The nun with the baking tray covered in aluminium foil came over to the stop where we waiting to catch the bus from Catania to Taormina in Sicily. A teenage girl instantly stood up and offered the nun a seat, which was gratefully accepted. In return, the nun offered the girl the tray, […]
Berlin Game
In 1987, Berlin had four sectors and was divided by The Wall into two countries. Each sector of Berlin had its own airport. Schoenefeld airport was in East Berlin’s Russian sector in East Germany. The other three, Gatow, Tempelhof, and Tegel were in the French, American, and British sectors respectively of West Berlin, an island […]
Taoist Beatles Propaganda
I have been following the Paul McCartney-Heather Mills breakup quite closely. (I recognize this is morally wrong, however.) Yesterday, Sir Paul locked her out of their London townhouse. When Heather’s bodyguard climbed to the second floor to enter the window, McCartney had him arrested. I was surprised to learn that Paul is now worth $1.5 […]
Dr Kramer
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">About a week after one of those what-are-you-doing-after-all-these-years email drops into the basket, I find myself struggling for an answer. Would that I had a neat one-liner of a career! Engineer! Marketing manager! Drug-addled whore! Cop! Dropout and copout! None-of-the-above is ticked with a tut-tut and I tinkle at keyboard […]