Vergiss Mich

I miss Germany. A lot. It’s tough to describe. You wouldn’t think you could fall in love with a place the way you could fall in love with a person, but I have honest to god tenth grade heartache for Germany, and particularly Berlin. I’m in London now, and it’s all right… but it’s no [...]

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Deutschland Verlassen

Today I have to leave Germany. I feel like there are a lot of exciting things I could be doing with my last day – checking out the (many) museums I still haven’t been to, visiting the Zoo, chilling in the (often nude) public parks – instead, I’ve decided to get drunk shortly after noon [...]

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Le Grandeur Francais

Fuck french people. I’m a little tipsy right now, after two heinekens. You know why that is? Because I haven’t had a damn thing to eat. A loaf of bread (a baguette, mind you, which is a notoriously small amount of bread) cost me 4 euros and 20 cents! A half-liter beer costs 7 EUROS! [...]

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Reasons Why Germany Rocks

1.) German people are pretty cool, and I speak some of their language. This means that from time to time, I can converse with them without feeling self-conscious or like an angry American.
2.) Their country is not absurdly expensive. No, I will not pay 4 euros for a coke. That is a six dollar soda, [...]

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Drug Tourism

Currently writing from a “coffee shop” in Amsterdam – this is a bit of a misnomer, as the coffee sold here is, while brown and slightly caffeinated, not particularly coffeeish. However, no one is particularly concerned, because what these places actually specialize in is a boutique distribution of marijuana.
It’s an interesting situation, because as far [...]

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Serious Business

I have been told again by girls, for the (large number)th time, that I am incapable of being serious. I think that the comment coming consistently from women is in some ways significant and in some ways not so much – there are a couple different manifestations of this, and a couple of what I [...]

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Cultural Relativism

So it turns out people aren’t the same, the world over.
In Europe, smoking is sexy.

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Destination Unknown; Tom Wolfe, where are you now?

So, Dawson has been on my case for quite some time to read some Tom Wolfe stuff, and I suspect that like always (at least as far as literature selections are concerned), he will turn out to be right. It’s not that I doubted him, it’s just that I didn’t think that I had the [...]

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Gut Gedacht

I’ve been killing time in class by writing up philosophical discourses – they’re mostly pretty terrible and pretty lame, but that’s what happens when you’re trying to avoid actually paying attention. Anyway, one on a debate I read between Chomsky and Foucault (simply brilliant) and another in response to a dialogue we heard in [...]

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