LIPSCHITZZZZZ.

DISCLAIMER:  for Broadway nerds only.
I’m catching up on Hulu (did you know it’s not available overseas?!  Yeah, neither did I.  So I’m watching SNL.), and one skit made me laugh a lot.  I’ll post it here.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/52190/saturday-night-live-save-broadway
Wish I could learn how to embed Hulu videos.

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MOST DAYS LATELY I AM CONTENT WITH MY SINGLENESS…

…but some days, all I want is to be thrust into an implausibly romantic situation – which starts out under terrible circumstances but ends with love, imperfect and hopeful – in Alaska with Ryan Reynolds.

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BACK HERE, BABY

(you gotta listen to this one.  Austin sent me some songs for my Sicily trip, and I never really cared for Animal Collective before, but this song sticks with me now.  “All I want is four walls and adobe slats for my girls…”)
I started my Sicily-Hannover journey yesterday morning at 8am, [...]

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SICILIA, YOU’RE BREAKIN MY HEART.

(go listen to Simon and Garfunkel’s “Cecilia” if you haven’t in a while.  For some reason I can’t find a good YouTube version of it.)
I’m here in Sicily with Mary Elizabeth, and I can’t tell you how wonderful it is.  You know when you hang out with someone and your soul feels revived?  That’s how [...]

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OBLIGATORY…

…but really not.  I wasn’t planning on making a “Michael Jackson Post”; I didn’t deem it necessary, because what could I say that hasn’t already been said?
That still remains clear, but I had to say something.  I’ve caught pieces of media coverage – I live in Germany, not Mars – and [...]

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WELL THIS IS OBNOXIOUS

U2 is on tour, and I kept forgetting to check the dates.  Now I’ve checked, and it appears that…
(a)  They are playing in Milan the night I fly from Germany to Sicily.  (I was thinking of flying into Milan, but it’d be too much hassle.)
(b)  They are playing in Berlin the night after I fly [...]

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LIKE THE OREGON TRAIL?

Part of my daily life involves going to Google Uebersetzer to make sure I know what the recipes on the backs of packages are saying.  This keyboard I’m using is American, and thus does not have all necessary letters (umlauts, etc.) that the German language requires…so, after typing in a line from the back of [...]

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EDIT:

Here is some very specific info I got when trying to find photos of the police blockade.

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MY HOMETOWN IS A ONE-HORSE TOWN, BUT IT’S BIG ENOUGH FOR MEEEEEE

(title from the very cheesy film, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, which I used to watch in my childhood…for whatever reason, this particular song, sung by my childhood crush, Gordon McRae, came to mind:  7:12 here)

I moved yesterday.  All my worldly possessions — all the ones I need, anyway, give or take [...]

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…AND JUST FYI,

I do realize that it’s been forever and a half since I last blogged. 
(To start you off with a soundtrack, here’s a German classic.  I saw it sung, horribly, on Deutschland Sucht Den Superstar.  Here’s the original.)

Let’s see if I can free-write some things that have been going on…
…I’ve been to [...]

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