Claire and Francis. Two nice names. Not two nice people. Their marriage is a vow: to succeed. Failure is not an option, as they say. I am not sure yet how far they would go. He might go farther than she does, that is so far the impression. [more]

Blessing Jones Martins 11. Oktober 17:29 Hallo, ich bin Segen, bitte wie du bist! hoffe, Sie sind fein und in einwandfreiem Zustand der Gesundheit.Ich ging durch Ihr Profil und ich las es und fand Interesse an, bitte, wenn Sie nicht stört, ich werde Sie mir auf diese ID [more]

A Frenchman’s declaration of love to Brooklyn

Außerdem würde ich die Sixtinischen Pages gerne dazu missbrauchen, Tagebuch zu führen, und dabei auch gleich erklären, warum das gut gegen Gedächtnisschwund ist. Ein erstes Item über einen ganz fundamental wichtigen Schlaftraum, den ich gerade vorgestern hatte, über die Honigsteins, eine hochinteressante Sippschaft aus meiner heimischen Frankfurter jüdischen [more]

Jocelyn Alice. Canadian Singer. I heard her on a Target commercial and there was the shiver of greatness through the pop–a version of “So Groovy,” that was so powerful I had to find her. Glad for the useful magic of Youtube. She’s a great singer because she’s a [more]

  i can only recommend visiting lithuania. apart from having wifi in their taxis here (what else do you want after arriving in a foreign country?), there is also an such an amount of really interesting shows, performances, screenings, talks, that i sometimes thought i am still in berlin…especially the talks [more]

In 1985, George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley of Wham! embarked on a lengthy world tour, which would eventually culminate in a ground-breaking 10-day visit to China – the first ever by a Western pop group. One of their two managers – Simon Napier-Bell and Jazz Summers – had dreamt [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World He beckoned me through an open door behind the counter into a big windowless kitchen. Next to a long wooden table whose surface was dusted with flour [more]

In Silicon Valley you don’t talk much about the weather (which is always roughly the same). Instead, you small-talk about the 101: ‘So how was traffic today?’. ‘D’you see any accidents?’. Highway 101 is Silicon Valley’s notorious spine, consuming as much as 3 hours of a commuter’s life [more]

“Is there not one way in which animals, instead of disappearing, continue to multiply? Never have there been so many household pets as are to be found today in the cities of the richest countries. In the United States, it is estimated that there are at least forty [more]

Foto*Grafo *27, Campinas, 6*19*89, Brasil, A*R*L fundado este desebho em 1961 (este quadro costa 15 cruzados.)

travelin man running away with my heart .there i am left dazed and confused ,not to mention without a heart! all i see is black green and grey.Lord have mercy on my heart

Finally in Paris the first thing I did was going to my favorite shopping mall Le Bon Marché, Bourgeois Culture and Department Store, founded in 1838 and then enlarged by a new building designed by Gustav Eiffel in 1869. Not comparable to Galerie Lafayette or Le Printemps. It [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World How I came to live and work in a bakery, and demonstrated my powers My stay in the Official Orthodox Holy Giver House of Francisco Kingdom lasted [more]

Years ago, we always made jokes about Christopher Roth. Every time there was picture of Hugh Grant in a gossip rag like “Gala”, we would show it to Christopher and tell him, how he looked like Hugh Grant. Of course Christopher hated that, as Hugh Grant at that [more]

Black is water, blue is dense vegetation, pink are paths, brown is meadow, carmine red are blooming areas. The trees were never surveyed, but their location is known to the gardeners who use this plan for their periodical maintenance chores. The lack of budget in the administration allows [more]

It is not the human subject that is infinite, but death. But this infinity only exists for a finite subject.

An Tagen wir diese(n) denkt man an den Verrat des Andersseins und an die große Versprechen des oder der ewig Linken und Linkischen inmitten singender Vokalakrobaten für den ewig einigenden Weltfrieden des gütlichen Machterhalts zugunsten einer Anklageschrift für andere Tage wie diese(n) als Revanche entgegen den Zeitgeist mit [more]

sculpture, seated (wooden chair, cardboard). Edinburgh the chair enjoys gravity, interprets and interpolates it, its probably what brings joy to a chair

Il s’est assoté d’une femme qui le ruinait. Elle était une véritable escroqueuse. L’incorrigibilité de son caractère scandalisait tout le monde. Elle en était consciente. Mais néanmoins elle continuait à escroquer cet homme et d’en vivre opulemment. Assoter, escroqueuse, incorrigibilité & opulemment Removed from the official French dictionary [more]

Berlin   Plastic   Classicism   Displayed   walking past her   wall mounted listening device, Edinburgh, Scotland   shore based listening device, Glasgow, Scotland

So Alice Munro has won the Nobel Prize for Literature 2013, and everybody is content as they should be because: the first Canadian, a woman with grey hair and bright eyes, a “master of the short form” is something to be content about. A good thing. Well, I [more]

Unsettling image: Two men in suits stand in front of 300 coffins. Two representatives of fortress Europe, their heads bowed, look at wooden boxes in which lay: bodies of people, who a couple of days earlier had their eyes fixed towards the north: Europe. Calling their deaths a [more]

Miese Laune. Warum? Dies war einmal eine Lichtinstallation. Es war meine Lichtinstallation in der Universitätsbibliothek Konstanz. Bis der ganze Bau 2010 wegen Asbestbelastung geschlossen wurde. Nach drei Jahren ist die Sanierung abgeschlossen und das Gebäude ist wieder ein Rohbau. Alle RGB Leuchten sind wahrscheinlich entsorgt. Die Tische, Eames [more]

Memory to myself… “The big city can be like a kraken. Leave it as often as possible and know that it’s worth it.” “Ah… and don’t forget the slackline.”

Today is World Dog’s Day. A few years ago I had for the first time a revolving dream. It was about a dog. It went on for about three weeks until I went for a tooth treatment to my friends dentist practice. The appointment after mine had cancelled, [more]

I would like life to be harder. I try in vain to make it so but come up against an ever-present comfort that I cannot see in its detail or its gigantic totality. This comfort engulfs our dreams of rebellion leaving me wondering what went right and how [more]

Today is World Dog Day. Or Day of the Dog. Dog’s Day?

I went with some friends to the Shinjuku Golden Gai (新宿ゴールデン街). Although it has become a merely hang-out for gaijins (foreigners) like myself, it is still an amazing place to get to talk to Japanese people. Usually there are only around 4 to 6 seats, so if you happen to [more]

MoL spends lonely-guy nights with Netflix. Two episodes of Breaking Bad a session, two bottles of Asahi beer (product placement). Watched BB show finale the night before last. MoL’s lips are sealed. Mmm. Moving on, House of Cards, a UK show years ago — ok; not that great [more]

The first instance of talented assemblage of words in Iphgenia Baal’s biography must be credited to her parents for giving her her name. She carries both parts of it with equal amounts of dignity and disdain. In Homer, Iphigenia is the daughter of Agamemnon, destined to be sacrificed [more]

WeChat or 微信 Weixin is one of my favourite things in China. It’s like WhatsApp plus social networking, only better in a Chinese way, and has about 300 million users. After a night of running around and away all over Beijing in August, from strangely luxurious basement hotel [more]

From James Baldwin’s The Devil Finds Work (1976): Sylvia Sidney was the only American film actress who reminded me of a colored girl, or woman–which is to say that she was the only American film actress who reminded me of reality. All of the others, without exception, were white, [more]

Fein? Lustig? Nicht so lustig? Ist ja auch egal. Da ich – so teilte mir es der edle, gutangezogene Georg mit, dessen dem Betrachter ins Auge stechende Hornbrille ich köstlich finde – als Blogger Nummer 21 an den Start gehen würde, entschloss ich mich, über mein 21. Lebensjahr [more]

I had to send a parcel, so I went to a US Post Office. Unfortunately, the contents were wrapped in a commercial box, which wouldn’t do. And so when I arrived at the post office, I covered it with the largest official US Post Office envelope that I [more]

We Did Stop!

“Indeed, one of its appeals to the wealthy, and in particular to hedge funders, is that as a currency, art is far more manipulable than most other currencies, save perhaps drugs. If it is not the most corrupt business, art is certainly one of the most loosey-goosey and [more]

Off as I may claim to be, life is tremendously bourgeois. Don’t get me wrong I like it. I would eat more steak if only there were time but I don’t make it. As I go on consuming people seem ever less new. Problems are ever more remote [more]

Berliner, I know it sounds strange, but you might want to see this. You will be bored in between, because Russell is too hysterical, too weird and might talk too long. BUT, as we know and remember a couple of weeks ago, the guy has something to say. [more]

Die Welt  (Forum-Hotel) Martin Fengel Private Collection, Lichtenberg

A wild boar stands in the middle of a perfectly round sand box. This animal is carved out of scavenged stones from the ruins of post war Berlin. It is part of the large playground near the Lutherbrücke, in the proximity of Haus der Kulturen der Welt. There [more]

The human subject has never been anything but a specter. The rift that divides it cuts through it from the very beginning by making it teeter on the cutting edge between presence and absence, infinity and finitude, ideality and reality. That man disappears “like a face drawn in [more]

A drawing a day keeps the doctor away. A message a day makes resistance stay.

Not only French men are dramatic, the whole city of Paris is a constant drama, at least for me. Every time I arrive something unpleasant happens. Mostly it’s the RER the French pendant to the German S-Bahn (English: commuter trains). My favorite topic. Either the conductors are striking [more]

MoL says everyone come to London and check out http://www.testcentre.org.uk The Test Centre | 24th Oct – 24th Nov Test Centre will team up with its roster of writers, recording artists and associates to present a month of events, a rolling exhibition, and a pop-up shop. The Test [more]

If the American Empire is really to fail, like all empires before it and after it, it will at least be well documented. There it is all, paranoia, autodestruction, total failure: the collapse of society on all levels as shown on The Wire, the collapse of the individual [more]

A pool at night and a portable water filter. Not more, not less.