And we’re off to the land of…
 
…happy trails to us! I will be very reachable @
hellobp AT gmail DOT com
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We’re pretty excited in most senses of the word excited. Yuhang and I are getting ready for a two-week voyage to the ECUS (EC stands for East Coast in shipping terms, I’ll let you figure out the rest), starting early this Friday morning from Tegel Airport.
And I’ll tell you, there is a special sort of [...]

New law and one of Europe’s strongest. So, like I was saying about the corporations and whatnot (thanks again to those that clued me in on DT’s global ambitions), this one goes out to all the multi-national conglomerates in the house. Sad but true:
“Germany is cracking down on copyright infringement with a new law that [...]

…it is not, but warmish humidity is indeed something to get excited about (can I call it dank?).
Anyway, and I’m not the first one to jump on the scorn wagon here, but Deutsche Telekom (like a lot of mega firms) kinda scares the beejesus out of me with it’s grip on Germany and German image-projecting. [...]

Well, it’s better than usual. Hey, Berlin got the bird flu today! Way to go us! In Marzahn, no less. So, that’s all the time I’m gonna spend on that. (Please insert line break here. -bp1 / No time. Bugger off. -bp2) Now for something completely different: From a pdf I recently acquired, called The [...]

So the sun has been out for a few consecutive days now, the convenient excuses of weather hazards have thawed and, well, you’re not getting any younger, so how about running? Sigh. Moan. Yeah, you’d think from Run Lola Run that Berlin was full of avid runners. Well, you’d be wrong, half wrong at least. [...]

In keeping with the recent sports theme and to spur on friendly-but-abrasive international relations, don’t forget: Germany’s fussball team is playing against the US team tonight in Dortmund. I think Germany has it in the bag, just so long as they don’t succumb to the growing pressure. Man, wouldn’t that be something. Klinsmann would totally [...]

Anyone who has been on the streets of Berlin this month for more than 15 minutes (it’s OK now, you can come outside, the sun is back) has surely seen the ad. A sultry football-padded only, decidedly non-German-looking, cheerleader / footballer saying (via telekinesis I assume) “See you!”. It’s friggin’ ubiquitous–hype for the Berlin [...]

What up space monkeys (ok, maybe I would just describe myself that way)? I wonder if St. Valentine and St. Patrick ever, you know, hung out. Ney, prolly not.
Last night we did some birthday celebrations (mad props P) and, after a nice meal of Spanish tapas and red wine (once again, props P), we some [...]

Exeunt.

Enter Caesar, Antony for the Course, Calphurnia, Portia, Decius, Cicero, Brutus,
Cassius, Caska, a Soothsayer: after them Murellus and
Flauius. Caes. Calphurnia

Cask. Peace ho, Caesar speakes

Caes. Calphurnia

Calp. Heere my Lord

Caes. Stand you directly in Antonio’s way, when he doth run his course. Antonio

Ant. Cæsar, my Lord

Caes. Forget not in your speed Antonio, to touch Calphurnia: for our [...]

Having ended brutally–and deliciously.
Today’s hotness can be found in da Tuna da Week. -bp

You know a nice thing about Berlin–especially when its still snowing outside and hitting -9°C at night–is its network of public swimming pools, the Berliner Bäder Betrieb. One of the nicest is right smack in the middle of Kreuzberg 36 on Wienerstrasse (my new favourite street), Bad am Spreewaldplatz. I would describe it, but I’ll [...]

What the Hello Kitty?1 These snow showers are getting ridiculous. And I usually like snow. I don’t know if it’s the greenhouse effect or Russia or karmic revenge, but it’s friggin’ March for crying out loud. Actually it could just be what the oldsters call ‘nerves’ or relational disharmony on my part — when it [...]

Hey kids! Did you know that globalization is not all fun and games for everybody? That it also has a pretty stinky downside too? That maybe, just maybe, nearly everything Thomas Friedman spouts is a bit off. No, but seriously, Berlin’s 8-day anti-globalization (’-sation’ for you Brits) film festival starts today. Check it out.
(die tageszeitung [...]

Yeah, it’s one of those existential Wednesdays when everything takes on a fuzzy tone of samsara and when it rains it pours (well actually it has been snowing nearly every night for a coupla weeks now, then the snow cover melts by around 10:00 so any late-risers would probably have no idea that the city [...]

For some reason I have that song stuck in my head (I think it’s a disco song, even) about ‘turn the beat around’ and ‘love the sound of percussion’. Then it alternates to Seeed’s Ding (see Tuna da Week), then back to ‘turn the beat around’. And that’s about it for what’s rattling around in [...]

…now for some shameless (neighbor) promotion:
be there or be quadratisch…

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Universal Music Germany was one of a truckload of mega corporations that moved to Berlin around 1999-2001 during the Big Berlin Hype. That was before a steady stream of unemployment, a sluggish economy (now ever so slightly revitalizing) and mp3s (aka the anti music establishment revolution) put the hammer down on revenue culled from 18-euro [...]

So I’ve been diagnosed with a rare disease that makes me see every number as a ‘7′ — ha, ha, just kidding. Gotcha! March fools! Obviously lacking for content today, I thought I’d just play a funny on all y’alls. Burn. Feel the burn. I was just funnin’.
My Name is Earl – just saw the [...]