le monde a l'envers

A family friend we call "Joe Dog" (long story) has started a new blog, which I'm putting on my list of blog links here. Joe Dog has recently started an English teaching job in the Czech Republic, so we'll look forward to reading about his adventures over there. He emails that his blog "may end up being boring, or pretentious, but I’ll try to avoid that, mainly by limiting myself to only one use of the words 'quasi-epistemological' and 'love' per month".

In one of his first blog postings, Joe lets us know that "It’s the second night of říjen — literally 'the month of the rutting season' in Czech." I've never been to the Czech Republic, but if they have an entire season devoted to rutting, I'll have to make the trip sometime...