I Smoke, Therefore I Amsterdam

[docbrite]

Dear Joe Orton: Why have you haunted my life so persistently? I was born three or four months before you died, so it's not like I could be your reincarnation (or Kenneth's, as the case may be, but I'm feeling more Joe-ish again these days).

I am very tired, I am very merry, I went back and forth all night on the fairy ... you know, Edna St. Vincent

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[nicosian]

I never really mastered the art of the dutch stairs, it got trickier with a sprained ankle to boot in the house I stayed in haarlem, old school tiny winding staircase.

But I was relieved when my Oma, born and raised in the south netherlands looked at them and said "y'know, I have no idea how I never fell down them".

Treacherous things, they are. I call them the Dutch Stairs of Doom.

Gay Bashing in Amsterdam

[r100s]

I found this discussion of a surge in gay bashing in Amsterdam interesting:

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/07/amsterdam.html

Wonder if you'd heard anything about it...

[tekalynn]

Dutch stairs terrify the crap out of me. Not literally, fortunately, but they're the one thing I'll forget my elevator neurosis for.