I admit, that I am very proud of my first Christmas tree. Today my neighbors came over to check it out and we lit the candles and sang some German Christmas Carols and had a great Christmas Eve Eve. Felt almost like home. It is a big difference to have real candles on the Christmas tree, the light, the warmth, the scent the …

If you have a couple of minutes check out this little animation. The combination of nature, cartoon and puzzle is excellent. P.S. Don’t blame me, if all in a sudden half of your day is gone :-)

After the comments and email requests for the Stormy Picture I checked with my sister and it turns out she didn’t take it. She never claimed she had and it was just a wrong assumption on my side. The one to the left was taken during the same storm at the office where she is working, but not the breathtaking one. She …

This is a great picture she send me today. 

I have only a vague recollection of the content of my Adventblog. Love that kind of memory hole, it is super exciting to check out what little treasure is behind the silver box this morning. There are another 5 from last year. Can’t wait. One more reason to get my act together and create new stories next year again.

I have been asked a couple of times in the last weeks, what about the Adventblog this year. Sorry to disappoint. Please check out last year’s. I was able to create an entry every day for over a week, which took me sometimes until 2 in the morning. I was becoming a Zombie then and had to stop.   My hope was to get …

Stumbled over this nice exhibition of Soviet Anti-Alcohol Posters collection via Jason Kottke. Update: Yuri, the curator of the online museum, send me the translation to the text of the poster to the right, it sais: Alkohol — The Enemy of Industry.

I have some doubts that there will ever be another Peoples Bizarre concert, I feel very fortunate to have seen them play tears in the eyes of audiences including me.  It’s is just when six exceptional musicians come together and the project does not take off, it is tough to keep them together. Tomorrow morning Colin Stetson their reed player is flying …

I got a sausage today at Rosamunde’s sausage grill in the Lower Haight, highly recommended. I have not been in that corner of the city in a while, but Gonzales endorsement where there all over the place, which made me hopeful. Hopeful, until I talked to the doorman of the Hotel Utah later in the evening and he told me …

Wow, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle really delivered on the promise to be the best Orchestra in the World. First Aus einem Tagebuch from Goebbels with lots of percussions and I have never seen so much brass on stage at the Symphony, I love brass. Then Bart