We are finally back after our 11 days and 10 nights in Germany, so I can blog about it properly although in retrospect — internet access was very spotty there so I only managed the three previous via my iPhone via Flickr. Thus, like Billy Pilgrim, Goyablog has come unstuck in time. It jumps back […]

Cologne cathedral

Today we trained in from Aachen to Koln (Cologne, as in eau de) to visit the Nazi Documentation Center and City Museum there. We found time too for the spectacular cathedral, which survived the Allied bombing intact. We skipped touring bunkers there because we found a great book on […]

Beer in Aachen

We’ve been offline for a couple days now, but finally got a connection here in Aachen. We’re here mainly because things are too expensive in Cologne and here is where Charlemagne and 30 German kings were coronated. We had drinks and dinner literally in the shadow of the […]

Hamburg war ruins

Sara and I have spent the last 48 hours touring WWII bunkers and memorial war ruins in Hamburg, collecting material on the July 1943 firebombing of the city. We had a nice time with two guys, Roland and Jurgen, from a local bunker preservation group who gave us […]

Goyablog will be spared political rants by Goyaboy as he is leaving for Germany for 12 days. This trip with Sara is part of a course development grant we received to put together a course dealing with the events and postwar representation of civilian aerial bombing during WWII, particularly in Germany and Japan. The Japan […]

Doesn’t Hillary Clinton have a friend so can take her aside and inform her in boldly objective terms how ridiculous she sounds? I have lost any respect I had left for the Clintons (none, which means we’re in negative respect land now). Yesterday in Florida, in a delusional outburst, Hillary Clinton asserted that not to […]

Today my old house sold. Or rather, there was half a closing — I’ll get my cut of the proceeds tomorrow. It took only 400 days on the market, but clearly it was waiting for the opening of the first water lily of the season in my (now my former) pond, which happened today. An […]

CNN is so lame. Everyone knew that Clinton was going to slaughter Obama in West Virginia because of the “tailor-made demographic” for Clinton there (i.e., older, poorer, whiter, more female, and more undereducated — not exactly a demographic I’d be proud of). And yet, in absence of suspense, they need to create a story around […]