Please don’t mistake anything I’m about to say here but quite frankly, I am exhausted. The filming went wonderfully but it took a lot out of me and then running around (off camera) being a minor celebrity and getting patted on the back about a million times (verbally and physically) wore me out. Luckily it’s Saturday so I can rest :) Again, I have no … Continue reading The Hard Knock Life
There’s an old maxim that if you want to remember something, write it down. The past 36 hours have been so amazing that I definitely want to get some of it written “down” even though in about an hour I’m going to head out and continue with the final phase of it. In short, a camera crew from a national television station has been following … Continue reading The Life and Times of Sam Cel Roman Volume I
Well if you’ve been reading this blog long enough, you know about the times I’ve tangled with Sorin Apostu, the Lord of Cluj, the mayor of the city in which I reside. This is “breaking” news, which means the full story hasn’t developed, but investigators from the DNA (national anti-corruption office) swarmed on City Hall this morning. Furthermore, they also sent a number of agents … Continue reading And So Fell Lord Perth…
Dangit, lately I’ve been slammed, crammed busy and so haven’t been a very good blogger and uploaded many photographs. In fact, my camera still has about a dozen good ones on it waiting to be transferred to my computer. The photo above was taken a month or two ago. If you live in Unicorn City, I’ll tell you it was shot on Str. Napoca right … Continue reading Poza Zilei: The Supervisor
You know, even when I talk to Romanians who have been to the United States, they often fail to grasp just what life is like there. Without turning this post into a jeremiad, I was reading through a new report (PDF) issued by the U.S. Census Bureau (Rom: recensament), talking about official levels of poverty. There were 49.1 million poor [people] using the SPM definition … Continue reading Poor in the USA
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