In my never ending quest to track down and document every time Romania is portrayed in entertainment media, I came across a strange connection. You might remember a few weeks ago I discussed an episode of Criminal Minds wherein one of the “FBI agents” supposedly recognizes the bad guys as being from Romania because she (the FBI agent) supposedly remembered hearing Romanian from when she … Continue reading Never Doubt The Power of the Press
Excuse the slowdown in blogging as I’ve been busy as heck. But I did find a priceless jewel on the internet that I think you might enjoy. Back in the late 1970’s, the actor Leonard Nimoy (famous for being Mr. Spock on Star Trek) narrated a show called “In Search Of…” where each week they focused on something mysterious or supernatural in a kind of … Continue reading In Search Of… Dracula
Just about every week someone new asks me to justify why I live in Romania. I guess I should start a new category of posts just to list all of these answers, which are far too numerous to fit into a single article. One of the simplest reasons is cash money, (pronounced kish by most Romanians). From the first day I got here right up … Continue reading After The Flood Had Swept Over, The Kingship Was In Kish
If you haven’t taken the Pop Quiz already, then go ahead and do so before reading further because what follows are the ANSWERS. Yay! Three cheers for answers. Ready? If you’re a highly educated person you probably missed that I mischievously put an “extra” question on the test. I deliberately embed all kinds of textual “Easter eggs” in just about everything I write, mostly to … Continue reading E4R: Answers to Pop Quiz #1
You might remember I wrote a nifty little post about promoting fear in the press a short while back. Well lately the British media has been in full force, scaring their readers about dem ole sneaky snake Romanians (don’t you know they’re from Eastern Europe? Run for your lives!) Here’s one from the “Daily Mail”, a rather sleazy gossip newspaper, with a piece about how … Continue reading (Romanian) Criminal Minds
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