tea strainer

difficult to recognize it until you are quite close... but it's a giant golden tea strainer hanging over a teashop. now that's what i call luxury.

yay!

successfully walked away from the ILFOs. started out early enough, and only came home when it was too dark for them to fly.

by the way, think twice before you run down a steep slope that consists of fairly large and edgy stones, especially if you are barefoot and all your companions wear shoes.

or again, don't think at all. it's huge fun!

troubled by ILFOs

on thursday, 26th october, we will be celebrating Austria's National Holiday. we are sooooooooo proud of being Austrians, aren't we. anyway, it's a holiday.

as usual, our military is going to show off its tanks and other stuff on the famous Heldenplatz in the heart of Vienna. we have such a good military, haven't we, and we certainly need it - like we need a third leg.

normally it's fun living near the center of Vienna. BUT when those guys in ugly fancy dress are preparing for their show, they take helicopters and things to Heldenplatz right over my head! they've got helicopters named Black Hawks - much too noble a name, Nazgûl would be more appropriate, but still too noble. i call them ILFOs.

Inhumanly Loud Flying Objects. some flew over my head even this morning. i know the game: it will be worse tomorrow, and still a lot worse on thursday - because then there will be planes too. UGH!

a classic revisited...

ladies and gentlemen, i give you: Pat the hippopotamus and Stanley the spotty dog, and - The Lion Sleeps Tonight! (full length version)

(if you go to the youtube site, you can get them in full screen format, too) :-)

shelves

one in a chinese bric-a-brac-shop...

...and one, believe it or not, in a common supermarket. and that's the more colourful one.

windows to the east

shopping chinese

oh yeah, Vienna has its own quiet little Chinatown... isn't it weird how nicely that chinese kitsch blends in with 19th century Viennese architecture?

Quote of another day

Es ist nicht genug, daß, wenn ein Kopf an die Wand gelehnt wird, diese stehenbleibt; es muß auch tönen.

("It is not enough, when a head is leaned against a wall, that the wall remain standing; there must be a sound too.")


A ghost I met last night*






*yes, i admit i may have been dreaming.

Quote of the day

"Whenever the world seems complicated, I take a nap in a tree and wait for dinner."

Hobbes


(Hobbes the tiger, of course. Did you think it was Thomas Hobbes?)

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