On my way to work this morning, I heard a sheep bleating. A bit surprising, in the centre of Amsterdam, and especially when it seemed to be coming from a canal… Turned out to be this little guy:
I think he had a fish when I first saw him, I suppose he might have been calling [...]
I went into Scheltema this morning. I wasn’t even looking for a book… but I got sidetracked (it’s a five-storey bookstore, in retrospect it was inevitable). I got caught by this.
That’s Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip. (It’s actually “Volume 1″ of “The Complete…”, projected to run to five volumes, which to my mind [...]
Last night the Black Seeds played the Melkweg. I didn’t go, because today they were on the verandah of Timboektoe, a beach bar. So today I cycled to Wijk aan Zee… and got so lost along the way that I missed the gig.
I can’t post photos yet, for ridiculous technological reasons. I made a map, [...]
Joachim Fersengeld, a German, wrote his Pericalypse in Dutch (he hardly knows the language, which he himself admits in the Introduction) and published it in France, a country notorious for its dreadful proofreading. The writer of these words also does not, strictly speaking, know Dutch, but going by the title of the book, the English [...]
They’re filming Watchmen.
They’re filming Watchmen.
Whether it’s a train wreck or a triumph, I am seeing that film.
An old friend of mine has a new website, showing her awesome handmade jewellery.
You might also like to trot over to my sister’s site, aSpire Arts, and check out her weavings. Don’t bother trying to contact her though, she’s in Mongolia for a few months.
This morning at the breakfast table:
—Do you need the milk?
—No, there’s no cereal left.
—It’s very good with the biscuits. But I will not tell you, so I can eat them all myself.
… and the living is easy.
The book I’m reading is the first Narbonic collection, a previously-web comic about evil mad scientists; there are four more and a sixth on the horizon. The story’s over (and rerunning as “The Director’s Cut”, with commentary), the archives are open, you know what to do.
Sincere thanks to Freek for [...]
The papers are published in their original form, except for minor corrections (such as, at one point, changing “true” to “false” and at another “guilt” to “innocence”).
–Robert Stalnaker, in the acknowledgements to Context and Content.
At last! The Mardi Gras.bb have appeared on eMusic.
That is, they’ve shown up on the European site (they’re German, although you wouldn’t guess it from listening), with slightly different punctuation and case (I’m taking the regrettable .bb from their site — apparently it stands for “big band”) but the same glorious sound. The new album, [...]