…just now sliding into third base (office) after passing base one (two Becks) under some blazing sun on Oranienplatz (aka AA) with Rafi, who is apparently pulling up stakes post-eviction-notice and heading to the greener pastures of Achen NWP* with their cleaner dialects and funny beer. Second base (I’m realizing now that the baseball analogy [...]

that’s weird how May always comes after April and not the other way around, huh

I’m digging this new White Stripes rekkid, Get Behind Me Satan. For you heathens out there, that’s what Jesus says to Satan when he offers him all the kingdoms of the world, then later to Peter [Matthew 16:23] when he objects to Jesus doing his earthly calling, i.e. accepting his crucifiction for the sins of [...]

With a good few days between my return from the homeland and the eye infection slash Chicago diet slash consumption spree slash bonghits slash jetlag slash Weltschmertz almost worn off, I think I can reflect a little better on what happened last week. Last week in America, Greatest Hits [to be updated throughout the day]:

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Sha-weet… David Cross takes down Pitchfork, on Pitchfork.
And isn’t it somehow awesomely ironic that the White House is pissed at Newsweek because people got killed due to misinformation reported as fact. I also find it kinda eerie that Condoleeza Rice called out Syria on Monday during an interview from a plane, the day after a [...]

Seriously, I am such a good blogger. Or rather such a bad sleeper, these days. Thanks a lot stupid jetlag. Now I can’t sleep until 5AM. Let’s just call it zombie research.

I’m so sleepless, I stumbled across a blog out of Antarctica (75 Degrees South). This photo looks like something from Star Wars, but [...]

shot from the passenger window driving through Fairfax, VA. I think it makes a good background. [1024*768]
[Who Else]…a smooth track from Eligh of Cali’s Living Legends (Enigma, 2005)

Yeah, outternally is the poor man’s externally. Reporting from headquarters in Berlin. Air France flight 51 was fun. I sat between a nurse from Chicago who was escorting her elderly aunt to Paris to meet a brother she hasn’t seen in 60 years (see Chicago Tribune, Metro section some time last week). And on the [...]

I’m baked internally and outternally here next to a wooded pond on the Rowan estate in East Virginia just south of the Mason-Dixon. Represent. The sun is blazing against transparent blue and the sound of birds and bugs and a lonesome faraway lawnmower. We [E & I] just finished a rock [granite] wall built and [...]

So May 1st was fun if very much less violent than past years, so I don’t have any pictures of burning cars for y’all. The traditional demonstration was cancelled, I’m guessing for lack of specific cause other than wasting pigs and taking the power back (from your local supermarket, like in 2002). Some vendors were [...]