NvB: Bored in Brno?: Spring Cleanup and Welcomes

Spring Cleanup and Welcomes

I've been changing around the links a bit recently. It was partly a cleanup effort but also an update. I've added a few new links. In particular, there is a small blogroll of various Brno-related news sites and blogs. There do not seem to be many blogs about Brno in English, but at the moment these are the most notable (though not all are in English). This is just an experiment for the time being, and if you notice that it makes the site load painfully slowly or creates other problems, please let me know. If you know of other Brno blogs that you think should appear or you write one of these blogs and would prefer that it does not appear, please email me.

You can also click on "See more of my Bloglines links" to view other blogs that I'm reading--they include a few news sites, Prague sites, Czech sites, etc.

Two additions deserve special note:

Life Starts at 30. Joe started a blog. He's just starting, but it looks like fun so far and you can meet all of my favorite dogs (and a cat). :)

Sounds Like Now. Brian Sacawa, classical saxaphonist extraordinaire, also has a blog. (I followed the link on Joe's site.) Brian was in one of my first gradschool seminars and his ideas and writing about music are very insightful and worth a read.

Enjoy!

Posted 07 April 2006 at 11:18.

The Blog

What is "Bored in Brno"? a) the best Czech movie of 2003, b) a blog about Brno (the Czech Republic's second largest city) and my adventures in and observations of south and east Moravia. I usually post about music, arts, culture, and stuff in Brno; or, I talk about whatever; or, I may bore you.

There's a Czech saying about how you are a new person for every language you learn. Here's your chance to experience Czech vicariously and to become your new self, now conveniently available in English translation. (Or at least something reasonably close to English.)

If you have questions, suggestions, like what you see, or you're just plain bored, don't hesitate to leave a comment or e-mail me.

The Blogger

A graduate student in music and anthropology writing a dissertation about music in Moravia, the eastern third of the Czech Republic. At some point, the Czech Republic's "second city" (that would be Brno) captured my attention, and I've since been blogging about events, arts, music, and other stuff—basically whatever interests me in and around the cityscape. I'm not living in Brno now, but I keep up with the cultural pulse from afar as best I can.

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