You’ll often hear me complain about my Facebook feed but this time I have nothing but thanks for the people who brought my attention to two very interesting experiments. The first one occurred in Washington, D.C. and the second one in Bucharest. I highly recommend you read both of those articles fully (first one is in English, second in Romanian) but the summary is that … Continue reading Understanding Stradivarius
Folks, an apology is due. I had a wonderful talk with someone today and with their help I realized lately I’ve been dwelling far too much on the negative side of things. It’s clear just from reading my last few posts that this is so and yet I didn’t truly realize it until now. Although I took last night’s appearance as a disaster, I spoke … Continue reading Apologies
Well I’m a big enough man to admit it. Tonight I got punk’d. Tonight I got played by a real professional and “taken to school”. There’s no video at the moment (I’m sure it will be online soon enough) but tonight I got invited onto a local television talk show. Actually let me rewind and start at the beginning. Last year a group of local … Continue reading Punk’d
After writing all the depressing things that I have about the media lately, it’s time to mention something quite good. In the case of the Romanian media, that which is missing is fear. My little experiment is over but not one television news channel, not one newspaper, not one blog, not one major source of information and awareness here in Romania ever over indulges in … Continue reading No Fear
After a ludicrously long day of work, I passed through Piata Unirii here in downtown Unicorn City tonight and chanced upon an anti-Basescu march of about 50 middle aged men. I had to stop as they passed by me and a young woman standing next to me (wearing some kind of comical rabbit hat) whipped out her phone and began recording it “for YouTube!” as … Continue reading Here We Are Now, Entertain Us!
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