Thank you for your continuing comments upon The Mark Steyn Club's eighth birthday. From Mark Kelly, a longtime New Jersey Steyn Clubber:
Mark- congratulations from a First Week Member!!!
Ha! First Week? Tom Bruck can beat that:
As a First Day Founding Member, I want to wish you happy anniversary! I look forward to another eight years of wit, wisdom and music!
We'll do our best, Tom.
And, with that, on to Part Nine of Jerome K Jerome's second very popular contribution to Tales for Our Time. In tonight's episode of Three Men on the Bummel, our intrepid trio arrive in the German capital and find it all a bit of a yawn:
Berlin is a disappointing town; its centre over-crowded, its outlying parts lifeless; its one famous street, Unter den Linden, an attempt to combine Oxford Street with the Champs Elysée, singularly unimposing, being much too wide for its size; its theatres dainty and charming, where acting is considered of more importance than scenery or dress, where long runs are unknown, successful pieces being played again and again, but never consecutively, so that for a week running you may go to the same Berlin theatre, and see a fresh play every night; its opera house unworthy of it; its two music halls, with an unnecessary suggestion of vulgarity and commonness about them, ill-arranged and much too large for comfort...
Fortunately, Diversity Drivers at the Christmas markets have livened things up since then. Members of The Mark Steyn Club can listen to Part Nine of our adventure simply by clicking here and logging-in. Earlier episodes can be found here.
By the way, if you like the music from Tales for Our Time, you can enjoy a wide selection of it - by Brahms, Glinka, Mahler, Mussorgsky and more - here.
If you've yet to hear any of our Tales for Our Time, you can do so by joining The Mark Steyn Club, just beginning its ninth year. Membership is available now - and, if you sign up, you'll be all set for Part Ten of Three Men on the Bummel this time tomorrow (and all the earlier episodes, of course). And, if you've a friend who likes classic fiction, don't forget our special Gift Membership. Oh, and aside from audio fiction, we also do video poetry.
If you're one of that brave band who enjoy me on camera, don't forget this weekend's special edition of The Mark Steyn Show, with three of my favourite guests.
