certhas

I like riding the Tube.
I like dropping into a mass of people and letting go. Scanning the faces, imagining the thoughts and stories behind them. I see the business men in their suits and that group of girls that look like they just stepped off the stage of a West End musical. The nameless thousands. I watch them absorbed in their music or books,...
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Sehr sehr gut (und lustig): Volker Pispers, Chaostage:

Chaostage

"thema chaostage: ein paar tausend junge menschen, von mir aus spinner. die sind mit buntgefaerbten haaren, zerissenen klamotten, ring in der nase oder woses gerne haben, besoffen grhlend mit der bierdose durchde stadt gezogen. das nennen wir im rheinland karneval!

Ja, sagt der Karnevalist, aber der Karneval ist organisiert.
Ja, sagt der Punker, aber organisiertes Verbrechen...
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The best word in the German language is |Glck. It roughly is the intersection of happiness and luck and joy.

Glck

However this wonderful congregation of positive meanings in itself would not propel the word to it's status as the best word in the German language. No.

It is its sound that elevates it above the mere clutter of Spa or Freude. It is a...
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Just as I was intending to get more active on SG again I managed to pour some water on my Laptop. Intentionally. While trying to clean up the Coffee I had poured onto it before.

Basically, it doesn't work anymore.

See you later...

A physicists humour:

http://xkcd.com/

Kids and Cats...

I'm back on the Island.
Safely arrived in Nottingham.

Excuse my rather longish hiatus, sometimes real life is rather preoccupying, not just so much in terms of time but in terms of mental space as well.

I'm back and I promise I'll play catch up over the next few weeks. First goal: Join the SGUK group!

Lied vom Kindsein
- Peter Handke


Als das Kind Kind war,
ging es mit hngenden Armen,
wollte der Bach sei ein Flu,
der Flu sei ein Strom,
und diese Pftze das Meer.

Als das Kind Kind war,
wute es nicht, da es Kind war,
alles war ihm beseelt,
und alle Seelen waren eins.

Als das Kind Kind war,
hatte es von nichts eine Meinung,
hatte...
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I need some new people to get drunk with.

The current group tends to get drunk into the morning just to start an indepth academic discussion on the concept of power as described by Luhmann.

....

I used to have a girlfriend
known as Elsie
With whom I shared
Four sordid rooms in Chelsea

She wasn't what you'd call
A blushing flower...
As a matter of fact
She rented by the hour.

The day she died the neighbors
came to snicker:
"Well, thats what comes
from to much pills and liquor."

But when I saw her laid out like a...
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Back from travelling.

Sziget in Budapest was great.

Radiohead was awesome.

The party in the Bavarian Woods likewise.

My current claim to fame: Getting drunk enough to mistake my friends bag for a toilet.