The Alte Nordfriedhof in the Schwabing neighborhood is a tiny, disused cemetery which opened in 1868. The last burial took place in 1939. After it was destroyed in WWII what was left has been carefully restored since and is now a public park. People go there to take a walk, do sports or sit on [...]

I will be going to Washington in a few weeks for a class on the interaction of history, politics, geography and architecture and, needless to say, I’m already awfully stoked. It has not been finally decided which places we will visit, but we will probably see the Capitol, the National Building Museum, the National Archives, [...]

Note: Tomorrow is the official “Talk Like A Pirate Day”.  For reference see also this site.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. – H. L. Mencken Same goes for this blog.