hello everybody,
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 10:00 pm
i just called to say i love you.
greetings to all from this part of the world. i was gone for a while... i spent new year's eve in berlin with some splendid people and i can report that that town is still one of the most interesting on earth.
man, those new year's parties! i was in this giant apartment in eastern berlin, looking across a boulevard to an apartment bloc in which there were at least a dozen parties going on. you could see old communist geezers dancing round the mistletoe as well as youngish punkish types. the typical berlin mix as such.
and berliners really go for the explosives and the booze. one popular activity was to aim your fireworks at any window that happened to be open. quite numerous were the times when we, looking outside, ducked and closed the windows and ran for cover. and took a good swig of whatever we needed to regain our mojo.
and those berliner women! you get the smart and the sexy, the intelligent and the debauched, all in one package but in many different flavors. i have said it before (not here though, so i'll say it again): i will move to berlin once my daughter moves out to go to college, and/or when my mom has passed away. most probably within this decade (have i just said something awfully morbid?)
it's not just the women, or the parties. for example, it's the ultra-low cost of living -- somebody said berlin is the world's cheapest capital town. it's the bullet-pocked houses, the ubiquitary sense of history. it's the phenomenal bars and delicious-but-affordable ethnic eateries. it's how the yuppies, the gentrifiers, are fenced-in, to the point of near-invisibility. it's the russians, the poles, the politicians of international repute whom you see shopping in supermarkets, casually. it's the lakes, the perverts, the dynamism.... ok i know i am getting tedious but i am german, so give me a break, this is my way of expressing enthusiasm.
speaking of giving a break, what's up with paxacidus? is it just my general momentary disinterest with all things american or is the bb awfully... normal? marky is working and listening to music, pixie is eating, tommy is moving and parenting, mc is trying to write and is trying not to drink, myke is trying to be conscientious, sara is picking up the pieces... but what about some wackiness? what about some controversy? how about some participation in the book club? some sexual confidentiality? some rosie-influenced insanity? (i do not forget that tom is bright-eyed, bushy-tailed and interestingly homosexual, but it takes more to make an engaging bulletin board).
i just called to say i care.
greetings to all from this part of the world. i was gone for a while... i spent new year's eve in berlin with some splendid people and i can report that that town is still one of the most interesting on earth.
man, those new year's parties! i was in this giant apartment in eastern berlin, looking across a boulevard to an apartment bloc in which there were at least a dozen parties going on. you could see old communist geezers dancing round the mistletoe as well as youngish punkish types. the typical berlin mix as such.
and berliners really go for the explosives and the booze. one popular activity was to aim your fireworks at any window that happened to be open. quite numerous were the times when we, looking outside, ducked and closed the windows and ran for cover. and took a good swig of whatever we needed to regain our mojo.
and those berliner women! you get the smart and the sexy, the intelligent and the debauched, all in one package but in many different flavors. i have said it before (not here though, so i'll say it again): i will move to berlin once my daughter moves out to go to college, and/or when my mom has passed away. most probably within this decade (have i just said something awfully morbid?)
it's not just the women, or the parties. for example, it's the ultra-low cost of living -- somebody said berlin is the world's cheapest capital town. it's the bullet-pocked houses, the ubiquitary sense of history. it's the phenomenal bars and delicious-but-affordable ethnic eateries. it's how the yuppies, the gentrifiers, are fenced-in, to the point of near-invisibility. it's the russians, the poles, the politicians of international repute whom you see shopping in supermarkets, casually. it's the lakes, the perverts, the dynamism.... ok i know i am getting tedious but i am german, so give me a break, this is my way of expressing enthusiasm.
speaking of giving a break, what's up with paxacidus? is it just my general momentary disinterest with all things american or is the bb awfully... normal? marky is working and listening to music, pixie is eating, tommy is moving and parenting, mc is trying to write and is trying not to drink, myke is trying to be conscientious, sara is picking up the pieces... but what about some wackiness? what about some controversy? how about some participation in the book club? some sexual confidentiality? some rosie-influenced insanity? (i do not forget that tom is bright-eyed, bushy-tailed and interestingly homosexual, but it takes more to make an engaging bulletin board).
i just called to say i care.
