19 Oct 2016 Through a "River of Ink" "River of Ink", the debut novel of Brit Paul M.M. Cooper, is a marvel. I'd not heard of the man until he did his Reddit AMA a few months...
06 May 2007 von Korncrake And here’s something for you, when all you want to do is kill time while reading elaborate satire. Korncrake – The Website of Herr Professor Dokto Boethius P. von Korncrake...
05 Mar 2007 Uncle So here I am, joining the ranks of millions and millions of bloggers posting cute baby photos. Only that this time it might well be the best picture ever posted....
09 Jan 2007 Tuition or bust As a follow up to yesterday’s post, and answering the comment by “eigenschaft”, I will now write a bit about the watered down compromise I mentioned yesterday: the one...
08 Jan 2007 An unholy marriage People would think that people learn from mistakes. People are mistaken. About an hour ago, the Socialist Party’s head Gusenbauer announced the finalization of coalition talks with the People’...
11 Oct 2006 BREAKING NEWS - sort of Well, here’s to me, and all the other people whose final votes brought the Greens to third place. Read all about it here (if you know German…if you...
06 Oct 2006 BREAKING NEWS - Limbo reviewed Rejoice, Christians, for the concept of the infant limbo is expected to be renounced by the Vatican, according to a reputable source from the small Island. In case you’re...
02 Oct 2006 In which I return to my newfound love of coming up with descriptive titles, totally breaking the layout of my site, and write about the outcome of yes So, here we are. The hegemony of the People’s Party is finally over. Yesterday more people voted for the social democrats than for Chancellor Schüssel and his unrelenting neo-liberal...
01 Oct 2006 Time to vote It’s time to vote again, and the girlfriend and I will be on our way shortly. We held an election party four years ago, with red and green pasta,...
23 Jun 2006 Dubya (final) So Dubya’s gone, and I won’t even pretend I was any good at covering it. The relevant things about the visit have been said by others who are...
19 Jun 2006 Carinthia, medieval I’m back from the excursion, and I brought a shitload of pictures. Click here to see the batch on my site’s own gallery, or click here to admire...
18 Mar 2006 Wibald's curse I’ve been trying for the last half hour to print out the article on Wibald of Stablo/Corvey from the online version of the International Encyclopaedia for the Middle...
30 Dec 2005 Porno Viennese Well, Austria’s made international headlines again. In the course of a government sponsored art project which lasted all year, posters were put up all over Vienna depicting the lower...
19 Nov 2005 Irving arrested David Irving, self-proclaimed historian and Holocaust denier was arrested on the 11th of September November (of course) here in Austria. Read all about it here. Well, it’s great they...
