The Snail Shell

This cracks me up for a couple of reasons: 1. It's not even anywhere near Christmas 2. Santa Claus is "de kerstman" (because C...

Alarmist ? Yeah. But partially/mostly true? Also, yeah. More and more, it scares me to think that (eventually) there will be another big...

Back from London, which is huge. I was visiting Erik, a friend from high school (and middle school, and grade school...) who's going to...

A real champ , and also, I like this magazine. But somehow, it seems like the same old story. I feel like I know everything I'd need to...

The following is a list of people in Scotch'n'Soda that I don't know at all. Like, I wouldn't recognize them if they hit me...

Okay, my mp3 player (Samsung YP-U2J, don't ever buy it) has refused to connect to my computer, rendering it pretty useless (unless you w...

Hey! Just back from a grand trip with my family. More on that later. Right now, an unrelated thought: Brussels Airport just went on strik...

You know, they call rap and hip-hop "black music" here? Just throwing that out there. Yeah, so two things happened over the last ...

Panic at the Disco isn't emo, guys, really! That's like a black guy in the pre-civil-war South saying "hey guys, I'm not bl...

There is good Dutch food! It just all happens to be mush or dough. And mush is tasty, but you can only take so much; dough is tasty, but i...

I guess I'm not going to see this band after all. Bummer!

I think I've been seeing people's flaws too much. Maybe I should open up more. I tend to get this way when the ol' social orde...

And I think everyone else has probably seen it already: RIYL: Yacht Rock Also, in my book, Justin Timberlake has completed his transition fr...

"Sneeuwwitje stikte in de appel." - "Snow White choked on the apple." Apparently, in the Dutch version, when the evil wi...

I appreciate the effort. You were kind of fun, at least in principle. Plus, all the korfballers (and the coach/trainer guy) were really he...

I'm going to see this band in Cologne on April 1. I'm excited!

My initial plan for this weekend was to use up a couple of Railpass days making a voyage through France. Hit up a town that everyone's ...

When a project is working, and I'm making progress, I'm on fire. I get totally wired. Almost jittery. I could do it for hours and...

If we're comparing European cities that I've seen to American cities I may or may not have seen, and I'm not saying we are, but ...