Cav's Place

On May 4, after doing the day’s squats and eating lunch, I initially walked out at 6:30 PM, going to vote. Then I came back to take the recyclables with the deposit symbol and the paper, walking out again when it was almost 6:55 PM, dropping off the paper in a recycling bin, putting the […]

As I was saying, since Israel still wasn’t banned alongside Russia and Belarus, I’ll once again replace what used to be my usual posts about Eurovision with one about FalastinVision which, just like last year, I’m writing a week after the show. This time around, I didn’t even try to watch any of it, just […]

The 19 years that passed since I read the first book were a serious reason for concern, so it was a relief that the fact that readers were likely to need a lot of reminders was fully taken into consideration. Not that it’s surprising, considering the 28 years that passed between the respective release dates, […]

The danger was real, but in the end things turned out as close to well as possible over here, with Nicusor Dan winning the presidential election. And he actually did so more clearly than I expected… Or, more exactly, more clearly than I thought possible, because I wasn’t certain that he was going to win, […]

Last year I was saying that it was easy to boycott Eurovision, since Romania wasn’t participating or broadcasting on TV and watching live on-line wouldn’t have been feasible when I had to get ready for that year’s half marathon, which was taking place the following morning. And the lack of participation or TV broadcast remains […]