Wilson Chebet won in 2:05. The new world record was set the month before in the Berlin Marathon at 2:03 – watching Wilson fly by was how Kristin and I celebrated one year since we ran this marathon in over double the amount of time Wilson took.
“Bankers are wankers” was by far the catchiest placard at Occupy Amsterdam (Saturday October 15, 2011) when I dropped by.
The tents for Occupy Amsterdam set up in Beursplein on Damrak between Dam Square and Centraal. Beursplein is the Amsterdam equivalent of Wall St or Bay St (for Canadians), with the stock exchange, etc.
This summer in Amsterdam was the rainiest since 1909 (or thereabouts). I escaped it for spending the entire month of August in the motherland. See more photos here.
“I think we ought to read only the kinds of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?
… we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide.
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”
-Franz Kafka
If you didn’t know it already, after reading this you’ll likely agree, that this doesn’t apply to even half of books getting published, sold, and read these days. And therefore most books getting published, sold, and read these days are crap. But at least we still have Kafka.
The rest of my pictures from my trip are here.
More images of the largest ever civil society resistance to the CASTOR nuclear transport -of which I had the honour of witnessing.
Kristin, and I just after finishing 42 kilometres in approximately 5 hours.
Our cheering section from the finish line.
Us again – now with flowers!
