I’ve been moving apartment for the past few weeks, packing, repacking, jettisoning kit, repeat. Ikea furniture is quite terrible for non-drivers, its heavy, often one-time use, and in switzerland its difficult to get rid of.
Swiss apartments often have built in cabinetry and closets with shelves in the walls.  This makes purchasing bookshelves and clothing closets […]

My buddy from Sweden is back with another song:

Otherwise, I recently found this feature of gmail quite powerful:
http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/10/googles-mail-go.html

I met a Swedish songwriter last weekend and we shot the breeze and played some tunes and drank some beers, a great Saturday.
Here’s his first entry, just in time to garner resonance before the most important u.s.-election in a long time. More to come…..

Americans (and perhaps other English-speakers) have the saying,
“There are only two certainties in life: taxes and death.”
This is quite appropriate, but for most of us, paying rent or a mortgage, and thus employment are further chapters in this long saga of necessary evils.  Unfortunately, full-time gainful employment robs us of a quarter of our life, or half of […]

A botellon is an informal gathering of teenagers to drink in public. The concept comes from Spain, where the kids wanted to rebel against bar-prices by organizing massive drinkathons in parks. The largest botellon was held in Madrid with 10,000 participants.
These parties are organizable by word of mouth, and most recently, via social websites such […]

I’ve made my first tweet.  Aren’t we excited?
I’ve stopped smoking and am experiencing intense nicotine withdrawal: my stomach is wrecked, evening headaches, but, i’m sleeping VERY WELL. It is a terrible feeling being owned by tobacco companies.
Although, the way cigarettes worked for me, they helped me concentrate and gave me a reason to get away […]

I get to read the free daily paper “Blick am Abend” during my hour-long commute. Yesterday on the cover was a picture of some singer (whose identity I won’t reveal, because she doesn’t need this type of news). The singer, sitting passed out in front of a club. Why does that news […]

It’s been a while. I wanted to write more often. I’ve however been travelling, in order to evade this football madness which has gripped Europe.
It’s a shame, how the European Cup warps friendships into pathetic superficial reports of goals, red-cards, and injuries. But how can I personally care about twenty-two millionaires chasing […]

Had a great weekend in that worldly city of Berlin. Flew back, and checked out the weather greeting me on the tarmac. To the left, France and the rest of Europe. To the right, Switzerland!

Just when I began to think it no longer possible, my dear homeland government has
furnished me with another exciting piece of comedy. Will the follies ever cease? The fun ever end?
My post today included a letter from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the ones with the audacity to request financial information from Americans overseas, albeit […]