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This is not my beautiful house...
A bit of boring stranger in a strange land blogging, so if you don't give a toss about my life, tune out after this sentence ( Read more... ) -
A perfect short story
In a wonderful article about Munich that Frau Trout sent me, there was embedded this small paragraph that made me smile right down to the tips of my toes. Another example of Munich's openness is the city's great Englischer Garten (English Garden), one of the largest urban public parks in the world. It was designed in 1789 by Benjamin Thompson ( ( Read more... ) -
A sonnet for the financial crisis
My love and I, we had but nought to sell ( Read more... ) -
A Fedora, a cigarette, an alibi, an excuse, a pistol, one bullet...
Hello from Germany! Things are well here, although in my pseudo-bachelordom, I've been marinating myself in movies and books. This weekend, I had a back-to-back doozy. Upon my doorstep (after the outrageous customs cost!) arrived two sui generis films from the great French master of crime, Jean-Pierre Melville: Le Doulos and Le Deuxiéme Souffle. ( Read more... ) -
Adventures in Customer Service
So, tedious news first...
NOT DEAD.
That covered, I can carry on and move forth. So I suppose that I must blow my cover, uncover the lid and let it all loose. It's official. In one month and six days, I shall be away. As in gone. No longer here. International, me. I could be coy, but the contract is signed, sealed and en route. Shortly, I ( Read more... ) -
V for Veronica.
I've been working up the various reasons that M. and I settled on Veronica as a first name for our daughter. My first criteria when brain-storming names was that I didn't want a name possessed by any living member of our family. I'm normally a very ecologically minded person, but that was one bit of recycling I'm not keen on. Secondly, I wanted ( Read more... ) -
tee hee hee...
Not yet a father and already I need to arrange a sitter...why, you ask?
This is why.
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Go on...do have some more.
Here's a first for me - food blogging. As those of you who know me will be aware, I'm a wee bit of a foodie, and lately I've been expanding my skills in the kitchen under the watchful and generous eye of leftyviolist. On my last birthday, I received the mighty Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook. I asked it because the man is a genius writer and I knew I ( Read more... ) -
Oh hell...
Thanks to Charlie Stross, a bit of my hard earned spondulix is going to be shortly spent on the PRS-505. This is a device that I've been waiting a *long* time for - a truly good e-reader. I suffer from severe G.A.S. (Gadget Acquisition Syndrome) but lately I've been very good at avoiding those things which shine and go BEEP. This, however, I am ( Read more... ) -
Signed, sealed and...and?
Well, how to deal with this one? I subconsciously knew that it was coming, but nothing could really prepare me for it. I mean, after this past Wednesday, it's real. I do mean really real. This is the real thing, you know. The ultimate result. What we are here for...and I mean that in both the divine sense as well as the Dawkins sense. My ( Read more... )