I just finished watching the "Kingdom/Riget" DVDs I bought a while ago. Hadn't seen this TV series directed by Lars von Trier in years but I still love them as much as when I first saw them.
A shame they'll never make season 3 of this brilliant TV series since both Ernst Hugo Järegård and Kirsten Rolffes have died after the completion of season 2. Both played major characters in the series thus without them it just makes no sense to make season 3.

This particular scene where Ernst Hugo Järegård's character Dr. Helmer shouts "Dansk jävlar!" is a running gag that sometimes occurs multiple times in each episode. If you know anything about the history between Sweden and Denmark you'll giggle like a schoolgirl every time you see this scene haha.

accident news

Here's the latest news concerning the accident from yesterday:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08264/913671-52.stm
The victim had the right of way but the bus driver most likely never even saw her.
It's strange knowing that the victim was European (German even) and probably didn't establish eye contact with the bus driver. Having the right of way and actually getting it are two different things.
I know Europeans are used to getting the right of way by simply crossing and thereby forcing the car driver to stop but American drivers don't have the same awareness of pedestrians and cyclists as Europeans have.
I'm Dutch and I cross in situations where most others would not but whenever there's a school bus nearby I never ever cross.
It's a very sad accident which, as many accidents, could've been avoided easily I think.

accident

When I left my house this morning around 9:20am to walk to my usual bus stop I was stopped by 2 women who told me there had been an accident at the intersection between my street (Monitor Street) and Shady Ave. I could see police cars and had to take a detour since they had secured the area.

Just looked it up in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08263/913447-100.stm
Apparently the bus struck the victim twice. Pretty horrible accident since it was a school bus and other pedestrians were around.

Nasty way to start the day but alas, such is life :-(

random pics

This pic is only funny for Dutchies: "kut" is the Dutch word for cunt. A band which calls themselves Cuntless is a serious candidate for worst bandname ever.















On campus ads to support the Obama campaign.



















There was a pretty serious storm last night which knocked out the electricity in several parts of Pittsburgh as well as ripped off some tree branches. Lucky car!

Warsaw

It's been a while ago by now but still worthy of a blog post methinks.
Went to Warsaw for about 6 weeks starting August 28 and this time I wisely opted to only bring carry on luggage! No more lost baggage for me mofos!!!

The main reason for the visit was Vader's 25th anniversary gig which was a huge blast. My REVIEW and Schorsch's cell phone pics can be found HERE.

Schorsch went back to Munich on Sunday and I stayed until Wednesday.
Here's some vids I made.





More vids, smaller ones can be found HERE.

RECAP: Joost and Iwan's visit

Joost finally posted most of his pics online: click HERE

But here's a bunch of pics with me in it. I still had the beard then so everybody who is massively disappointed in me for shaving it off:

















And the 2 best ones:




I know for a fact that there are also some funny museum pics with me in it but for some reason Joost decided not to put those online. So, to be continued hopefully...