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glow.like.berlin
glowlikeberlin.wordpress.com
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Berlin is the implosion of everything; like the brushed aluminum surface of shiny dark Germany got hit by a neon meteor and nobody bothered to clean up, just let little space lichens take root in the crevasses and grow into a chittering surrealistic moonscape. Tidepool of esoteric cool.
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Thaw

A single-serving slice of a story in progress. Photo via HAPPY ACCIDENT Boris and I were walking next to each other on a mushy day shortly after Christmas. Two days before, the water had frozen as it...

19 nov 11

Who Love-Hates NYC More: LCD Soundsystem or Gil-Scott Heron? Discuss.

Being relatively fresh on the scene, it could be years before I manage to cultivate that perfect patina of heavy-lidded disenchantment with this haughty, pugnacious city. So I had this great idea to ...

24 feb 11

New York’s Tired Fruit Metaphor Briefly Re-examined

The Big Apple? Really? No, New York tastes like a pomegranate – tart and explosive, endlessly clustered. Yes! A city of tiny universes like gelatinous seed pods, intricately layered, just touch...

11 jan 11

Pregame Playlist with Headless Horseman

Everyone, check out this band. Headless Horseman clangs and jangles like a rusty tin box filled with diamonds. If you live in NYC, you can go see them at Piano’s when their residency starts in ...

27 nov 10

New location, same great taste.

Don’t be afraid of change. It’s good for your immune system. But I get it. Right now you are asking yourself: how can a person have a Berlin blog in Brooklyn? That makes no sense. I’...

03 nov 10

I think we should agree to see other cities.

Hey, Berlin, we need to talk. Listen: before you say anything — it’s not what you think…I mean, wait, what do you think it is? Never mind. Wow- deep breath. Here goes: So over the p...

12 sep 10

Lomo forever.

It’s never occurred to me to call myself a photographer, but every now and then, I find myself having a good long thunk about photography and what might it all be about? One of the things IR...

20 aug 10

I’m just an animal looking for a home. Share the same space for a minute or two.

And, just like that, it’s suddenly somehow summer in Berlin. The city has unfolded his lovely jade moth wings and – flutter-flutter-glide – on a benign & balmy breeze, we’...

21 jun 10

The only amusement park in the GDR.

Berlin is a city of relics. Tiny, twinkling, charming relics and great colossal lumbering ones. Which totally jives with my fetishistic obsession with the antique and abandoned. The city is also quai...

19 apr 10

February in Berlin: A Survival Guide, Part II, in which a terrible/magical thing happens

Wait for it. Our brave travelers having now survived, for better or for worse, the murderous entirety of February and even the better part of March, we become groggily aware of a change. It’s c...

15 mar 10

More Fear and Loathing in the Eastern Bloc *OR* Your Favorite Blog Strikes Back *OR* February in Be...

Children, children. Settle down. If you’re really good I will tell you a story. But beware! We will pass through dark places, cold places, wild snarling volatile places, before we reach the glo...

03 mar 10

Candy to my Ears

Curses how is it possible that I have let fully two weeks go by without providing any sort of update on my comings and goings? I hope you weren’t worried about me. My withered soul was only hud...

31 jan 10

Pregame Playlist with Micachu & The Shapes

Woo! Happy Saturday! So I’m not even going to pitch this like dudes I just found this cool new band because, realtalk, I’m a little late on the uptake here. Really the most disappointing ...

16 jan 10

Journey to the Center of the Blogosphere OR Bloggers are Writers Too, yo

Sometimes people ask me, Lis what is the secret to having a cool blog? Yikes! I Don’t Know!, I tell them bashfully. Mostly I think it is all about reading lots of cool blogs. Well today I am he...

05 jan 10

An intro to Poland at 35,000 ft OR Let’s LOT and say we did

We’ve already learned that Berlin doesn’t really like it when I leave, and tends to throw childish tantrums. This time, mad blizzard action in NYC meant my Christmastime homeward flight w...

25 dec 09

glüh.like.berlin

Here’s something you might not know about Berlin, if you don’t live here: around the same time as Christmas, the sun does this nasty thing where it sets around 3 pm. If you blink…or...

20 dec 09

A Voyage, Confusion, & Music.

Boys and girls, a momentous moment in the short but glorious history of glow.like.berlin: I left Berlin. dramatic pause If this doesn’t make you shudder & gasp as it should, let me point ou...

05 dec 09

Shit Don’t Make Sense

For a girl who likes to think she’s real shiny and smart, it’s always kind of a dark jolt to the solar plexus when things happen in a way she can’t explain. It’s not pretty to...

22 nov 09

Pregame Playlist With Birds & Batteries

O MY! How have I left you alone in a world of silence without giving you any new music to listen to for so so so long? Were you bored? I’m sorry! Here is something fresh for your atrophied ears...

21 nov 09

IF I were in New York

THIS might be of interest

18 nov 09

The itinerary: Kitsuné Martini (not necessarily in that order)

TO DO: <<i sincerely hope this isn’t some kind of sassy symbolism. my fingertips are feeling the first phantom sting of subzero glass, i’m seeing the fiery candlelit twinkle of micr...

10 nov 09

Cloak & Dagger

Anyway, back to my main rant: Berlin is the perfect treasure hunter’s city. It’s a cave of jewels and ancient riches; it’s riddled with trap doors and mazes; underground; makeshift....

07 nov 09

Art on my lunch break

go see this. wild. c/o gallery.

22 oct 09

Oh Etsy, you get me.

unicorn ring by fleathers. rainbow not actually included. i wish Finally, a place where my obsessions with gold, with the awesome, and with cute lil animals doing silly stuff can be safely and conven...

11 oct 09

Krankgeschrieben!

No! it’s not what you think! I AM NOT faking. But the festive German tradition of the Krankenschein is new to me and causing pangs of guilt and confusion. It seems too good to be true….th...

02 oct 09

Walk With Me.

And this is the part where I force you retroactively to come with me on a ruminative walk I took yesterday on which 1) I felt sorry for myself for maybe (probably) having swine flu and 2) took a pict...

28 sep 09

Mad T-shirts

So while I’m on this kick of blabbing about how great my hood is, I thought I’d present some real hard evidence for the jury. BLACKDOORBEAUTY T-shirts. Yea, not so keen on the name either...

20 sep 09

everyone, meet the tarantula nebula

now be friends. i ♥ me my astronomy picture of the day

16 sep 09

A Friday Night for the ages

You might say that the theme for this post is bad photography. Or: what happens on a Friday night when you power through from work>>dinner>>club /party. Namely, exhaustion, drunkenness, ba...

13 sep 09

My neighborhood is the dopest

THIS confronted me while I was meandering down Gärtnerstraße the other day. For once I have little to say. Except that it somehow seems to just about sum it up, in terms of characterizing Friedrichsh...

12 sep 09

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