I'm trying to make sense of the past federal elections in Germany. At first, I was quite surprised, with the christian democrats gaining no ground and actually loosing a few seats in parliament. Strange results. Both the social democrats and the christian democrats went into the elections with a strong rejection of a possible coalition between the ( Read more... )

pretend you're not here
a drunken meditation
ice on your cheeks
and somewhere in china
a sack of rice falls down

pretend you exist
pathetic honesty
nightmarish words
appear on blank pages
of your book

pretend it's just you
the mask on the hook
white water
running down a cave
nobody's been there

I'm so confused about emotions. I have real problems making sense of them. About the only ones I can clearly identify is the erotic stuff or melancholy. These are quite broad categories, as to the erotic stuff, for me, also belongs the lust at the forbidden, and to melancholy belongs sadness and depression as well as cynical moods or sarcastic ( Read more... )

Some people can really be screwed up in the head. I've come to realize this after I've been screwed up in the head myself. I guess this is a better base for understanding these things than by calling something nuts just because it's unconventional. That's not because I got healthy again in the sense of returning to be functional, for myself, and, ( Read more... )

I've just read at my newssite that the Pentagon is planning to reintroduce nuclear bombs in future warfare, though for now this is exclusively for eventual conflicts with terrorists or countries that use or research WMD's ( Read more... )

there is no passion, there is only peace

BUT

time is still a big monster
hunted by the bigger monster that's me

So we'll have elections in Germany, soon. I won't go voting. Don't know whom to vote for. If I'd have to vote I'd probably go for SPD again. Not because I'm too fond of them, but because I favor a grand coalition of CDU and SPD. I think only this way things will get done properly. That's because then both parties will know they can loose. Because ( Read more... )

I hate it that nobody ever calls me Daniel, though it's my name. My family calls me Dany (no typo, Dany like Daanee). Kids in school called me Neuby (after my nickname), or Schlaubi (after the german name of a smart ass smurf), or sugar violin. Only teachers called me Daniel ( Read more... )

Ok, enough with the oil crisis musings for now ( Read more... )

Musings on survival. ( Read more... )