This is a very belated entry on the occasion of Blog Action Day. Thank you, Suzy (www.wbii.net), for pushing !
In the 80ies, Copsa Mica in Transylvania was one of the most polluted cities in Europe, due to a local factory that produced negru de fum – soot ! The entire city was black, from the [...]

“While drifting about on the ocean / I started feeling lonely,/ and to do away with this sentiment / I began talking to myself’ . These are the opening lines of New Crusoe, TUSK’s latest theater production, yours to grab and unravel, here in town, in English.
If asked to tell what the play was all [...]

Prevent Swine Flu – Some Good Advice
The only portals of entry are the nostrils and mouth/throat.
In a global epidemic of this nature, it’s almost impossible to avoid coming into contact with H1N1 in spite of all precautions. While you are still healthy and not showing any symptoms of H1N1 infection, in order to prevent proliferation, [...]

Enlightened Europeans gather, celebrate, commemorate, debate, update….fair enough, it would be wrong not to do so. Yesterday: Rememberance Sunday – saw state-of-the-art BBC documentaries on bravery, patriotism and supreme sacrifice.  Today: Twenty years since the fall of the Wall in Berlin. Gorbatchev is older, Lech Walensa is older, Voityla is gone and it is politically correct  to say no to [...]

A VIM – very important man – in my life can not speak, write, read or move. He is weary of being the bundle he has always feared to become. Even in this state, he keeps pushing my buttons…or is it me who reacts, even now, when the claims are actually on mute ?
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