Hey look, me and my Democracy Buddies got together and made our first political ad! LOL This guy’s ads are literally everywhere here in Cluj and so we couldn’t resist poking a little fun. Enjoy :) Continue reading Livia Alexa LUPTA PENTRU CLUJENI
Wow! It was a busy week here in Lake Wobegon, er, I mean Cluj-Napoca, known far and wide to its inhabitants as Unicorn City. There was a little old election in those United States of America and because everyone and their brother knows I’m an American who speaks Romanian, I spent a good deal of time talking to the media. Sad to say that I … Continue reading Media Extrabbleganza
I’d almost forgotten but tomorrow is the big presidential election in the United States of America, where millions of people will head out to the polls to vote for a man or woman they’ve never heard of, who theoretically will accurately and fairly tabulate these votes and then weeks later meet secretly with other anonymous men and women, who will then cast their vote for … Continue reading Our Long National Nightmare Is Over
If you live here in Unicorn City or have even visited in the past couple of years you probably recognize the lady in the above picture. She’s an elderly woman who stakes out a spot somewhere near Piata Unirii (the main square) and sells flowers to passersby. I saw that she was in the (local) news yet again and I’m writing about her today because … Continue reading Six Ways to Sunday
Well two days ago every newspaper in the world (almost) published a small blurb about how the Romanian Constitutional Court (CCR) invalidated the July 29 referendum and therefore Basescu would be shortly returned to office to finish out the rest of his term (until 2014). Of course this is Romania so nothing is that simple. At issue right now is the case of Mona Pivniceru, … Continue reading The Shortest Straw
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