Essential kitchen equipment: the 'All Men Are Bastards' knife block! Much nicer than the typical polished wood block from Ikea :) Just be careful who you give to as a present for Christmas... Many more of these gadgets at www.iwoot.com

ch-ch-change-heees!

changed the layout and colors a bit (thanks Matt!). It isn't all perfect yet, but we'll get there at some point :)

Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

Tim Burton - how can you not love his work? The animation is a lot smoother than Nightmare Before Christmas, but the story is sweet and the characters are just great. Saw the movie yesterday.

Kinky Boots

Went to see Kinky Boots with Nev. It's hilarious! Really funny, with a bit of a serious note as well. www.thefilmfactory.co.uk/kinkyboots/

in4mador

www.in4mador.com A great collection of links, nicely organised in different categories. Good for hours of browsing, and some of the sites are just great.

Bootylicious

Just got back from Bootylicious, the largest gay Urban clubnight in the UK. I hadn't been for over a year, and it was cool to go there agin. I just love the music, a mix of rap, R&B, ragga, soul and dancehall. The crowd? Mainly black, and very enthusiastic. The fighting lesbians are a regular attraction :) BUT.... tonight they just went too far. Two girls started fighting, and one of them managed to spread tear gas on the dancefloor. I was right next to it when it happened, I had never experienced tear gas before but I can assure you it is not a nice experience. Fortunately, my friend Gizzia realized much more quickly what was going on and he showed me to cover my nose and dragged me outside. It was unsure whether they would continue playing music, and after some discussions they did start the musice again. But after a few minutes the promotor announced that because of safety reasons they were closing the club for the night.

winter

Winter has come to the country where everyone has an ipod in his bag but no decent shower in his bathroom: it started to rain. It will probably continue until May, when we have two warm weekends and three dry-ish months. One could call it the wet season, but then again the dry season isn't really dry. Around half January we can expect about 2 cm of snow during three days, which will cause the traffic to come to a complete standstill standstill. Trains, of course, won't be running either but that's a rather normal situation. If they do run, they get off the track very easily and crash, so it isn't really that bad they don't go out.

Almost weekend....

Frank Lloyd Wright in Pop Up

Popped into Liberty during my lunch break and saw this really cool book: Frank Lloyd Wright in Pop-up. I’ve seen quite some pop-up books with buildings before, and most of the time they don’t really look that good. The round buildings are rather square, the tall buildings don’t stand up straight etc. Not this one though: detailed, very good pop-ups of six of Wright’s most important buildings. I think I know what to ask for christmas, hehe.

Going to Norway to visit my friend and ex-collegue Torild! I am leaving the office on the 12th of November after work, going straight to the airport, and I will be back on sunday around midnight... Then work on monday *auch*
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/no.html

My friend Andrew started his own club night, launch night was yesterday. It will be on twice a month at the Fringe, on Kennington Lane (just around the corner from where I live, how very convenient). Urban music, in a venue that has this house party feeling to it. Different, much more intimate than a regular night club. Go check it out!

Atomium

André Waterkeyn, the engineer who created one of the most intruiging buildings in Belgium for the World Expo in 1958, died on saturday at the age of 88. Bit of a pity, as after a long battle they finally started the renovation of the whole thing, and it's only a couple of months until it is re-opened to the public. He won't be there to see the final result of the renovation.

Originally, the Atomium (a huge enlargement of an Iron atom) would have been demolished even before the World Expo ended. Fortunately, it survived, and after the renovation it should be shining again.

www.atomium.be