Berlin, Paris, London, Stockholm

What a month!

Here are the pictures from the month so far. Stay tuned for pics from Prague!



You can also see them all at once and comment on them by going to my Picasa gallery.

Androgynously Anime

I hated the old H&M ads featuring a very creepy Vincent Gallo ogling women.



But I love the new ones featuring German emo boy band Tokio Hotel.

Nose Holes and Chest Warts

Here's a quote from a funny post about the often painful literalism of the German language. It's from the entertaining but seemingly defunct "Nothing for Ungood" (a blog whose title is taken from the German version of the phrase 'no offense', i.e., Nichts für ungut):

"Maybe because of the change of weather or due to the stress of learning to live in a different culture you develop a cold sore. Instead of stopping by home to grab your German-English dictionary to look up the new term, just stop and think about what your condition is. Lip herpes. Lippenherpes. While you’re at the pharmacy you may want to pick up something for your sinuses. Don’t know the word for sinuses? That’s ok. They are kind of like caves near your nose. Nasennebenhöhlen. No problem."