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Hey, hey, Gene Pritsker! Podcast: Play in new window | Download I had to be 52 years old to learn how a quince (german: Quitte, french: coing) looks like: Yesterday evening we had a spontaneous dinner with good friends in Bremen where we had swordfish, salmon and sugar beans which came with the last qince of the season here – havested in their backyard garden! As starter a piece of delicious quince cake with a thick meringue-cover, hmmm! Until now I only knew quince-jelly as a bread spread coming from the shelves in good organized supermarkets. Thank you very much for that new experience of this big yellow, firm fruit and the dinner yesterday, Jutta and Mark! Making a little stroll through the fields on the countryside to one of the windmills…
 Meat factory - sterile and it is only then, when we realize that we are in the middle of several large-scale livestock farming buildings. It looks like a science fiction setting: the buildings are behind a fence and look extremely clean. Everything: the outside walls, the paved outside of the building, it looks almost sterile. Then we discover the trace of little pebble-stones that cover supposedly the trench where they put the high-power line of the wind-turbine into the ground and we realize that the trace leads towards the red red buildings of the meat factory. We decide to stop immediately that habit of eating unconsciously meat and sausage from the super market, to reduce the amount of ‘unconsciously swallowed factory meat’. Instead we will buy from the organic butcher from now on. Even if that means that we’ll have meat only once a week or even less. Walking back a green colored structure draws our attention. Clean, 6 feet high, with an attached mailbox on the side. We get closer, see there is a not secured top lid of the perhaps 4 x 5 ft. wide box we can open: inside clean again, refrigerated, a shiny stainless steel cart and we assume it might be something for dung or dirt or??? But why should it make sense to refrigerate manure? A look-up on my iPhone enlightens us: Euratainer – oh fuck! A refrigeration box for carcasses! Modern life on the countryside. "Zurückbleiben! – Stand back!" Wednesday I made a trip to Berlin for two days. Unbelievable how this city still is full of contradictiions, wit, fascination, thrill, horror – everything next to one another. Beauty and history, urbanity and park landscapes co-existing. That is the reason why Berlin still is The Brandenburg Gate . . . → Read More: Oh, Berlin The other day I discovered a couple of phantastic songs on my iPhone. Music we got from our friends Karen and Martin in Dresden, I think. In the early beginnings of the cold war, Bertold Brecht wrote an alternative antional anthem for Germany, after Western Germany chose the “Lied of the Germans” (with some very . . . → Read More: Another German Anthem – even if it’s possibly outdated Since ‘Siebenschläfer’ (german version of groundhog day) on June, 27th, we are enjoying this beautiful weather. Posted from Bremen, Bremen, Germany. After so many times freezing in the north of Germany it is the other way around for once. Here’s the proof: Petra on our terrace at 9 p.m. calling with Santa Barbara with pleasant 80 degrees F. in Bremen, while it’s in the lower sixties in California. . . . → Read More: Finally compensational justice Since the mock campaign video of Paris Hilton was released on August, 5th the short has been viewed more than 6.2 million times in the first week, driving traffic numbers to the highest levels. And then we learned that the most successful clip on the web was “The Landlord” by Will Ferrell: Hilton may just . . . → Read More: Paris Hilton Since long we didn’t post anything, but this one seems to be worth it… The story behind the song, the lyrics are here:It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward . . . → Read More: Barak Obama Unbelieveable! Years after little provincial towns in Europe finally the MTA turns to the 21st century:Arrival times indicated on the platforms! Bravo. Compare my post on 6/4/04. |
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