Month: August 2011

  • Puerto Confuso

    This ad for Puerto Alegre in the SF Weekly has me very, very confused. Here’s why:

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  • Ironic iron

    What’s this? An element sticker? The cool kids are all into chemistry now, I guess. Bill Nye would be proud. But the “irony” of this […]

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  • Berlin street art

    All the photos of street art above come from Mitte, the central borough of Berlin. It’s the “capital” of Berlin, if you will. Around the […]

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  • Sachsenhausen concentration camp

    While in Berlin, I took a tour of the Schsenhausen concentration camp through Insider Tours, a tour company that offers fantastic (and cheap) walking tours […]

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  • Einstein’s desk drawings

    Okay, I doubt Einstein really drew this. But the desks at his old university are very old, and many of them had fun drawings like […]

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  • Bad Fucking

    Spotted this on display yesterday at a bookstore in the Tegel airport in Berlin. I tried really hard not to laugh (but wasn’t very successful.)

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  • Who Killed Bambi?

    “Who Killed Bambi?” is unfortunately not a mystery novel, it’s an unusually named women’s clothing store in Mitte, Berlin.

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  • Dolores California Gourmet Burritos in Berlin

    On a small side street near the touristy hellhole of Alexanderplatz is a San Francisco themed burrito place. If you’re a burrito lover in or […]

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  • What happened to Zeitgeist?!

    Oh man, first that whole debacle with Anthony Bourdain, now a new storefront with a big pink heart? Oh well, as long as the beer […]

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