Not really alike.
No shared circle of culture.
Yet we do argue.

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I have some instructions on How To Copy and Post Pictures, but unfortunately they are Down Under and I am Up Over. Step-by-step advice would be infinitely appreciated. Maybe one day I, like the hero of The Last Cop, will learn how to live in the 21st century.

. . . namely, German-language fandoms with between 0 and 4 English-speaking members. My latest one, Der letzte Bulle (The Last Cop) just might make it to the multilingual Australian tv channel, because it's been wildly successful in Germany (crosses all fingers tightly). It's about a young cop who gets bonked on the head, spends 20 years or so in a ( Read more... )

Here, free to just think.
There, always rushing around.
Where is the real me?

The gift of free time.
Away from all computers
I enjoy "slow life".

But I made sure I stayed within range of a television screen on Wednesday nights - new eps of Alarm fuer Cobra 11, dubbed into Italian - moreimplausible car chases and multiple accidents, more banter, ( Read more... )

That's why we are here:
To make mistakes and to learn.
Write it on my grave.

p.s. My paper went fairly well.

Not a lot to tell since I only got here yesterday. Things one can't help noticing: terrifying queues at the airport - run-down houses - building sites everywhere (still around on the Eve of the Olympics ( Read more... )

Locked up inside my house since yesterday afternoon, trying to write my conference paper (today is a holiday in Australia, the symbolic birthday of a Queen I don't accept as my ruler). Should finish the first draft by tonight.

Frequently frustrated by ideas that refuse to line up (Head 'em up! Move 'em out!); occasionally close to happiness when ( Read more... )

( Still alive. )

A Melbourne institution booked me (Italian interpreter) for a job involving a person called Camilleri. I took the job, with vague fond thoughts of Andrea Camilleri, the wonderful, cantankerous 90-year-old Sicilian author of many beloved Inspector Montalbano thrillers set in an imaginary Sicilian town. When I got to the institution, I discovered ( Read more... )