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Apologies to Hüsker Dü.
On the way back from fetching smokes at the gas (petrol) station just now, I noticed three cops forcibly hauling a drunken (and stiffly resistant) man off of a bus station bench (corner Mecklenburgische Straße and Heidelbergerplatz) and into a police car. Then I noticed, hey, that car’s not green, it’s friggin’ [...]

Items worth checking yourself (naturally, before wrecking yourself):
Isreali forces are warning Gaza residents by phone right before their houses get blown up.

GoogleTalk just added a few nice features, incl. file transfer and voicemail. Nice.
Walmart is leaving Germany. Apparently workers uniting is a bit too friendly.

impunity n. Exemption from punishment, penalty, or harm.
[Latin impnits, from impne, without punishment : in-, not; see in-1 + poena, penalty (from Greek poin.).]
Hizbullah retorts that it needed all these weapons as a deterrent of its own. Israel did after all invade Lebanon and occupy bits of it for 22 years. But it was utter [...]

David Hasselhoff’s new video, Jump In My Car, leaves me awestruck and dumbstruck. For starters, I dare you to guess what car he’s talking about. Anyway, now I finally know just how hard it is to hold your ears and scratch your eyes out at the same time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgX-hiQdfFw
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So, as Yuhang notes in the comments (see right), I was singled out for a walk-by kiss on the cheek last weekend at the Christopher Street Day (Pride) Parade (not the Love Parade, actually, which would have been more my ’scene’ being that I’m a bit more hetero-decadent than gay-decadent*). By a guy, OMG! Scandal. [...]

No, this really doesn’t have to do with Pepsi’s recent hijacking and massacre (figuratively, of course) via Christina Aguilera of Volkswagen’s TV-ad usage circa 1997 of the hit pop single from Germany’s Trio, boasting the full title, Da Da Da ich lieb dich nicht du liebst mich nicht aha aha aha.
No, actually this [...]

I was inspired by yet another post at metroblogging (and by the same author no less), to recall one of the greatest noodle joints in Berlin, To Loc on Wiener Str., across from Spätzle Express. They serve up massive bowls of Indo-Chinese style noodles for around 5€. The place is almost always hoppin’ in the [...]

It is with piqued interest that I read at metroblogging about the newly opened DDR Museum. The German Democratic Republic (DDR = GDR in English) carved out its own parellel-universe culture, however un-democratic, for 40 years after WWII. Even as it asserted its own right to exist against the ‘fascist’ West (the Wall, for instance, [...]

I was pretty psyched last year when I heard that Richard Linklater’s version of Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick’s tour de mindf*ck, was coming to theatres this September. Then it suddenly came out last week without me having finished the book yet (I’m at Chapter 7). Then I left my paperback copy on the U-bahn [...]

I don’t know who made the first move, the mainstream news, the tabloids or the blogs (really, what’s the difference anyway?), but yesterday’s verbs for Bush’s ‘Liebes-Attacke’ on Merkel as ‘massage’ are already being replaced by ‘fondle’ and ‘grope‘. Not to mention revived doubts about Dubya’s IQ and/or cultural sensitivity (or lack altogether).
Meanwhile, European counterpart [...]

BusinessWeek has an interesting piece (wha?) on how West Berliners are miffed about the flow of influence and investment, seemingly away from them, to the hipper East. East Siiide (flash them gang signs). They call it a ‘new cold war’, between ‘City West’ and ‘City East’. Now I don’t know about all that, but:
Before German [...]

With the World Cup Fan Mile occupying most of June and the Love Parade happening a coupla days ago, Brandenburger Tor (Gate) has been landing on many a front page this summer. Not to be outdone:
From Reuters Alertnet: Palestinian and Lebanese protesters shout anti-Israeli slogans and hold up recent news pictures showing injured children [...]

Bush, George W. is turning into some kind of Jerry Lewis figure on the international circuit. Not to ‘beat a dead horse’ (I prefer ‘continue a theme’) but here are two more equally Schadenfreudisch (?) items Bush recently contributed at the otherwise uneventful G8 meeting, which ended yesterday in Russia. Plus, a third totally unrelated [...]

Wow. I cannot not post this one. Here is Jon Stewart’s 2-minute treatment of US Prez George Bush in Germany last week at a press conference with Chancellor Angela Merkel. Regardless of urgent questions from the press crews following the bombing of Beirut, he’s fixated on one particular thing, ein Schwein essen. (This clip shows [...]

There are a couple ways of understanding the word tweak (urban dictionary has 32), which is why I like it.
(1) to be under the influence of methamphetamine. ‘Man i got all tweaked two days ago and i’m still awake’ (2) (n.) methamphetamine, (v.) the act of consuming methamphetamines, ‘Where might I find some tweak’, ‘He [...]

Am I seeing things, or is the Love Parade sponsored by a weight-lifting banana? I get it kinda. The company is a health club chain so in the interest of promoting fitness, you combine a banana with a set of dumbells. OK. At least it made sense in the boardroom. That’s alright though, cause [...]

As is well-known enough, the blast from the recent past — LOVE PARADE — is landing on Berlin this weekend. Nobody seems to know about how many people are actually gonna show up (or whether techno is even ‘cool’ any more). The closest estimates, however, seem to lie somewhere between 12 drunks who just woke [...]

Man. All this talk about NATO repositioning in eastern Europe and the US putting the moves on Russia gives me a serious case of Cold War nostalgia. What great times those were (I say only half sarcastically). As a kid growing up in 1980’s Reagan America, I wasn’t so scared of the communists as I [...]