Eggs & Toast will return shortly….
Posted: August 31, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »
Berlin, I will miss you, baby.
But a guy’s got to get some air once and a while. And not “Berliner Luft.” That doesn’t count.
If you need me I’ll be wandering the jungles of SE Asia.
Check this link if you really want to know.
The Berlin Wall: still dividing after all these years
Posted: August 18, 2011 Filed under: Eggs, The Friday Toast | Tags: august 13 1961, Berlin, Berlin Wall, capitalism vs communism, Deutsches Demokratisches Republik, Die Berliner Mauer, German Democratic Republic, Germany, humor, International relations, Mauerbau, mauerpolitik, Ossis, politics, sarcasm, satire, Wessis 1 Comment »
You ever been talkin’ to some person in maybe a bar or somewhere…this is another American you’re talkin’ to…and somehow something about the Civil War comes up, and you realize they have a very different take on the same history, they remember different heroes, different historic battles, different dates?
Well…as I reported on Saturday, Germany this week remembered 50 years since August 13, 1961, the day when, in the wee hours of the morning, soldiers rolled out the first coils of barbed wire and masons lay the first bricks of what would become The Berlin Wall, Germany’s version of The Mason-Dixon Line.
Germany’s civil war was a Cold one and between East and West. Read the rest of this entry »
The Youth is a Ghost, Haunting my Falafel Research:
Posted: August 14, 2011 Filed under: Eggs, Lost in Berlin | Tags: Arab Spring, Berlin, culture shock, falafel, humor, International relations, Liebig 14, Political fiction, politics, sarcasm, satire, South Sudan Leave a comment »South Sudanese independence…”We are all Egyptians”…Gentrifizierung NO, or a Brave New Squatter-free Berlin…and some damn-good chickpeas, a peanut sauce.
As a professional falafel controller, I read the store-front window advertising a rare style and was compelled to investigate. I was excited to find something new…and perhaps owners that weren’t flipping out over politics. My job hasn’t been easy lately.
Thin and crispy brown on the outside, a moist, green flavor explosion on the inside, a light salad, a peanut sauce drizzled over, a warm fresh pita. The plate a landscape of tasty; a pool of olive oil topped, lemony sour hummus, hills of foul, a North African bean salad, the coffee similar to a minty Arabic coffee, but served in a larger cup.
This was last week. My observations were positive.
A fairytale of the Berlin Wall: August 13, 1961 and the Big Bad Line
Posted: August 13, 2011 Filed under: The Friday Toast | Tags: august 13 1961, Berlin, Berlin Wall, Deutsches Demokratisches Republik, Die Berliner Mauer, German Democratic Republic, Germany, humor, Ossis, politics, sarcasm, satire, Wessis Leave a comment »
Things had been kind of nervous in Berlin, since the day two months before when the leader of the GDR, Walter Ulbricht, had sort of spilled the beans in answer to a reporter’s question: The Allies had formed a state. Would the Soviets then ‘control’ the border?
“There are people in the west that think we are going to mobilize construction workers of the capital of the GDR to build a wall? I am not aware of such an order, because all our workers are primarily busy building housing,” he rattled off. “Nobody has any intention of building a wall.”
Yea…but we didn’t ask about a wall, Wally…oh-shit.
