No's apple pie

11:30 mareku 0 Comments

We had dinner at No & Go to try their brand new teppanyaki grill plate. As dessert No baked one of her famous apple pies... :-)

Bonal

09:19 mareku 0 Comments

Cute poster for sale at the kunst actionen Dusseldorf.

Please be so kind and sign my Kindle...

09:16 mareku 0 Comments

A recent reading in Manhattan at the Strand bookstore by David Sedaris, whose most recent book is “When You Are Engulfed in Flames,” may have offered a glimpse of the future. A man named Marty who had waited in the book-signing line presented his Kindle, on the back of which Mr. Sedaris, in mock horror, wrote, “This bespells doom.”

Gay parents

14:23 mareku 0 Comments


Jarko Witte van Leeuwen was featured on national television with his family as an example of gays adopting children from the USA. There was some (minor) discussion in parlement whether that is desirable - IT IS! ;-)

Anthony Woods - The new Obama?

Anthony Woods (gay, black Iraq vet with a Harvard degree, 28 years old) is running in a crowded Democratic field in California's 10th District, which includes parts of Sacramento and San Francisco's East Bay area. After he came out he was discharged (honorable). He is a guy will a great story and did all the right things to get (inter)national attention so far - let's wait a little bit a hear if he has to say something meaningfull as well... Go Anthony!

Ring Lip

06:19 mareku 1 Comments

How to shave your huh... groin - by Gillette

18:34 mareku 0 Comments


Or your back, chest, armpits or head

Mosquitoes Starwars

Because Northern Scandinavia is Mosquito heaven at the time of the year when we are traveling over there - I am looking for some protection. Next to the usual DEET solution I came across this nifty product from Intellectual Ventures: A laser gun for Mosquitoes: No kidding - it really exists! It can recognize mosquitoes and then takes them out in a range of 100 meters...

Prone Cobra Stretch

15:27 mareku 0 Comments



Because my right hand is still in a cast - my gym routine is quit different: I do more core exercises like the Cobra and Superman movements. You really have to get used to this - but is very rewarding and great for your lower back and abs...

Sundays' Best: Top Ten audiobooks

09:43 mareku 0 Comments

With my iPhone always on hand, audiobooks are getting more and more fun. Audiobookbuilder
is a great program to stitch all the CDs or MP3s together in a bookmarkable format. These are my current favorites:
  1. The Fellowship Of The Ring, J. R. R. Tolkien, read by Full Cast (BBC 1981)
  2. Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs, read by Augusten Burroughs
  3. Dreams of my Father - Barack Obama, Read by Barack Obama
  4. Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris, read by David Sedaris
  5. Dear fatty - Dawn French, read by Liza Tarbuck
  6. Babycakes, Armistead Maupin, read by Armistead Maupin
  7. The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander Mccall Smith, read by Adjoa Andoh
  8. Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull, Thomas Mann, read by Boris Aljinovic
  9. Sense And Sensibility, Jane Austen, Read By Juliet Stevenson
  10. Economist weekly audio edition, read by various