Wow it has finally launched! YES! Folks, if you’ve been following this blog for a long time, you know about “Project Iceberg”, my little code word for a something I’ve been planning and working on since August 2012 when I wrote my post The Revolution Begins Today. Essentially I looked around here and wondered what I could do to make this city and country a … Continue reading My very first Kickstarter project
Well my apologies for not posting anything in the last few days. The problem is that my internet has been completely screwed up and I’ve been lucky to get 30 minutes a day of online time. If you remember my post from way back called Plumbing Fun on a Saturday Night then you can get an idea of what my internet situation has been like. … Continue reading Je plie et ne romps pas
This morning as the Unsleeping Eye was busy telling me what’s going on in this quirky country I call home, I nearly fell out of my chair I was laughing so hard. I think I’ve said it a million times before that in life you often have to choose between laughing and crying, and this time I (once again) chose to laugh. At issue is … Continue reading Difficult to swallow
You know, I’ve been writing about tropes in Romania for a while in an effort to understand the mentality of the people in this country. Yesterday, a few unrelated events suddenly “clicked” something in my head and I had a blinding flash of insight. The first thing that happened was that I was watching the Romanian news channels, literally all of which were focused on … Continue reading Codependency
The sun came out yesterday and I spent a goodly amount of time enjoying the fresh air in downtown Unicorn City, taking in the sights and chatting with a few people. Right now Cluj is in the middle of its TIFF film festival and it seems like both visitors and locals alike are having a good time. But as I sat there on the bench, … Continue reading Szabadság
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