Below is my piece for the Wyoming Monologues, a performance put on at the University of Wyoming last night, March 8, 2013, following a performance of the Vagina Monologues. I owe a debt of gratitude to Ian, Stephan, Jay, Alexander, and Bonnie for their helpful comments during the writing process. Further, it would [...]
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Yesterday I engaged in a bit of random Berlin exploration – it started innocently enough with coffee from *$ — after my coffee, I popped outside and got on the first bus I saw, Bus 186. I recognized the last stop listed (S-Grunewald), but I had no idea how I would get [...] I realize, as I write this, that I am not about to post something that many of my Berlin friends will like, but I feel like saying it anyway. But first — the East Side Gallery, a 1.3 kilometer long piece of the Berlin wall, is going to have a 22 meter piece taken out [...] Berlin has many points of interest – and if you look, one Fernsehturm. Looking across Tiergarten toward Brandenburger Tor This month Berlin is busy celebrating 775 years – there are a number of parties, exhibitions, and other events honoring the city’s brief moment on the planet. Looking along Hauptstrasse toward Mitte – [...]
Snooker in Berlin pointed out that today was a fantastic day to see classic automobiles here in Berlin: The Hamburg-Berlin-Klassic, a three day road rally, reached its finish line in Berlin around 3pm.
She and I were there waiting for the first of some 185 automobiles to cross the [...]
One of the stops I made while visiting New York City in February was the National September 11 Memorial. I didn’t say anything about it then, but given that today is 9/11, it seems appropriate to bring it up.
Honestly, it was very well done – capturing, somehow, an [...] Saturday morning, after having breakfast with one of my oldest friends, we headed over to the brand new History Colorado Center – brand new as it opened only a couple months ago. The new museum replaces the old facility, which looked like a typewriter and was both one of my favorite buildings in downtown Denver [...] Today, June 23, 2012, marks the 100th birthday of Alan Turing, a man whose efforts helped break Nazi encryptions, and, consequently, end the war. He was even awarded an OBE for this. There’s no way I could do justice to him in this space. But I do want to focus on the fact that he [...] A week or so ago I got my first 2€ coin that celebrates 10 years of the Euro. ECB's info on this special coin. I have to say that I cannot help but wonder if this is, indeed, the moment to be celebrating the Euro. That said, I do believe this might be the [...] |
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