I Be Trippin’

Thanks to Aga, one of the lovely people who actually reads this blog, I recently received the opportunity to start blogging for Trippist.com, a site designed to help visitors to the Netherlands find out about some of the events going on throughout the country. It started primarily focusing on Amsterdam — what else is new [...]

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Bigger Than I Thought

The inaugural concert at Lincoln Memorial is being aired live on tv here. Not on CNN International, either, it’s on one of the “networks”. I’m honestly slightly surprised that it’s being aired, but it’s kind of cool that it is.
That said, why waste Herbie Hancock by pairing him with Sheryl Crow and Will.I.Am? Tsk.
I will, [...]

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Random Observation

You know how they start Mythbusters (and the return from most commercial breaks) with Jamie and Adam saying not to try this at home? I don’t remember seeing that at all when it’s aired here. Of further random interest, here, the voiceover is also done by someone with a British accent.
For that matter, Anthony Bourdain’s [...]

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Scotland in the Netherlands

As I’m sitting here as the clock moves close to 4 p.m., the church bell chimes that play a variety of different songs before each hour is currently playing Auld Lang Syne.
On a similar train of thought, we watched some of the Military Tattoo from this year on TV the other evening, followed by [...]

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