So my lietuviams.com interview from last year made me eligible to be selected as their person of the year. To vote for me, tick off some stars Netflix-style at this link. To see all the nominees, follow this link. (And I indicate my friends here.)
A friend of mine recently published a novel, Finding the Moon in Sugar, which one can buy on Amazon. I already wrote a pretty extensive “review” of sorts of it for Lithchat, but I think it might be interesting to the population of Donkey Hottie readers who don’t check out the other site. In brief, [...]
This summer I return to Lithuania for the second time in as many years (and will be back again next summer), so part of my trip preparation has been stressing over how to most economically turn my dollars into litai. This research is using a trip to Lithuania as a specific baseline, but I think [...]
Vincas sent me a photo he took of a sign in Užupis naming the republic in all five historical languages of the city: UŽUPIO RESPUBLIKA (Lithuanian) ЗАРАЧАНСКАЯ РЭСПУБЛІКА (Belarusian) רעפּובליק פון זאַרעטשע (Yiddish) РЕСПУБЛИКА ЗАРЕЧЬЕ (Russian) REPUBLIKA ZARZECZA (Polish) Here we have four different grammatical ways of expressing “Republic of Užupis.” The Lithuanian and Polish [...]
Yesterday, the second Akademikų išvyka to see When Lithuania Ruled the World, Part IV returned fully intact. I was part of the group, so I can tell everyone a bit about this play, on until the end of the month at the Chicago Cultural Centre. First, it was, of course, completely worth the $10 I [...]
First: HOM RAN. Go Sox. This is how you respond after I left my cap at Delicious Donuts in Berlin, where it was stolen in a probably anti-American-inspired move of hate? I’ll take it. Next: Vilnius is completely nuts. I knew this already, of course, but I can’t stop taking photos, and you will all [...]
Currently chilling me the hell out: Listening to Kraftwerk’s “Europe Endless” on loop. I’m still flipping out, and I still have nowhere to stay in Amsterdam, and the hallway smells like crêpes, but, you know, that’s sorta nice, too. Here comes a chorus again… (Europe endless Endless x4) x 2 (Life is timeless Europe endless) [...]
Ah! Jokes! I took a bunch of friends (actually, three other members of the Family plus young TDZ) to Seklyčia yesterday for Sunday dinner. The food was like it always is, though the koldūnai were larger than normal. Also, instead of fresh krienai, they just gave me Heinz Horseradish Sauce packets. Oh, and they don’t [...]
By the way, as I type this, it’s -24C in Vilnius. Granted, it’s midnight, but, still. Apparently, it was -20C on election day on Sunday, and still 50% of the people showed up to vote. Talking to Lithuanians this morning (their time), they told me they were excited that school had been canceled. Why? Temperatures [...]
I’ve had a bit of silence lately, which was largely the result of the aforementioned power supply meltdown. But I was also in, like, Toronto over the New Year (hence, away from the internet, though Lokys is pretending to be a sort of mini-internet café for anyone who wants to peep hotties late at night [...]
