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Kids, Alike

This morning I was reading Metropolitan Diary, one of my favorite weekly columns in The New York Times.

It’s a collection of little vignettes about life in the Big Apple. People submit their stories about every day encounters and the best are published; like Overheard in NY, but more severely edited, so it’s better.

Today […]

Brilliant

See The New York Times, as read by Conservatives.

Via The Stranger Blog.

Walking

Phallic Crossing

Originally uploaded by elmada.

Now that I’m living in Germany, I no longer own a car and I’ve become accustomed to either walking everywhere or taking public transportation.

Sadly, in Bloomington, public transportation is a fantasy, so I’ve resorted to a borrowed car to get me around town—to and from the […]

Weimar

There’s an article about Weimar in today New York Times.

Fire Follow-Up

For more on the fire, this time in native English, see Saturday’s New York Times article, “Literary Treasures Lost in Fire at German Library.”

via Professor Baptista

Denver, Colorado

A funny thing occurred to me on my way to the very gay Diedrichs at the corner of 9th and Downing in the gay Denver neighborhood. Somewhere between 1992 and today, either I’ve become cooler or Denver’s become cooler.

No longer does Denver seem to suck so badly. I think I can actually understand why […]