(This looks like becoming a regular feature.)
Penguin Poems and Prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Boekenmarkt, Spui). “[T]he achieve of, the mastery of the thing!” (It’s unfair to the man, I know, devout Jesuit as he was, but … can’t you just see him in a singles bar? “Yeah, I write poems, about God, and skylarks, and how much I [...]
Animals Have Problems Too. (Previously in this series: White Ninja gets a Kiwi. Ok, two isn’t a series — so get out there and get drawing!)
Update: That’s more like it: “kiwi en kiwi gaan nergens over,” among others. (Thanks Jacob!)
The Black Seeds are coming back, as promised, and playing Blijburg on September 3rd as part of a two-day festival. I know it’s early notice, but this is for the Dutch folks, so they can put it in their agendas while there’s still space. You don’t want to miss this one. (Kiwis and expats: this [...]
So the bakfiets moving went excellently — three trips piled high with boxes, computer, sewing machine, and 15 kilogram watermelon. It’s a good thing I don’t have a bed, there’s barely space for one in my room any more.
Some observations about the bakfiets: (What is that in English, anyway? Cargo tricycle? Big-bike-with-a-box?)
People ask you for [...]
It’s been a good week for books. I mentioned already De Avonden (Boekenmarkt, Spui) and The Princess Bride (The Book Exchange, Kloveniersburgwal). The same trip netted me Peter Høeg’s A History of Danish Dreams (his Borderliners is a great favourite of mine) and John Crowley’s Little, Big (I’d been hanging out for a copy ever since [...]
I’ve been reading Gerard Reve’s De Avonden: a classic of Dutch literature and truly fantastic, but deeply depressing. So when I happened upon The Princess Bride at my local 2nd-hand bookstore, I took an evening out to rampage through it, for some light relief. The night after, I finished De Avonden and, having enjoyed the [...]