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The Sweet Smell of Good Service 18 Aug 2013 | 01:52 am
I'm going to preface his by stating I am not a shopper. Shopping tires me out. Even walking past shop windows seems to suck energy from me as though shops were made of some sort of Kriptonite (Koopton...
What’s good for the goose 17 Aug 2013 | 05:35 am
Bentley Waterfowl and Motor Museum has become my current favourite unlikely museum combination. It exists, I passed a sign for it on a recent trip to the UK and did an intergoogle on it. Waterfowl an...
Forbidden Planet (1956) 12 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
I've just finished rewatching Forbidden Planet, a big-budget sci-fi adventure movie from 1956. It’s a bit of a departure for me because my favourite genre is in fact low-budget sci-fi adventure movies...
Improve Your Dutch Through Murder 9 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
Given the amount of time the good lady wife and myself have lived here, our Dutch is really not so great. It's pretty good, but had we lived in France or Germany, or some other place where people are ...
Travel 28/5/13-2/6/13: Tampere, Finland part 1 12 Jul 2013 | 03:21 am
This was my first trip to Finland. Some 20 years ago, I flew Finnair to go to China, and did stop over in Helsinki airport for an hour, but airplanes and airports are not the soil of that country so d...
Free At Last 30 Jun 2013 | 08:37 pm
July the 1st is Keti Koti. Maybe you knew this, but I didn’t until last year. Keti Koti is the Surinamese day of emancipation. In Amsterdam it is celebrated with a festival in the park near me. I pres...
Travel: 18/6/11 (part 1) Texas: Family Tour – Segregation and Assassination 29 Jun 2013 | 08:13 pm
Hotel breakfast buffets look the same wherever you are in the world. If you were beamed into the middle of one you could tell instantly that you were in a hotel restaurant at breakfast time. Where you...
Daniel Kitson - Secret Comedian 27 Jun 2013 | 12:46 pm
On Monday night Daniel Kitson performed his latest show to an audience of mostly awed admirers. It certainly included a significant proportion of the Amsterdam stand-up community. Daniel Kitson is on...
More about Standing Up 9 Jun 2013 | 09:14 pm
So as not to start yet another blog (I have a dozen I write or write for), I'm going to be using this one to share things about stand-up, given that this is a thing that once again has entered my life...
Friends who know friends who know friends 26 Apr 2013 | 08:30 pm
I recently reached 500 friends on facebook. Which is quite amazing because in real life I only really know 12 people. This is why social media is, ironically, great for the social mediocre. Facebook r...
