We found a very beautiful collection of old photographs, taken in the USA, the Netherlands and what seems to be Nazi-occupied Germany and Austria. But who are the people in these photographs? If anyone has any idea, any clues as to whom these photogr...
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November 3rd, 2009You might have heard about a weblog called “Filles Sourires“. It’s a website about “Fragile Girls Singing in French, Making me[...] Read the rest »
November 3rd, 2009The following sentence: “There but for the grace of you go I” is a line from Paul Simon’s beautiful “Kathy’s Song[...] Read the rest »
October 24th, 2009“Requiem voor oude woorden” een requiem voor oude woorden eerlang, aanstonds en alras, oude woorden zoals je ze vroeger wel hoorde toen soms nog [...] Read the rest »
September 23rd, 2009A pretty woman once told me to read Strindberg, so I read Strindberg. Sometimes that’s all it takes. She was at the time reading “Ensam”, stolen[...] Read the rest »
September 23rd, 2009Seeing how the trout season was coming to an end, the last weekend of september was going to be our last chance to fish for trout. Bart, who ahd never[...] Read the rest »
August 25th, 2009Afgelopen zaterdag kon er weer worden genoten van het jaarlijkse Prinsengrachtconcert in de grachten van de hoofdstad. Wederom leek heel Amsterdam te [...] Read the rest »
July 1st, 2009A short while ago I finished a book by Nick Hornby called “The Polysyllabic Spree”. It’s a collection of essays that Hornby wrote for the belie[...] Read the rest »
March 16th, 2009Yael Naïm, was born in Paris to French and Tunisian Sephardi-Jewish parents and she was raised in Israel, which explains why her songs are sometimes [...] Read the rest »
March 6th, 2009Een tijdje geleden stond ik op een huisfeestje van een bekende te luisteren naar een bandje. Het bleek een cd-release party te zijn voor hun eerste cd[...] Read the rest »
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