Tag Archives: WTF

Dynasty and socially acceptable homophobia

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Cora

An obscure satellite station has started rerunning Dynasty in a late night slot, one episode per night, and so I recently came across it. Now I haven’t watched Dynasty – and I always have to force myself not to refer … Continue reading →

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Some Reflections on the Lower Saxony State Elections

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Cora

As promised, here are my remarks and reflections about the Lower Saxony state elections, somewhat belated, because I was tired and busy and because the election result frankly baffled me. Because to be honest, I fully expected the conservative CDU … Continue reading →

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Lover Misshelved

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Cora

Yesterday, I went to Bremen with my Mom to buy some of those things you can only get in the city centre. It was still unpleasantly hot and I hate going out when it’s hot, but unfortunately I no longer … Continue reading →

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Help – The Spam Bots are taking over

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Cora

Like every blog owner, I get a fair amount of comment spam. Site visitors almost never see it, but unfortunately I have to skim it, because occasionally a legitimate comment ends up in the spam bucket. So I’ve seen a … Continue reading →

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A bit of searchterm weirdness and a great link

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Cora

For some reason, several people reached my site today by googling the name of a certain German politician and secretary in Angela Merkel’s cabinet in connection with “imcompetence”. Now I don’t recall ever having called said politician imcompetent in these … Continue reading →

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Rembrandt, Elsje Christiaens and a stats oddity

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Cora

Does anybody have any idea why 150 people, most of them in Norway and Denmark, felt the need to search for “Elsje Christiaens”, an 18-year-old Danish girl who was executed in Amsterdam in 1664 for beating her landlady to death … Continue reading →

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Salman Rushdie is being controversial again, the Booker Prize shortlist is too readable and a headline from a parallel universe

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Cora

In a lengthy interview with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz Salman Rushdie talked about a lot of things such as the fatwah against him, the persecution of writers worldwide, the Arab Spring, the upcoming film adaption of Midnight’s Children – oh … Continue reading →

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A weird coincidence and some links about women and writing

Posted on September 3, 2011 by Cora

Today I did my grocery shopping and ran into a girl (well, woman by now, but I have known her since we were four) I had been friends with in kindergarten and primary school. We later went to different secondary … Continue reading →

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A real life vampire, the resurrection of the gothic and two great artists remembered

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Cora

I’m not feeling too hot today. It’s either the weather or there was something wonky about the Tofu burger or the dusty bottle of African style ketchup I had with it last night. My latest e-book still isn’t up at … Continue reading →

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More August Search Term Weirdness

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Cora

August seems to be the month for weird searches, because I got some more really strange search strings in the past few days. For example, someone apparently typed “wanking outdoors to passers by” into a search engine and landed at … Continue reading →

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