http://www.hvdk.com            Blinded by the Light Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:54:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My girlfriend works at a company called AMT Biopharma. Although the company is working on a highly revolutionary cure for a disease so rare that I keep forgetting the name, it is not a boring job. Every other day some employee is upset, calling in sick or what have you. A few ... http://www.hvdk.com/archives/693 At the age of 85 Bettie Page died. We all know that generations ahead will be looking at photographs showing her in different poses from cute to downright hot, so it is not a complete and definitive goodbye. If I think of Bettie Page, immediately the name Irving Klaw comes ... http://www.hvdk.com/archives/683 It seems that on all historical days in my lifetime I am either redecorating or moving. I was redecorating my apartment when the great Dutch Peace Demonstration (1981) took place in the streets around me. I was moving my belongings to a new apartment when Theo van Gogh was stabbed ... http://www.hvdk.com/archives/645 Even after 14 years, I still enjoy my Internet connection more than I ever enjoyed TV. Today I ran into a piece written by a feminist who thought it was time to defend Sarah Palin. She wrote the following; http://www.hvdk.com/archives/624 Andy Warhol's Screen Tests from Plexifilm on Vimeo. Loyal Ameanet friend Norski aka Normano sent me a link to the above video and it made my day. About a year ago, I guess, a friend asked me to see the Andy Warhol exhibit in Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum. I never liked brick and ... http://www.hvdk.com/archives/604 I applaud the decision of appointing a man of Moroccan descent as mayor of the city of Rotterdam where the far right has spun out of control and where more problem areas exist than in any other city in the Netherlands, but I really do not like the choice of ... http://www.hvdk.com/archives/580 The economy seems to be in free fall and I can't help feeling optimistic about that. Not because sex sells better in hard times. Our AmeaNet sites have never been enormous cash cows. That the Euro has a more realistic value compared to the dollar does help though. (For as ... http://www.hvdk.com/archives/552 I have learned to refrain from comments on the USA -- the hard way. Blaming the US for anything substantial will inevitably result in outcries of US citizens who describe themselves as patriots. They will immediately point a finger at you and accuse you of "America bashing". Now that is ... http://www.hvdk.com/archives/508 A few days ago somebody asked me if I could give an estimate of how many women I had slept with throughout my life. Instead of answering that it all happened a long, long time ago, my mind drifted off for no apparent reason to a question that seemed to ... http://www.hvdk.com/archives/494 This is what we had all been waiting for; the well-trained men, carefully shaven from top to bottom. Somehow there were fewer of them this year - at least in my perception. At times I had the feeling that the spectators were most definitely upstaging the parade. That is what ... http://www.hvdk.com/archives/478