August 2010
4 posts
On the ruling: One up...Keep it moving!
I woke up on the right side of the bed today. After the recent historic ruling, I am filled with good thoughts about all that’s right in the world sometimes. And out of that I feel most compelled to congratulate all my fellow queer friends and all our supporters in the US and abroad! We all made it happen. And to those people in California who believe in equality and civil rights made their...
Reactions to California ruling on same-sex... →
Since I left china
It has been a long time since I last blogged about anything. Several months, actually. I am not sure where the time has gone, but it surely saw many things come and go, like visiting friends, holiday, and the oh-so distant bitter, cold weather to name a few. Just back from China I am feeling the fading relief on being back in a place where the space and lessened proximity to others was...
April 2010
2 posts
heavy grey skies, cold breeze, chance of rain…Berlin, you kill me many times over!
New EU research project: social network communication for early warning and health threat detection www.meco-project.eu/
February 2010
1 post
A control freak looks for love (hilar from...
Is your filing faultless? Your CDs, apostrophes, cutlery all in the right places? Can you eat a biscuit in the correct way? Then Jon Richardson (single for seven years, and counting) could be your ideal man… My last girlfriend was a loser. Literally. A wonderful and beautiful person, but prone to losing things; keys, money, credit cards, mobile phones. Each time she lost something, she...
January 2010
14 posts
The Gays going to the weddings of The Straights -...
ok. so spot on to a theme i have been coming back to this year, and have been meaning to respond about but havent been able to… for now, this brill bit:
butnotmine:
Hi smart readers!
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Lately I have been thinking about a topic I’d love to get your takes on (you gays in particular, but also you straights)!
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So, weddings: they keep happening. And for awhile, it was like, palpable...
we are the sum of our toxins...
t mentioned over dinner last night that no single cell in the body lives longer than 7 years. even memory cells. how fascinating! i mean, that means that memories are somehow transferred to growing cells as others die off. and to the question, if our cells die so quickly how do we exist in any given place, at any given time?, i naturally thought that, well, our bodies, composed of ever-changing...
Herring recipes | Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall →
Tegel, Germany Forecast →
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I am not a monarchist!
I have this foto of the queen hanging above our toilet, and several people who have visited have accused me of being a monarchist, which by all means isn’t true. but there is a hint of mainstream fascination with the queen, I will admit. and not the least because it is also linked to the popularisation of britain and things british (including the union flag and minis, the brown bettys,...
China
Picture of Chongqing.
Literal English:
Bed before bright moon shine Think be ground on frost Raise head view bright moon Lower head think home
English:
Before my bed, the moon is shining bright, I think that it is frost upon the ground. I raise my head and look at the bright moon, I lower my head and think of home
Li Bai. Thoughts on a still night.
at a dinner last night I met some...
kennedy un-legacy
disheartened by massachussetts recent decision for the senate. and fearful for republicans killing the health bill. added to daily monitoring of the gay marriage case. it’s all so reactionary. protectionist. elitist. ignorant. out dated. and it continues to come from the people. actually, i had forgotten those feelings of shame about my blue passport.
contemplating zeitgeist
after some spot on discussion with t about my previous post, i am convinced that the jist of my writing truly did have to do with some teetering around the way i have been experiencing zeitgeist. also spot on, i tend to deconstruct a bit, and also i find that a concept of a zeitgeist ignores the individual experience, interpretation. and so i go on relativizing that which isn’t really...
Untitled, January 2010
Start quote
Life is a series, a series of accidents,
Random accidents
Some good, some bad
End quote
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Beatles and Hendrix and the Stones, Patti Smith, not in that order
Later Cure, the Smiths, Elastica
Shown me by daughters of another world
Whom and that I admired
Penny loafers on cold days
When my bicycle betrayed me
And I started dreaming of the old world
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When I was thirteen I fell in love...
August 2009
2 posts
whats with this whole art thing anway? and why do i love it?
finished stata and off to yoga in lastarria
June 2009
4 posts
Late Night Conversations Between Two Friends
Colleen: You're leaving?
Katie: I have to go to church.
Colleen: Church?
Katie: Yeah, it's on Sunday.
Colleen: I don't keep track of church.
A Balade of Complaint
Compleyne ne koude, ne might myn herte never, My peynes halve, ne what torment I have, Though that I sholde in your presence ben ever, Myn hertes lady, as wisly he me save That Bountee made, and Beautee list to grave In your persone, and bad hem bothe in-fere Ever t’awayte, and ay be wher ye were. As wisly he gye alle my joyes here As I am youres, and to yow sad and trewe, And ye, my lyf...
May 2009
4 posts
NY Times feature on the Berlin wall →
http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/over-the-wall/
This guy isn’t necessarily one of my favorite Berlin-based NY-Times contributors, but this entry about the wall and the Bernauer neighborhood I share with him struck a chord.
Still lost among the suomalaiset
I am still in Helsinki at this microbiology and public health conference. It has been 4 days and I am near ready to get the hell out of here. Tomorrow I give my talk and then I will be flying back to Berlin in the evening. Finland has been a trip. Totally quiet and small, a bit Scandinavian but not in a Viking kinda way, mostly a weirder mix of very blonde, eastern Europeanish, forest dwelling,...
April 2009
2 posts
Paris and Chantal!
Ok. It has been a while. A long while. I have been tottering around when I would get back to writing on this thing, but this have been quite busy. Funny how it takes discipline to merge my cyberself with my realtime self. Or maybe I ain’t as saavy as many others are. A tad too old for growing up on tech and a tad too far from New York to be fully integrated via iLife. Ah well. In short,...
March 2009
4 posts
Obama's Oval Office →
Ok. It’s been a long time. I’ve been MIA and BAH (Busy As Hell). Saw this today and it is BRILLIANT!! Enjoy!
My favorites:
Bookcases have been added to either side of the fireplace to communicate the idea that this is a literate presidency.
…The most ghastly features of Bush’s incarnation are the sofas
#5!! 1. Pull-out Iraq map. 2. Kenyan hardwood abacus to regulate...
February 2009
20 posts
I just remembered how incredibly great it was sending IMs to T in the same office …
Oh, those crazy young people, when will they get... →
via nytimes: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/nyregion/18insure.html?hp Ok, I read “Getting by on 500K a year” but I can never stop being surprised by the ubiquitous elitist pseudo-critical voice that permeates the NYTimes. This article masks the true tragedy of health insurance in the US among the poor and disenfranchised when it comes to healthcare (including some of my closest...
ok, maybe not worst-
really, really having an innout craving…worst part of being expatriated…
Hat jemand Infos zu deutschen Integrationspolitik und Gesundheit bzw. aktuelle Epidemiologische-Methodik?
In an effort to link up with some of my everyday activites, I’ve standardized my twitter. Spread the word where appropriate! :)
Hat jemand Infos zu deutschen Integrationspolitik und Gesundheit bzw. aktuelle Epidemiologische-Methodik?
On the Edge of Night
My room and this vastness,
awake over the darkening land,-
are one. I am a string,
stretched tightly over wide
raging resonances.
Things are violin-bodies
full of murmuring darkness:
in it dreams the weeping of women,
in it the grudge of whole
generations stirs in its sleep …
I shall vibrate
like silver: then everything
beneath me will live,
and whatever wanders lost in things
...
Mondays can be rough.
Untitled #2
And he called me - a US democrat - an unabashed heteronormative pseudoliberalist! I mean, we read about homophobia as a form of physical harm, but I think verbal bashing of their lifestyle is only a part of the rhetoric of today, much like the name calling in pro- and anti-choice debates. Women’s rights are celebrated as an equal pay bill brings justification to women around the nation....