Occupation/identity/language

Went to the museum of the occu­pa­tion of Latvia today. Very confronting. Latvia has been occu­pied by both Ger­many and Russia con­tinu­ously from 1939, first one, then the other, then back to the Red Army. In the pro­cess, a third of all Latvi­ans were killed....

Omigod I want to go to Lithuania

So I picked up a flyer at the goth club (good band play­ing from Sweden, by the way. In Grey, if any­one’s interested). The flyer is for an event in Lithuania that sounds AMAZING. I transcribe: :::::::::::::::::::::::Black Horned...

Riga

It’s just dough, spin­ach, cheese and garlic, but the first bite into a piroski trans­ports me instantly back to child­hood. Even just the dough: there’s some­thing in it that tastes like no other dough. My mother used to make meat piroski too, hot...

Flash mob!

I’m in Riga, Latvia (and strangely, have free net access, wire­less, in a spiffy modern caf when Bar­celona could­n’t provide this… what’s going on???). Will post more about the city and the other stuff later… BUT! i have received my first flash mob invite and...

Baltic Sea Philosophy

from almost the first moment it was kant heide­g­ger nietzche deleuze fou­cault you-name-it we name-dropped it, argued over rel­ev­ance and chal­lenged each other to define terms, over beer, over vodka, in the dank cabin, in the smoke filled bar, under the...