...which is very sad indeed, I find myself nonetheless sidetracked into a ramble by obits like this:


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CJRT has resigned as director of the Tolkien Estate. (As early as August actually. Multiple sources confirm so I guess this is not just a hoax?) It shouldn't be that surprising - he's 93 and hinted as early as April that Beren and Lúthien would probably be the last of his father's works that he'd edit and published - and yet... it is ( Read more... )

Sooo all the western federal states in my country have been given an extra holiday today in celebration of the 500 year anniversary of some crazy friar publishing his 95 theses on Why Indulgences Suck And Actually Don’t Work, kicking off the landslide that eventually ended in the institution of Protestantism. Today he'd be using Twitter but back ( Read more... )

Well, Jörg and I we were both right, I guess ( Read more... )

And if memory serves, that was the most crowded polling station I've ever been to ( Read more... )

Article in the newspaper today: Hoverboards not to be used on public streetsSo there we are. We need general regulations concerning the use of hoverboards, and Biff Tannen is president of the United States of America. We're officially living in the 2017 based on the "bad" 1985, aren't we ( Read more... )

I read the local newspaper, as I may have mentioned before, out of a sense of duty rather than out of real interest. The sense of duty stems from a) having done two internships with them back in the day, and b) feeling obliged to at least skim what's up in the world and in our backwater place. I wouldn't do that online, where I'm a cherry picker ( Read more... )

For a couple of years now, my parents have been taking a holiday trip to Berlin in December - my mother loves the Christmas markets, my dad the general bustle of the capital. So this has become a bit of a family tradition ( Read more... )

with nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah---

Man, that sounds kinda prophetic right now.
RIP Leonard Cohen. I know, just one among many, but that line is just too appropriate not to make note of it.

Man, next thing I'll blog about is something positive, I promise. Time to stop moping, srsly.

So the news have sunk in, and we're apparently not going to get a Groundhog Day style miracle, and the world will have to keep on turning ( Read more... )