Amy Winehouse -You Know I'm No Good

mmm... sublime. a nice jewish girl from london.

if the video freezes or is choppy, try pausing it for a few moments.

is it HaVaii or HaWaii?

a man asks a stranger, "is it pronounced HaVaii or HaWaii?"
the stranger responds, "HaVaii."
"thank you."
"you're Velcome."


my job is sending me to hawaii this summer! dig it. volcanoes! woo-hoo! maybe i'll get to see them filming lost! hmmm, martha's picture with john locke...

germanization

in honor of earth day, i bought my very own gnome. the earth day connection is is outfit. now that's biodegradable. understand that around here, gnomes are not so kitsch. they're disturbingly common.

that's a snail in his hand. c'mon, you know he's cute.

HAPPY wipe my ass EARTH DAY!

singer cheryl crow has announced her plan to save to planet: one square of toilet paper per trip to the loo. i'm sorry, cheryl, i don't have a square to spare.

perhaps if we spent less time talking about how to wipe our asses and hybrid cars that real people can't afford, and spent more time learning about who we can vote for, we wouldn't be so hopelessly behind in LEGISLATION.

pictures of moscow

on most of these you can click and see it larger. saint basil's cathedral. brought to you by dr. suess. ("God is good, God is great, hurry and pray, or we'll be late!")

st. basil's

kremlin

looking through the kremlin gate at the top of the history museum

another cool church in red square. on saturday before eastern orthodox easter, women brought food for easter sunday into the church to have it blessed. he sprinkled holy water (a.k.a. god saliva) on them and their food. i got sprinkled as well. it didn't burn!

kremlin from the bridge over moscow river

the beautiful klair.

mockba, day 1

i arrived in moscow at 2 am this morning. igor was there with my name on a sign. i felt all special. he spoke no english, so we had a very quiet drive to where i was to sleep last night, which was a complete mystery to me. turns out it was the apartment of a woman named irene. she spoke a little engish; very little. she made tea, we chatted. in the morning she made me eggs and we chatted some more. we talked about our cultures and the inevitable question: "do you like bush?" NO! it's important to let the world hear first hand about all the bush haters! i told her bush only cares about rich people. she said putin is the same. she said russians are unhappy because of unemployment. but i'm under the impression that russians have always been unhappy? she said she doesn't watch the news because it gives her agita (my word). she really enjoys reading, and she has been reading some very interesting new information lately. if i understood her correctly, the devil came to earth millions of years ago in spaceships in order to kill all the white people. WTF? SHE DID NOT JUST SAY THAT!!!! oh, i clarified and pantomimed and her story did not change. she was very happy to see my open minded interest and was thrilled to give me a photo copied article. there are pictures of the galaxy and pictures of spaceships. my mission is now to have this translated to me by someone who is hopefully not psychotic.

AWESOME GERMAN PORN!

ok, not exactly, but explicit nonetheless. make sure the kids are not in the room if you're not ready for "that" discussion yet. but if you are, this is the perfect tool!

http://www.planetdan.net/pics/babies/index.htm

Do svidaniya!

it's been awhile since i've posted anything. i was thinking about why a few days ago and realized that i'm getting very used to living here, there doesn't seem like anything interesting to talk about. it's all becoming so normal.

but here's something cool: I'M LEAVING FOR RUSSIA TOMORROW! i'm spending my spring break week in moscow. there may be a side trip to st. petersburg, which would be awfully fitting. plans have changed a great deal. i was hoping to be there with doug, but his kidneys seem to have another plan for him. this threw me because i didn't do ANY planning. i can't say hello, goodbye, or "fill me up with caffeine." i couldn't even get a travel book because there aren't any on post and one in german won't do me much good. so i'm going to have to trust Uncle Pasha (http://www.unclepasha.com/ the site's hilarious!).

oh yeah, another thing i found interesting- i needed my visa quickly so i had to drive to the russian consulate in munich a few weeks ago. as i'm driving in munich (thank GOD for tinkerbell, my gps navigator) i imagined a phone call from a woman with a thick russian accent, let's call her natasha, instructing "meet me at the russian consulate in munich at noon-- and come alone."