Pictures from my life #6

Pictures from my life #6
I met up with Ms. X (co-founder of my not-really-a-book-club Book Club) this afternoon. She's been in town over Christmas break (these days, she's mostly in England working on getting her master's). There's really no such thing as a "quick meeting…

R.A.P statt E.K.G

R.A.P statt E.K.G
First show, done & done. Sorry that I didn't make a big annoucement. I had a lot of things on my mind and I just wanted to get the first show out of the way. Just to say, "Hey...I did it...it worked". And when I say "I", I mean "We"…

Frohes Neues (aka Happy New Year)

Frohes Neues (aka Happy New Year)
I'm back in Hamburg. It's a new year, a new decade. I think I'll start it up by telling you about how last year ended. The advantage in ending 2008/starting 2009 in such a spectacularly disasterous fashion was that it set the bar pretty low for New Year'…

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Byron Hurt's Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes I've been meaning to watch this documentary for a couple of years ever since I heard about it on Poplicks , way back when. I finally got around to it over Christmas....it's good, real good...and it's on G…

xmas 2009: vegan food + spaziergang + kafka + presents

xmas 2009: vegan food + spaziergang + kafka + presents
Our actual Christmas celebration was...different. Even though it was a reflection of our own personal tastes, there was still a (perhaps unconscious) integration of some of the family traditions practiced by C.Dub and Frosty's family. We decided against getting a…

xmas 2009: barneby

xmas 2009: barneby
Barneby is quickly becoming my favorite location in Dresden. We (well, I) went there the first time back in June. It's a spacious and comfy bar where the drinks/food are affordably priced and you can choose from a bunch of board games. Four hundred and sixty-five,…

xmas 2009: culture/food/shopping

xmas 2009: culture/food/shopping
Sometimes I think to myself that I should take more time to expand my cultural horizons by going to the museum or theater or whatever in Hamburg. But then I think to myself that it's not really necessary, because I make up for all of it whenever I come to visit Fro…