Since I am leaving Vienna in two short months and June 1st seems an appropriate day to reflect a bit on awesomeness, tonight I’m briefly revisiting my “List of 100 Awesome Things” that I compiled way back in November, before I knew much about this city. I’ve also added stuff throughout the year, and I’ve […]
Read more "100 Awesome Things, Revisited"This photo reminded me a song, “Lazarus” by Porcupine Tree, which is rather atypical for their sound but evokes something similar to what I feel when I’m in graveyards. Strange to think that the name Lazarus Drey once signified some haphazard combination of flesh and blood and consciousness, and now it’s just two words engraved […]
Read more "Evening Light in the Zentralfriedhof"Here’s some David Bowie, because it’s summer, I’m happy, and we all love to sing about ch-ch-ch-changes… Hi friends! My apologies for being remiss in rambling on about my recent life adventures for the past month or so. I spent four weeks in Strasbourg, France because of some family stuff, and although all’s well now, […]
Read more "Ch-ch-ch-changes!"Happy April Fool’s Day, everyone! I’m not going to pull any pranks for today (via the magic of the internet?), because for literally every year for my entire life, my father has begun the day by pulling the old, “Did you see the deer in the backyard?” trick on us. It didn’t matter if we […]
Read more "Poisson d’Avril"42. Visit the aquarium Last weekend, Mink, Adrian and I went to the Haus des Meeres for some science-y fun. The aquarium is housed in a converted bunker left over from WWWII, a concrete hulk of a building that looms menacingly in comparison to the charming buildings surrounding it. Written in huge letters on the […]
Read more "Haus des Meeres"I loved eating Zoodles as a kid. Except when the noodle animals came up on my spoon broken or disfigured; that experience was quite traumatizing… but I was a wimp. I digress. 57. See the baby elephant, Tuluba, at the zoo at Tiergarten Schönbrunn On Sunday Minkus, Mathis and I hit the zoo, since it […]
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