This week, we lost one of our originals. If you’ve spent any time on the streets of Austin, Texas in the last two decades, you’ve very likely encountered Leslie. Here’s how the Austin American-Statesman reported on the death: Austin icon Leslie Cochran dies at age 60. It’s not an exaggeration to say that it got me… Continue reading the weirder they come
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irgendwo
You’ve probably noticed that I’ve been moving around quite a lot lately. Here and there. Every Tuesday in Poing, and last week some massive oversharing while I took this show on the road. While in Berlin, I scattered plenty of photos, visited tea shops/tearooms and generally tried to entertain the lot of you with things… Continue reading irgendwo
The Adventures of One Fancy World-Traveling Bon Vivant (with a jaunty hat)
I don’t know where Amy Durant at www.lucysfootball.com comes up with this stuff, but it’s hilarious. She takes snippets of reality, and weaves her spidery web of fantasy and madness. And this piece is all about my favourite character of all: me. Your sometimes less than humble lahikmajoe. And without further ado, here’s The Adventures… Continue reading The Adventures of One Fancy World-Traveling Bon Vivant (with a jaunty hat)
We’re going to the zoo
Do you remember Knut? This was not simply a German phenomenon. He became news around the world. Born in late 2006, Knut brought record numbers of visitors flocking to an already popular zoo. The story was compelling, because he was rejected by his mother and raised primarily by his handler Thomas Dörflein, who sadly died… Continue reading We’re going to the zoo
another day in Berlin
Typically, this blog is a lot of text and one well-chosen photo. The last several have been the opposite. Lots of visual impressions of Berlin, and not much interpretation. You certainly know I like to write about my thoughts, so I assure you that there’ll be some of that in the coming days. Alas, there’s… Continue reading another day in Berlin
Willkommen in Berlin
Arrived yesterday, and have already done quite a lot. As I travel through the city, I’m reminded of some of my favourite Berlin things, and even if I don’t do them on this trip, I’m going to talk about them here anyway. This is what you see first if you arrive by train. I’m a… Continue reading Willkommen in Berlin
Berlin, Berlin, wir fahren nach Berlin…
“Berlin is a skeleton which aches in the cold: it is my own skeleton aching. I feel in my bones the sharp ache of the frost in the girders of the overhead railway, in the iron-work of balconies, in bridges, tramlines, lamp-standards, latrines. The iron throbs and shrinks, the stone and the bricks ache dully,… Continue reading Berlin, Berlin, wir fahren nach Berlin…
How to Build a Speech-Jamming Gun
This is a simple idea, and immediately remind me of the mocking game many of us played as children. You wanted to irritate your sibling/best friend, so you simply repeated everything they said back to them. Depending on your tenacity and persistence, this could be a game that brought at least one of you hours… Continue reading How to Build a Speech-Jamming Gun
not just for leaplings
Although it’s not a holiday, Leap Day is one of my favourite days of the year. Call it scarcity. Point your accusatory finger at me and remind me that it’s just another day of drudgery…nothing to get excited about. Go ahead. You won’t temper my exuberance. It’s not that easy to do so anyway. First… Continue reading not just for leaplings
awake in the night chatting to bed-fellows
One of my favourite topics is sleep, but not only because I love sleeping so much. I have such a complicated relationship with sleep, and I’m not sure exactly how to go about explaining it. Some of my earliest memories are of desperately fighting for a later bedtime. My imagination led me to the certainty… Continue reading awake in the night chatting to bed-fellows