literary rhapsodies, emotional outbursts, bad puns and creative output from a slightly distracted and highly disturbed mind with a big heart and an occasionally dark sense of humour
Some quick reviews of books I recently read. Consider this a book club where only I get to speak. Ali Hazelwood: The Love Hypothesis. “Carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man!” Okay, so I read this because we have this thing at work where we read books that are related to our…
By a five-year-old who loved whales and loves space and was sad the former would never encounter the latter. I was very proud of what I had come up with and when I showed it to said five-year-old, excited about his reaction, I got a very stern “Das hab ich mir aber anders vorgestellt. /…
What to pack, what to bring, what not to bring. Every blog out there will rightfully tell you to pack as lightly as possible, and I whole-heartedly agree. However, back when a certain pandemic hit, I had just spent loads of money for long-distance hiking gear to be perfectly equipped for the John-Muir-Trail (s. here)…
The Fishermen’s Trail is considered one of the most beautiful coastal trails in the world. So I figured, I’ll take it to the test. So in less than 24 hours, I am on my way to Portugal, ready to cover the famous coastal hike – officially 226.5 km, divided into 13 segment, I made some…
From Wikipedia: Folie à deux (French for ‘madness of two’), also called shared psychosis or shared delusional disorder (SDD), is a psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief are “transmitted” from one individual to another. Folie à deux is also the subtitle of one of the most anticipated movies in 2024: The Joker…
A remake. For the original and the story behind it, click here!
Vermutlich seid ihr seit meinem letzten Tropea-Post schon kurz vor dem Verhungern. Darum also ganz schnell reichhaltiger Lesestoff, damit ihr mehr als nur ein Ristorante zur Auswahl habt, wenn ihr klug seid und den deutschen Herbststürmen entflieht und geschwind bei Katrin Urlaub bucht! Hier kommt eine Compilation einiger nennenswerter Locations im wunderschönen Tropea. Und über…
The Whoniverse is full of nonsense and quirky stuff, but also full of very moving moments and great quotes. I experimented with black ink and crayons and since this quote is from an episode featuring Van Gogh, I wanted to do something reminiscent of the great painter. If S05E10, Vincent and the Doctor, doesn’t make…
…were starring in the New Years Concert on Jan 01st 2020. And realized they didn’t have a proper bio for the program notes. Since most of them are professional orchestra musicians, they are very verpeilt, sort of tsk tsk tsk in a loving, adoring but also Hände-über-dem-Kopf-zusammengeschlagene way. So since we were already past the…
I have played in various orchestras, mostly in Freiburg, and helped out in even more. For two semesters, I played in a chamber orchestra, das Junge Kammerorchester Freiburg and because usually I am all in, I wrote the program notes for those two concerts, in 2012 and 2013. Enjoy!