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jazzmatazz, originally uploaded by bpx.
Not that I’ll be able to make any of the shows (as I’m not wealthy and don’t
live in Charlottenburg), but there does seem to be some Brötzmann and some
Hancock bidness going on, so [...]
This post (currently with
one comment) was created on October 31, 2008 at 16:56 and categorized under General.
By the end of the week, McCain’ll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in Kindergarten.
–Barack Obama (thx)
This post (currently with
one comment) was created on October 30, 2008 at 16:26 and categorized under Communism, Obama, Politics.
Say what you like about the unbearable whiteness of being Ira Glass (really, do), but the disproportionately beloved and frequently enjoyable This American Life on Chicago Public Radio sure can pick some resonant and zeitgeisty tunes when they feel like it (though on the minus side, there are some Yo La Tengo songs they’ve recycled [...]
This post (currently with
one comment) was created on October 24, 2008 at 21:54 and categorized under Flashback, Music, Radio, Tuna.
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I’m always on the lookout for Wall era photos of my street corner, and this
book *Die Berliner Mauer 1961-1989*, from the Berlin Story Verlag, had a
couple. The houses belonged to the West; the sidewalks to the East.
Respectively [...]
This post (currently with
no comments) was created on October 19, 2008 at 0:37 and categorized under Berlin, History, Kreuzberg.
After where do I get real Chinese food? and where do I get real Mexican food? the most frequently asked culinary quandry for Americans new in Berlin (especially after mistakingly eating a Boulette) is: where can I get a decent hamburger around here? Of all places, tip magazin, one of Berlin’s two bi-weekly events magazines, [...]
This post (currently with
2 comments) was created on October 15, 2008 at 17:44 and categorized under Berlin, Food, Kreuzberg, Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg.
Trying to perfect my Berlinerisch in a birthday greeting today, I came across what looks to be a comprehensive listing of ‘happy birthday’ in a variety of German dialects — though I think the Schwizertitsch version is missing.
German: Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!
German-Badisch: Allis Guedi zu dim Fescht!
German-Bavaria: Ois Guade zu Deim Geburdstog!
German-Berlinisch: Ick wuensch da allet Jute zum Jeburtstach!
German-Bernese: Es [...]
This post (currently with
3 comments) was created on October 13, 2008 at 13:55 and categorized under Berlin, Germany.
One of the great things — perhaps the great thing — about last.fm is its built-in unspecificity, i.e. you can’t to exactly what you want, rather you get to listen to things similar to what you want, herein its indirect genius. So a few days ago, as this one played in living room ambience, Yuhang [...]
This post (currently with
no comments) was created on October 12, 2008 at 16:06 and categorized under China, Film, Music, Tuna.
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Last week when every article about monetary devestation to hit the wires needed a photo of some guy in the finance word expressing the sudden dawning of shock and dissapointment — usually by applying fingers to creased [...]
This post (currently with
no comments) was created on October 10, 2008 at 14:27 and categorized under Downer, Economics, Globalization.
I can think why Der Spiegel might have thrown caution to the wind a few weeks ago and decided to run essentially the same “Is Google Making Us Stupid” story right after The Atlantic did it: could it be they learned that The Atlantic, with that issue, doubled their monthly sales from 42,000 to 82,000? [...]
This post (currently with
no comments) was created on October 9, 2008 at 17:28 and categorized under Random.
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Achtung Ross County, originally uploaded by bpx.
This post (currently with
no comments) was created on October 8, 2008 at 19:03 and categorized under General.
My neighbor was relating to me last week how he and his girlfriend and her family, eating at a popular Italian restaurant just under Viktoriapark in south Kreuzberg, spotted Quentin Tarantino — who’s been living in and prowling around Berlin these days (Zitty sez Bergmannstraße and Mehringdamm), shooting his new movie with Brad Pitt — [...]
This post (currently with
5 comments) was created on October 8, 2008 at 17:28 and categorized under Berlin, Film, Kreuzberg, Mitte.
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which one is Ben’s brother?, originally uploaded by bpx.
hint: not the suity guy
This post (currently with
3 comments) was created on October 7, 2008 at 17:41 and categorized under General.
I’ve been wanting to post this for a while, especially with Sub Pop records celebrating its 20th anniversary this year and everyone one-upping each other citing their true favourite grunge band they were into way before that particular northwestern American scene got usurped by MTV poseurs like Candlebox, Sponge and — good Lord — Nickelback [...]
This post (currently with
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test to see if I really can post to this blog via email via flickr, originally uploaded by bpx.
If this works, it’ll be way cool.
This post (currently with
no comments) was created on October 7, 2008 at 17:29 and categorized under General.
this blog has seen better days, but I’ve got so many good excuses for my online absence you wouldn’t even believe it! Illness! Marriage! Work! An Actual Life! Alien Abduction! And that was just yesterday!
This post (currently with
one comment) was created on October 7, 2008 at 16:01 and categorized under Life.
Embedded video from CNN Video
This post (currently with
no comments) was created on October 3, 2008 at 15:59 and categorized under Life, Obama, Politics, Television, Video.
Die Zeit blogger Jörg Lau got my star spangled dander up a tad today describing Boston area infrastructure (and by (his) extension, America’s) — in the “power region” of MIT and Harvard even! — as laughable and amazingly unmodern. That was until I saw the the American Society of Civil Engineers has graded its current [...]
This post (currently with
no comments) was created on October 1, 2008 at 14:01 and categorized under China, Economics, Germany, USA.
