Whatever

November 11, 2014

Sausage Kulchur

And now for something completely different: Lithuania has a dilemma, the Perlentaucher reports, referring to an article by Viktoria Morasch in the taz: The country’s favorite sausage is called “the soviet” and uses old socialist...

Uncategorized / Whatever

July 4, 2014

It’s July 4th, Go Dancing!

Whatever

May 27, 2014

See What The Tide Schlepped In

Europe / Poetry / Whatever

May 19, 2014

Europe, A Poem?

Just back from Europe — where the elections for the European Parliament are heating up — though “heat” may be the wrong image to conjure, or seems only appropriate for the most rightwing fascoid...

Travel / Uncategorized / Whatever

May 12, 2014

A Morning in Luxembourg

I’m in grey, rainy (so what’s new?) Luxembourg for a vernissage (see this blog, here). Visit family & talk a long walk, then sit at the Place d’Armes (d’Plëss), drink coffee or Rosporter bubbly water, talk...

Whatever

May 11, 2014

Enjoy the Wonderful Ability of the Octopus…

… while I’m winding my way in a metal tube towards Europe for an exhibition & reading I spoke of earlier, here.

Poetry / Whatever

March 10, 2014

Charles Bukowski Called it Splitsville 20 Years ago

Henry Charles Bukowski, born Heinrich Karl Bukowski August 16, 1920, in Andernach, Germany died March 9, 1994 in Los Angeles. Poet, novelist, chronicler, drunk, & much more. A very accurate poem on la condition...

Cyberworld / Europe / Intellectuals / Poet / Whatever

March 1, 2014

The Great European Digital FreakOut

Ever since past summer’s revelations by the man-who-should-get-the-Nobel-Peace-Prize of the NSA’s global digital snooping, the Europeans have been freaking out. This morning my beloved France Culture had an hour long program discussing or rather...

Film / Interview / Whatever

January 25, 2014

& Cronenberg Interviews

… Via the German Perlentaucher site (my daily info place for Kulchural matters from Germany) I just came upon these long interviews with David Cronenberg (btw. the above is a still pix, not a...

Film / Whatever

January 24, 2014

See John Cassavetes Get A Haircut

YouTube comment: The Haircut (Tamar Simon Hoffs, 1982) A true gem of a film … you either get it or you don’t. If you get it, you never forget it. For a better quality...