Category: Misc

  • Berlin street art

    All the photos of street art above come from Mitte, the central borough of Berlin. It’s the “capital” of Berlin, if you will. Around the […]

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  • Sachsenhausen concentration camp

    While in Berlin, I took a tour of the Schsenhausen concentration camp through Insider Tours, a tour company that offers fantastic (and cheap) walking tours […]

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  • Einstein’s desk drawings

    Okay, I doubt Einstein really drew this. But the desks at his old university are very old, and many of them had fun drawings like […]

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  • Bad Fucking

    Spotted this on display yesterday at a bookstore in the Tegel airport in Berlin. I tried really hard not to laugh (but wasn’t very successful.)

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  • Who Killed Bambi?

    “Who Killed Bambi?” is unfortunately not a mystery novel, it’s an unusually named women’s clothing store in Mitte, Berlin.

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  • Dolores California Gourmet Burritos in Berlin

    On a small side street near the touristy hellhole of Alexanderplatz is a San Francisco themed burrito place. If you’re a burrito lover in or […]

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  • Breadache: The Tartine bread experiment

    Last Christmas I got a copy of Tartine’s bread cookbook. Oh wait, did I say cookbook? It’s more of a narrative bread manifesto. (Breadfesto?) The […]

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  • What does this mean, Clipper?

    Sometimes a phrase makes sense all on its own. Other times, it needs a bit of context. I spotted the cryptic statement “Always have $1.25 […]

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  • Soviet Life

    A while back, one of my co-workers brought in a 1985 edition of Soviet Life magazine. If you’re not familiar with it, Soviet Life was […]

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  • Bowling car

    On my way to Four Barrel, I came across this rather, um, unusual bowling-themed art car. It was a little Fiat with bowling pins that […]

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