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BRATISLAVA – At least, that’s the thank-you letter Finland should send Slovakia.

I’ve never been to a Helsinki block party. But earlier this month, for a solid fortnight of the World Hockey Championship, Bratislava sure felt like one. By the end of their two-week drinking binge, I wanted the pickled Finns to grab their gold medals and get the hell out.

BRATISLAVA – That’s what the Slovak commentator screamed from the TV.

Goodbye, Italy!

How about ‘dem Slovaks?! Our scrappy Central European friends today sent the reigning champion – mighty Italy – tumbling out of the World Cup, 3-2. Even I cheered in the pub today.

“After you, France … Want to share a taxi to the airport?”

Great spot put together by Digital District for Amnesty International. Only beef I have is, why use the NBA "Where Amazing Happens" music? Peep the copycat below. 

Since its 2 weeks in and it should be my natural "cultural" responsibility to ramp up the coverage on the World's greatest sporting event here at the Mantle, this picture is my first contribution. If this was 03', a Chappelle skit definitely would've been in order. 

Props to Foreign Policy

I thought I’d try an experiment with this blog entry, by composing it in a word processor, but I gave up after four paragraphs. It’s an experiment because I usually draft in longhand, in a large cheap notebook, before encoding the text, revising and editing as I go, and printing it out for further revision, encoding those revisions, and repeating the process until I’m happy with the work.

Composing in a computer, I had to stop writing several times to think or correct or rephrase myself. I’m leery of writing in a stop-and-start rhythm, worried that the staccato will creep into my prose, and I had to fight the urge to reach for my notebook and pen.