ritas kleine welt

a few weeks back, major kindly provided a picture of her cardboard cut-out torino. i finally managed to take my camera along to my broom cupboard work space. so, here's my first car: a paper torino.(and before you ask, yes!, i did 'cut out some time' from research and went on an extended coffee break to glue it together.)

in honour of today's storm, i composed an ode upon a brave pigeon digging its little claws into a trusty birch twig and swaying with the whole tree against the stiff breeze.

ode (in german), moving pigeon and music behind the cut.

shoes are a girl's best friend!

birgit and major. what have you done to me? this starsky and hutch fandom is lethal -- a complete wackjob. i tell ya!!! though, i have to admit, i was already into the show some 17 years ago when it was still aired on german telly. proud member of team starsky then. proud member of team starsky now! hey, i gotta stick to my beuteschema... (and, no!, that's not dubya on the right, but roland totheroh!!!)

browsing the web today, i found an insane trivia page listing all the strangest occurances on the show. like 'starsky touches hutch', 'hutch touches starsky', 'they touch each other' and 'other body contact'. not to speak of the categories 'body count', 'what time is it?' or 'booze', 'drugs' and 'literacy'. honestly! and i thought i had too much spare time in my spare time. see for yourselves.

edit: now complete with major's torino.

after six years of studying english literature, i still can't remember shakespeare's birthdate. but somehow, somewhere in the past 29 years, i have picked up that grover cleveland was the only ever non-consecutive POTUS -- which i suddenly remembered on watching the latest episode of QI as soon as stephen fry asked how many people had taken the presidential oath.

before i return to watching starsky & hutch, i just wanted to share the latest meme with you:

SUPPOSEDLY if you’ve seen over 70 films, you have no life. Mark the ones you’ve seen. There are 239 films on this list. Copy this list and paste this on your Journal. Then, put x’s next to the films you’ve seen, add them up, change the header adding your number, and click post at the bottom. Have fun.

1) paul is dead

2) elvis lives

3) god is a dj

alley proposed, so who am i to dispose? three guesses who it will be this time. santa? naw! the tooth fairy? nope. (but he's got teeth alright!) the tramp? you're halfway there.

it's been proven countless times already: life has a sarcastic streak to it. yesterday morning, was just another example. this time on the subject of language, though.

yesterday a rather heavy envelope lay on the shoeshelf by the door when i came home. i picked it up -- and nearly dropped it again. inside was the book by maurice bessy i had ordered from amazon a few days ago. it's not only a HUGE book, it's also freaking heavy. since i don't have a kitchen scale, i can only guess that it might weigh somewhere between 3 and 4kg. honestly! i swear!!! anywho... now it's mine, mine, MINE!!!

a new spin for the ever so popular game bullshit! bingo. liz henry has designed her own sets. you'll find 'anti-feminism', 'racist', 'creationist', 'white stupid guy' and all sorts of interesting bingo cards in her folder.

BINGO!

don't forget to print off the appropriate card before you head out to the next gathering of the ever so lovely extended family, or the pub down the corner or the next best NPD-rally.

so i decided to play a bit with a couple of pictures i took at the zoo last weekend and give them a bit of a vintage colouring. and then i got a bit carried away. thus, silliness ensued...

edit: now featuring tiger #2 and #3.

and all that matters is having seen jude law FOUR times. collective cheers to mary, ellie and alex -- partners in crime!!!

a new sport has hit leipzig. there has been no decision namewise yet, so you may either call it 'shoe throwing', 'extreme decorating' or 'i've seen this in a film once, let's try this out ourselves because tim burton is so cool'.

so here it is: the first photographic documentation of this kind of trend or god knows what this is supposed to mean.

edit: thanks to a helpful comment on the woophy site where i cross posted the immages, we now know how to call this phenomenon. 'shoefiti' or 'shoe tossing'. wikipedia has more on the subject.

andrea, maria and i are on a brave journey and we are passing through darkness and into the light. in other words, we are reading the order of things by michel foucault. the book holds loads of puzzles and has lead to many moments of wonderment in the past month. but we are not faint of heart, but drudge ahead with full speed.