I just received from my friends at TLAVideo the DVD of The line of beauty. This is the movie adapted from one of my favorite novels of Alan Hollinghurst. He actually won the Booker prize with this one. Hopefully we will have time this Sunday to watch it.
In De Volkskrant Magazine of this week, the 13 year old Danny Hoeksema from the Northern town of Bovenkarspel say that his upbringing is ok. His parents knew from the start that Danny was gay and encouraged him to come out when the time was there. In the typical "Just act normal" and direct way of Dutch people from the north of Holland, Danny's story is really endearing.
National History Museum at the University of Oslo has just opened a first-ever museum exhibition dedicated to gay animals. “Against Nature?” does not tell zoologists anything new. Homosexuality has been recorded in some 1,500 species so far, and been well documented in about a third of these cases; it has been known since the time of Aristotle, who thought he witnessed two male hyenas having sex with one another. Scientists have often turned a blind eye on animal homosexuality. In one study are where over 95 % of all sexual activity was between males, the researcher noted it as “sparring”, a form of ritual combat... :-)
Because i was not happy at all with the results of Stemwijzer in giving me an advise for the general elections in November, I tried a new website, kieskompas which promises a better result. I a have to say that I am more happy with this wesbite and the result indeed.
I now have to vote for the CDA (which I will certainly NOT do of course , but VVD is on number 2. Best however is that they also give you an advise on the best coalition with would suit your believes and opinions and in my case that would be VVD/PvdA, which is spot on.
Thijs sent me this link of a website that offers old (used and new) Nike shoes. Some cost more then $8500...
I had to think immediately of my first pair of Nikes back in the 1970´s. The Nike court shoes.
I had them just as the picture above, only then with a red swoosh. The teared in the back and the tongue and real foam in them. Since then I am hooked to sneakers. :-)
With stemwijzer (vote adviser) I did a little test to find out which party has the same opinion about important issues as I do. Oops! I got the advise to vote for very right wing parties....
Guess I will vote VVD (liberals) anyway...
Interesting to see at stemwijzer that 90% of the dutch population is in favor of euthanasia, 50% is for legalizing soft drugs, a majority wants statutory rights for animals and wants to abolish double nationalities.
Lot of news about allofmp3 lately. Nobody mentioned that the place is now called www.alltunes.com and with this pro gramme you can download the whole allofmps catalogue. And you can still pay with VISA or Mastercard.
As part of our one-day mega visit to all the parks of Disney World we had a special back stage tour in the Epcot Aquarium. This is one of the biggest in the world, with a bout 3500 animals including sharks and stingrays. You are allowed to actually swim and dive in it. So we did!
So just the two of us were waving to surprised people watching through the glass windows seeing us swimming between the green turtles (huge animals), the groupers and the sharks of course. It was real fun to do so.
Marque checking his email on the blackberry...
Here are we staying right now: the Don Cesar Resort. It is a huge pink castle of St. Pete Beach. (That is short for St. Petersburg - when I asked the receptionist whether the beach used to be called Stali Beach, so looked completely blank... She never heard of an other St. Petersburg or even a Stalingrad... )
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art was established in 1927 as the legacy of John Ringling the famous Circus owner. The Museum of Art offers 21 galleries of European paintings many of Rubens, but a lot Dutch, French and Italian painters as well. The estate features the spectacular Cà d'Zan ("House of John"), a waterfront mansion. There is also a Circus Museum displays costumes, wagons, performance equipment, and other artifacts chronicling the history of the Circus. The beautifully landscaped grounds are overlooking Sarasota Bay.
It is amazing what John collected and it is by far the most beautiful museum I ever saw in Southern USA.
Edison laboratory in Floria was based in his Fort Meyers mansion. He stayed their during the winter months. His neighbor was henry Ford, who used to work for the Edison Company (now General Electric) The houses and lab are open to the public, so we had to take a look. Thomas Alva Edison is one of my heroes, so many patents, so many inventions. We were at his lab exactly 75 after he died on October 18th, 1931.
In De Volkskrant Magazine of this week, the 13 year old Danny Hoeksema from the Northern town of Bovenkarspel say that his upbringing is ok. His parents knew from the start that Danny was gay and encouraged him to come out when the time was there. In the typical "Just act normal" and direct way of Dutch people from the north of Holland, Danny's story is really endearing.
National History Museum at the University of Oslo has just opened a first-ever museum exhibition dedicated to gay animals. “Against Nature?” does not tell zoologists anything new. Homosexuality has been recorded in some 1,500 species so far, and been well documented in about a third of these cases; it has been known since the time of Aristotle, who thought he witnessed two male hyenas having sex with one another. Scientists have often turned a blind eye on animal homosexuality. In one study are where over 95 % of all sexual activity was between males, the researcher noted it as “sparring”, a form of ritual combat... :-)
Because i was not happy at all with the results of Stemwijzer in giving me an advise for the general elections in November, I tried a new website, kieskompas which promises a better result. I a have to say that I am more happy with this wesbite and the result indeed.
Thijs sent me this link of a website that offers old (used and new) Nike shoes. Some cost more then $8500...
With stemwijzer (vote adviser) I did a little test to find out which party has the same opinion about important issues as I do. Oops! I got the advise to vote for very right wing parties....
As part of our one-day mega visit to all the parks of Disney World we had a special back stage tour in the Epcot Aquarium. This is one of the biggest in the world, with a bout 3500 animals including sharks and stingrays. You are allowed to actually swim and dive in it. So we did!
Here are we staying right now: the Don Cesar Resort. It is a huge pink castle of St. Pete Beach. (That is short for St. Petersburg - when I asked the receptionist whether the beach used to be called Stali Beach, so looked completely blank... She never heard of an other St. Petersburg or even a Stalingrad... )
Edison laboratory in Floria was based in his Fort Meyers mansion. He stayed their during the winter months. His neighbor was henry Ford, who used to work for the Edison Company (now General Electric) The houses and lab are open to the public, so we had to take a look. Thomas Alva Edison is one of my heroes, so many patents, so many inventions. We were at his lab exactly 75 after he died on October 18th, 1931.
