This is not Burger King

This is not Burger King
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and i bet .. when you can stand the scorn and take it her way you'll eat the best sandwiches in Amsterdam

Donkey Bridge

Donkey Bridge
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this bridge is next to my house .. in Dutch een ezelsbrug is a proverb for a quick and steady way to memorize something .. and yes it would be adequate to say this bridge reminds me steady and quickly where i live

magic

magic
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two young magicians performed their tricks on us at station Haarlem .. one of them could tranfsorm two purple spheres into a cube .. the other one let sigarettes and pencils dissapear when he put them in a box

my trick is that i can make their heads dissapear without them even knowing ha

David en Goliath

David en Goliath
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this is one of the old squares of the Amsterdams Historisch Museum .. the restaurant David en Goliath put up some kind of box of metalglasswithwireshangingaroundeverywhere to protect the customers from wind and rain .. i think it sucks big time

hell

hell
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I had to think about Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano when i saw this Shell truck refilling the servicestations petrol tank

There's a story, possibly apocryphal, that after Lowry lost the manuscript to Under the Volcano in the fire at his shack at Dollarton, he was left that night with nothing to do but to stare disconsolately across the Fraser River at the Shell Oil refinery on the other side of the water. But the letter S had burnt out from the flashing giant Shell sign. So that all Lowry could see flashing at him in the darkness from across the river were the repeating red letters: 'hell' ... 'hell' ... 'hell'. (quote from malcolmlowryatthe19thhole.blogspot.com/2009/04/david-hard...

An interesting question is what a Shell truck is doing on Iceland. Providing petrol for cars of course. But doesnt that sound odd considering that Iceland is in a way one big energy plant?

Iceland is fully self providing in household and business needs for hydro- and geothermal electricity. Its abundance of electricity is even positioning Iceland as one the biggest aluminium smelters in the world. But ai .. cars dont ride on electricity or hydrogen (yet) .. so they need foreign companies to provide the petrol to make the motor run.

more on energy in Iceland
more on Malcom Lowry

Reykyavík International Film Festival

Reykyavík International Film Festival
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Talk of cinematown was Lars von Triers new movie Antichrist .. a seemingly gross horror that makes stomaches roll .. i tried to buy tickets but - like the puffins - they were gone already.

Lars von Trier ís the Antichrist said an icelander who hadnt seen the film either. I found a trailer though: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO-TNfPzh_k

into the light

into the light
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and under the bleachers