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Monthly Archive September, 2017

Xandria and Dianne Part Ways

Can’t say that the announcement just posted by Dianne was unexpected after the one posted by the band yesterday, but it’s still sad… It is somewhat refreshing to see her state her side so clearly though, unlike those hiding behind more or less generic or formal statements that attempt to mask the real reasons and […]

Submission for The Guardian’s Population Podcast

When I saw that this month’s edition of The Guardian‘s We Need to Talk About… podcast will be about population, mainly in terms of its connection to climate change but also in terms of how else fewer children would affect the world, and that members were called to submit questions and views, I obviously had […]

Free Ethnic Food, Syrian Embassy’s Guestbook and Other Updates

Sure don’t feel like writing another post now and was about to give in and end up with a Sunday update tomorrow, but I guess I’ll give it a try and start with what actually happened to cause my UPS to beep yesterday morning, when it woke me up after I had just managed to […]

Still too Sane and too Much of a Coward Even for the Little Things to Make Me Snap

Cracked just enough two nights ago to send someone I more recently started talking to, and very recently at length, a message saying I was having another moment of wondering how the heck didn’t I snap already. Or, of course, not really wondering, because I know the reason is that I’m too much of a […]

We (Few) Won’t Give Up Rosia Montana – September 1 in Bucharest

I already linked to an article offering a few more details in my previous post and more background is available for those interested, but the very short version of the reason why we “celebrated” exactly four years since the start of the “Romanian Autumn” of 2013 with another protest on the same topic is that […]