“The flavour has been described as a combination of strawberry and pineapple, with sour citrus flavour notes contrasting with an underlying creamy flavour reminiscent of coconut or banana.” Wikipedia
“And your eyes… The last days have been bad again. Someone shot the maple – neatly every single leaf. Why? Every year anew… the doubts are eating me up. They made me shut down the past days, way too much sleep, the whole day. Prone to tears, a lot of crying, no energy. M. is …
“I stored the fact that there were real glasses in the corner of my mind the way a squirrel stored a nut.” S. Plath. “Currently every transition from being awake to sleeping and, much more, from sleeping to being awake is a small trauma. I don’t know the reason for it but getting up is …
“… the last view weeks have been, … pathetic, I must admit. Some feeling got a toll on me again, it made its nest inside of my guts, some feeling I have certainly not invited. I feel numb, indifferent, deaf. Also the travels couldn’t change anything about this. There’s nothing I’m longing for more but …
— MacIn-What? At the end of July I had the honour to not only partake in the Annual Meeting of the ISME in Saint Louis, USA but also hold a presentation there myself. This entry is supposed to offer a tiny introduction to who Alasdaire MacIntyre is and portray what I have to do with …
I am very happy to announce that I will talk at the “New Left Debate” in Vilnius/Lithuania at the Institute of Critical Thought “Demos” on March 27th. The topic will be “Food Sovereignty, Animal Rights and the Commodification of Life” – from an activist point of view. The “theory-part” will be covered by the Italian …
Let’s assume you’re vegan. Is it OK to dumpster dive (or skip, as the Brits would say) meat or animal products? Which moral implications does this problem face? For a lot of people I know, who are vegans or vegetarians it is a clear thing that they “can” (respectively “want to” or “allow themselves …
The pictures in this post are from a stormy night in Reykjavík…. My stay in Iceland has become more interesting, ever since I started actually meeting people and socialize. Particularly I slowly merge into some sort of sub-society, which consists of both, Icelanders and foreigners like me, who are staying just temporarily. This sub-society is …
When I first heard Guðrún, my landlady and flatmate, talking about her giving anti-discrimination and anti-racism trainings in whole Iceland I caught myself thinking: „Iceland? Do you even need this?” Well, after a brief while I figured myself how naïve that was. Why should Icelanders not have discriminative or racist attitudes and ideas? I guess …