 EINS = 1 Hauptpreis? Keiner
ROWOHLT: 11 ZWEI = 2 Hauptpreis? Einer
SUHRKAMP: 11111 FÜNF = 5 Hauptpreis? Einer

SHORTLIST 2005

Arno Geiger
Es geht uns gut
Hanser

Daniel Kehlmann
Die Vermessung der Welt
Rowohlt

Thomas Lehr
42
Aufbau-Verlag

Gert Loschütz
Dunkle Gesellschaft
Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt

Gila Lustiger
So sind wir
Berlin Verlag

Friederike Mayröcker
Und ich schüttelte einen Liebling
Suhrkamp

SHORTLIST 2006

Katharina Hacker
Die Habenichtse
Suhrkamp

Thomas Hettche
Woraus wir gemacht sind
Kiepenheuer & Witsch

Ingo Schulze
Neue Leben
Berlin Verlag

Saša Stanišić
Wie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert
Luchterhand

Ilija Trojanow
Der Weltensammler
Hanser

Martin Walser
Angstblüte
Rowohlt

SHORTLIST 2007

Julia Franck
Die Mittagsfrau
S. Fischer

Thomas Glavinic
Das bin doch ich
Hanser

Michael Köhlmeier
Abendland
Hanser

Katja Lange-Müller
Böse Schafe
Kiepenheuer & Witsch

Martin Mosebach
Der Mond und das Mädchen
Hanser

Thomas von Steinaecker
Wallner beginnt zu fliegen
Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt

SHORTLIST 2008

Dietmar Dath
Die Abschaffung der Arten
Suhrkamp

Sherko Fatah
Das dunkle Schiff
Jung und Jung

Iris Hanika
Treffen sich zwei
Droschl

Rolf Lappert
Nach Hause schwimmen
Hanser

Ingo Schulze
Adam und Evelyn
Berlin Verlag

Uwe Tellkamp
Der Turm
Suhrkamp

SHORTLIST 2009

Rainer Merkel
Lichtjahre entfernt
S. Fischer

Herta Müller
Atemschaukel
Hanser

Norbert Scheuer
Überm Rauschen
C. H. Beck

Kathrin Schmidt
Du stirbst nicht
Kiepenheuer & Witsch

Clemens J. Setz
Die Frequenzen
Residenz

Stephan Thome
Grenzgang
Suhrkamp

toll! großartige fleißarbeit! und es gibt keinerlei bewertung?

die zahlen sprechen für sich. nicht mehr, und nicht minder!

ORIGINALVERSION mit Fettdruck und allen Bildern
und allen Links bei KLAUSENS BLOGG (mit 2 G !!!)
KLAU|S|ENS – LOG – W E L T L I N G
http://klausens.blogg.de

HOMEPAGE VON KLAU|S|ENS: http://www.klausens.com

A Leeds City Council officer who helped get an Asbo against a woman who constantly played Dolly Parton songs is in line for a national award…. From BBC News. Full story

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So Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize…   I don’t think that came as a big surprise to anyone who has been reading the press for her novel Wolf Hall.  Or kept an eye on the Bookies.  I’m just thrilled because it means I can put aside The Children’s Book without guilt (or with less guilt) and admit defeat… at least for now.

And I almost forgot about the Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist which was announced today…

• The Bishop’s Man by Linden MacIntyre
• The Disappeared by Kim Echlin
• Fall by Colin McAdam
• The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
• The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels

I’m embarrassed to say I haven’t read any of these books and I’m not familiar with any of the authors.  But my review of Amphibian goes up tomorrow… so perhaps my support of another Canadian author will make up for my neglect.

Mie mi se par mult mai interesante decît cele pentru literatură. În plus, acordate anul ăsta, acum o oră şi ceva poate, unor cercetători în telecomunicaţii. Altă chestie interesantă.

Am scris în shortlist:

Charles Kao, cercetător cu dublă cetăţenie (americană şi britanică), născut în Shanghai, a câştigat jumătate din cele 10 milione de coroane suedeze (1,4 milioane $) pentru cercetările sale privind fibra optică.

Willard Boyle, tot cu dublă cetăţenie (canadiană şi americană), şi americanul George Smith împart cealaltă jumătate pentru meritul de a fi inventat CCD-ul (charged coupled device),  primul senzor digital, aflat astăzi în alcătuirea tuturor camerelor digitale.

Aflu tot de pe Shortlist, că, în perioada Festivalului Gourmet din Budapesta, echipa Dining Guide a anunţat, în cadrul unui eveniment închis publicului, care sunt cei 10 finalişti potenţiali câştigători ai titlului de “cel mai bun restaurant din Ungaria” pentru anul 2009.
Juriul, format din 36 de membri, a selecţionat atent restaurantele, acestea urmând a fi testate de mai multe ori până la sfârşitul anului, când va avea loc premierea.
Shortlist prezintă deocamdată o primă listă cu 5 restaurante finaliste.

• Arany Kaviár
• Bock Bisztró
• Babel
• Costes
• Chateau Visz

Citeşte aici câteva detalii utile despre fiecare.

Dacă nu aveţi drum prin Ungaria, vă aştept la mine la Restaurant Hotel Phoenix, să vă gătesc aşa ceva.

My attempt at a summer shortlist was a moderate success. I only read about half of the books I was planning to, even giving myself an extra month’s worth of summer in which to accomplish it. Still, I liked having a box of books by my bed where I could keep my “to be read next” pile. The only problems were a) finding something else on the shelf that appealed more, and b) getting books from the library instead of reading my own!

So, whether or not I stick to it is thoroughly up in the air, but I thought I’d at least make a shortlist of what I’d like to get read in the next few months. Some of these are my own, some are coming from the library, but hopefully having a list will keep me somewhat on track and not too distracted by other shiny new books at the library and/or bookstore. (Hey, I’m trying to be optimistic, here. Really, it could happen. Hey, seriously, stop laughing!)

	Finish: - Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin. It’s a big anniversary year, and I’ve been “currently reading” this since March… and the Beagle hasn’t even made it past Brazil yet. Time to get on it. - Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: 1997 ed. by Terri Datlow & Ellen Windling. I don’t even remember when I started this, but I think it’s been over a year. I’ll commit myself to a story per night – and that usually last for two or three nights, and then I don’t pick it up again for ages.
	Re-read: - Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan. I can’t help myself. I have to read the new one, so I’m going to have to re-read this one too.
		New Releases: - An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon. I think I am juuuust past the halfway-point. - Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger - Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia by Brandon Sanderson - And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer. New Hitchhiker’s book! - The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson - The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
	TBR non-fiction - Write Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day by Joan Bolker. It’s getting to be about that time… although I’m afraid it’s going to start “how to write your dissertation in fifteen minutes a day… starting in your first year of grad school.” - The Secret Lives of Lobsters by Trevor Corson. Kim’s making her sister read this book, and since I mooched it on Kim’s recommendation, I thought I might read along. - Stiff by Mary Roach. ‘Tis the season.
		TBR fiction - Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick. For review in the next week or so… it might actually make a good break in the middle of the Gabaldon tome. - The Bigamist’s Daughter by Alice McDermott. My advisor walked over to my desk and said “You like novels, right? I think you’ll like this one.” - Twilight of Avalon by Anna Elliott. I won a copy last spring, spent all summer hearing good things about it, now I really need to read it. - Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett. It’s boats! And short stories! And sciency-related! - In the Woods by Tara French. Maybe it’s just the cover design, but this feels like an appropriate fall read. - The Vintner’s Luck by Elizabeth Knox. I always feel bad if I don’t get one year’s Christmas presents read by the time the next year rolls around. - The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay. Aww, Guy, it’s been too long. - Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch. Before I forget everything that happened in The Lies of Locke Lamora. - The rest of the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris. So addictive.

Wenn ich rausfinde, wies geht (ist wahrscheinlich einfach, nur bin ich faul), gibt es hierzu auch eine Umfrage… es geht um die schönsten (deutschsprachigen) Schimpfworte des Jahres 2009, ich habe dieses Jahr mit zahllosen experimentiert und es scheint genug Auswahl zu geben. Hier die Short-oder Longlist der schönsten Schipfworte des Jahres:

PISSNELKE:
ein Klassiker des abstrusen, zusammengesetzten Schimpfwortes, erstmalige Verwendung in der Mitte der 90er Jahre, damals allerdings noch nicht salonfähig. Der Widerspruch zwischen den beiden Teilen erzeugt das Bild einer beurinierten Blume, deren Zweck im beuriniertwerden besteht. Klarer Favorit meinerseits, jedoch nicht überall öffentlichkeitsfähig.

SCHEISSKOPF:
ein fäkalisch-juveniler Allrounder, auch in der Öffentlichkeit selten beanstandet, mit eindeutiger Bedeutung und zahlreichen Anwendungs- Variations- und Kombinierungsmöglichkeiten. zum Beispiel:
bekloppter Scheisskopf, scheiss Pisskopf, Kopfscheisser, bepisster Scheisskopf, Scheisskopf in Buttersauce, Beschissener Blödkopf, Dünnschissschädel.

DUMPFNASE:
gesellschaftlich unproblematischer, deshalb leicht langweilger Bedeutungskollege von Scheisskopf. Auch für den Umgang mit Kindern geeignet. Macht diese Liste nur dank des Charmes, die einem derartig unproblematischen Schimpfwort nuneinmal innewohnt. Allerdings höchstens Geheimfavorit.

TANGENTENSCHEISSER:
für anspruchsvolle Diskussionen geeignet.

DU BANKENRETTUNGSBEFÜRWORTER:
eher ein Außenseiter, ob des aktuellen Bezugs, der in einigen Jahren wahrscheinlich nicht mehr zündet. Könnte allerdings ein Klassiker dieser unserer Zeit werden, beziehungsweise ein schimpfwörtliches Symbol für das Ende der Nullerjahre.

ASTRONUTTE:
seiner Zeit voraus, da der Film erst kommt. Gut geeignet um begabte Schlampen, hirnlose AntisexistInnen und anspruchslose Aufreisser zu bedenken. Eher selten verwendet, aber dennoch schön.

FRÜHSTÜCKSMUSSOLINI:
Variation eines klassichen Haddocks für die anspruchsvolle Unterhaltung nach vier Uhr und ohne Beleidigungsabsicht (am besten mit Grinsen vorzutragen).

BLÖDSACK:
Universal, frontal, Chancen: marginal.

Von der Auswahlliste:
Peniskopf
FDP-Wähler
Ökospiesser
Krisengewinnler
Flötenkasper
Krampfpisser
Floristenpack
…

Stimmt in den Kommentaren oder bei einer etwaigen Umfrage für Euren Favoriten!

Was ist das schönste Schimpfwort 2009?
(polls)

  Foto AKO Literatuurprijs: de jury 2009 met voorzitter Guy Verhofstadt.

Vanavond zullen we het via de Nederlandse televisie geweten hebben: of Dimitri Verhulst met zijn Godverdomse dagen op een godverdomse bol ook kans maakt op die andere prestigieuze prijs, de AKO Literatuurprijs. Of hij de overstap van de tip- naar de toplijst of shortlist heeft gemaakt. Of grijpt Bart Moeyaert hem met Graz toch naar de kroon??

Grote literaire blogs zoals De Papieren Man en Literatuurlog hebben hen al weken geleden, in real time met het persbericht, aangekondigd: Dimitri Verhulst en Bart Moeyaert zijn twee (van mijn favorieten) van de zes Vlamingen op de longlist of tiplijst van de AKO Literatuurprijs 2009.

Zoals hier eerder gemeld, is de Vlaamse politicus Guy Verhofstadt, oud-premier van België en lid van het Europees Parlement, dit jaar juryvoorzitter.  x (?) jaren na die andere cultuurpaus Jan Hoet, die in 19.. (?) de jury voorzat. [Invuloefening. Oplossing: verstopt in deze post.] De prijs liep toentertijd onder de benaming Generale Bank Literatuurprijs. Zoals algemeen geweten, zal Verhofstadt Jan Hoet ook als cultuurpaus opvolgen. De restyling van zijn look wees al geruime tijd in die richting.

De prijs had in het jaar met voorzitter Jan Hoet ook een jongerenschaduwjury in de tv-uitzending van De Plantage met de legendarische cultuurvrouw Hanneke Groenteman, nu te volgen op Twitter, Facebook en meer. (Misschien moesten we haar en haar panel in Vrouw & Paard eens vragen wat te denken over de zichtbaarheid van vrouwen in de literatuur.) Eén van mijn leerlingen van toen, Hilal Taplak, mocht twee jaar in die jongerenjury én de uitzending in De Plantage ’zetelen’. Een belevenis! Met trots denk ik aan haar knappe prestaties terug!

My attempt to read the Booker Longlist has failed comprehensively. I’m not sure I ever believed I could do it. I’m struggling too with the Booker shortlist, though I have managed a decent showing. I have half of the Children’s Book by A S Byatt and probably four fifths of Wolf Hall left to read by the 6th October. Good luck me!

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Nun ist sie raus die Shortlist für den diesjährigen Deutschen Buchpreis 2009, der am 12. Oktober im Frankfurter Römer vergeben wird. Hier nun die Nominierten:

Rainer Merkel – Lichtjahre entfernt
Herta Müller – Atemschaukel
Kathrin Schmidt – Du stirbst nicht
Norbert Scheuer – Überm Rauschen
Clemens J. Setz – Die Frequenzen
Stephan Thome – Grenzgang