TQE | That Queer Expatriate

Expatriate, not ex-patriot: I'm a progressive liberal and queer American in Berlin, Germany. My roots in include 18 years in Denver, 6 in Laramie, Wyoming, 6 in Bloomington, Indiana, and 6 in Weimar, Germany. Sense a pattern? Don't want to leave a comment on this blog? Email scintillatingme at gmail.com, username "elmadaeu"

I surf too much…

So I wrote awhile back about my internet solution for my temporary home and how fantastic it is.

Well, I ran into a problem: it has a 3GB per month limit and I hit the limit last week.

I’d been careful for the most part, but there’s a slight problem with iTunes: when I connect [...]

July 29th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: Diary | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

always hard 2 red

I must come out of the closet: I am a spelling and grammar Taliban.

Maybe that’s a bit too dramatic. I’m not perfect and I do take shortcuts along the way.

Ultimately my goal is to communicate ideas—and each as clear as possible.

I’ve ceded some strict middle- and high-school rules. I’m not as insistent [...]

December 21st, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Media Criticism, Meta/Computing | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

Poor Design

As I noted yesterday (for the umpteenth time), Weimar is in love with Goethe and Schiller.

It also fancies itself as the European Capital of Culture—which is was nearly a decade ago in 1999. The trappings of refinement are everywhere you go in Weimar—Goethe and Schiller are fêted as heroes, art museums are celebrated, and [...]

October 26th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Deutsche Kultur | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)

Bear-ly Mobile

Lunch today could have been a scene from Bear Cub, a rapid-fire Spanish flick about a bear and his bear-friends. The Chief Bear was left his nephew to raise when the nephew’s Mother did something really stupid in a foreign country.

Great film, but back to lunch.

It could have been a scene from Bear [...]

July 10th, 2007 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Amusing Amerika | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Exhausted

Today was an exhausting day—and the weather could not have been better!

I have not regretted leaving my heavy winter coat back in Deutschland.

Anyhow, I got up early this morning—5:30 early, the second day in a row that I’ve woken up at that time. It’s actually progress because the previous two days, I woke [...]

March 27th, 2007 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Trips | Comments are closed

It really is common here…

Apparently I wasn’t the only person texting/smsing in America… protesters are using it as a tool in New York City.

If you have a cell phone and can text me, let me know… I’ve been known to send text messages when on the road.

September 2nd, 2004 | Tags: , | Category: Deutsche Kultur | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)