Posted in The Internets, arts, culture, mirth and joviality on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I, like undoubtedly millions of others, enjoy greatly the guerrilla-style train station dance routines of the past couple years, and the Antwerp Central Station is indeed a beautiful locale in which to have one:
So chipper and sprightly for a country with one of the world’s highest suicide rates!
Posted in arts, blogs, culture, language on October 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
PostSecret describes itself as “an ongoing community art project where people
mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.” The blog is updated every Sunday with scans of these postcards, which are sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and often leave me filled with despair about what we leave unsaid. Here’s a topical example:
I especially [...]
Posted in arts, communication, culture on May 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Though my line of work has me handling a lot of different business cards, a curious difference between those from Americans and Germans had escaped my notice until a colleague pointed it out to me: taking a pile sitting on my desk, he demonstrated that while all American business cards were the standard 3.5” × [...]
Posted in arts, me on May 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As I rode my bike past the Schweriner Schloss at 5:30 AM today on my way to catch a train, I realized that I had never before seen the castle illuminated in the colors of dawn. So vibrant and stunning was the juxtaposition of warm peachy hues and light shades of azure that I knew [...]
Posted in arts, travel on November 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Well, the comments got started off a bit slowly, but in the end I’m satisfied with the reader participation in response to the query posed in my last post.
None of you, however, was able to guess correctly. I did not go to Hamburg for the Balzac coffee (though I do believe I walked past a [...]
