Happy B-day, DD

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One of my childhood heroes since I could read, and still today I fondly take one of my old comics and go through his adventures, all over again… Donald Duck turned 80 today, having made his first appearance in Disney’s short animated film The Wise Little Hen on 9 June 1931. Later on, Disney cartoonist Carl Barks took over […] Read More

Time off

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I couldn’t sleep most of the night – it was either way too warm up in my alcove, or, if I turned on the air-con, too noisy, and too cold. I fell asleep around 5.30 to the sound of the birds. So I slept long, had a slow start, and then looked for a laundromat… […] Read More

Rock the Vote

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Go and vote in the European Elections! It’s not something to take lightly. It’s been fought for for centuries. Or, the other way round… What would MADONNA do…? Rock The Vote / Madonna TV Commercial from Glenn O’Brien on Vimeo. Read More

Halbzeit

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Half time. It’s about seven months and two weeks. I was planning, saving and calculating for 15 months. So this is it. What is about to come will be shorter than what’s behind me. Weird thought. I have a very contradictory feeling about the past months… On one level, so much has happened that it […] Read More

Small world (again)

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Addemdum from Tokyo! I just received this pic of me and my former neighbors Tiziana and Andrea in a Starbuck’s in Tokyo. The world is so small. Andrea mailed me about my old apartment, and we figured out that we’d all be in Tokyo at the same time, so he arranged for me to ‘run’ […] Read More

24h plane travel

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I always found this animation fascinating. It depicts the various planes during a 24h cycle. You can see the massive transatlantic traffic, the line from South America over to their former mother countries, the enormous air traffic in the United States… I’ll be one one of these soon again!   Read More

5 months

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Today, five months ago, I arrived in Rio de Janeiro. It seems like an eternity. Then again: it also seems like just a few days ago that I thought: wow, four months! Time is really relative, and it’s playing its tricks on me. It seems to go faster and faster, the longer I travel, after […] Read More

Meeting Meryl

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It was a grey, rainy-ish day yesterday in Sydney so I went to the movies to finally see Meryl Streep in August: Osage County. It’s about a family reunion, and Meryl plays a sick pill addict. Prime stuff, like only she can do. It’s creepy, she’s so far out…. just brilliant. It won’t happen now, […] Read More

I’m through with you

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It happened. I walked through the first pair of shoes. I realize how much strain is being out on clothes if you wear the same stuff constantly. My t-shirts suffer, the jeans have holes (the very first pair was through in San Francisco already)… And now it’s time to say good-bye to these shoes.   Read More