I hate December and the general pre-Christmas season. In my room I have no Christmas decorations. It is a refuge from the storm. I haven’t had time to do anything, much less post on this world famous blog. As a penance I offer a walrus playing saxophone.

I love it when they spend tons of money on scientific studies that prove what everybody already knows.

Germans are more pessimistic about the future than other Europeans, new information from the 25th annual Data Report from the Social Science Research Centre revealed this week.

This is nothing new at all.

Actually there are plenty of Germans who live for the day, hope for the best and are a joy to be around. I live with one*. However, they are often considered weirdos.

*See what I did there? 😉

One night last week at about 1:30 in the morning, I woke up to the sound of splashing liquid and muffled laughter. Through our window I saw some drunken teenagers down on the street below trying to steal our bench. I banged on the window loudly and scared them off.

As I was about to crawl back into bed, I remembered, “Wait, what was that water sound?” I looked down the stairs at our front entrance and realized some asshole had stuck his dick through our mail slot and pissed all over the inside of our front hallway. The rug was all wet about 5 feet inwards and it stank.

That rug really tied the room together.

I pulled on my shoes and a jacket and hopped on my bike and drove around for 5 minutes trying to find the fuckers, but the streets were deserted. I went home and pulled up the rug and mopped it all up and sprayed disinfectant. I went back to bed but I was so upset and riled up that I couldn’t sleep.

This will not stand, ya know, this aggression will not stand, man.

However, I am afraid what I would have done to the kid had I caught him. He probably would have gone for a cold swim in the Ilmenau.

Congratulations to Barack Obama. I haven’t felt this happy in years. This is one of those days where you get a warm fuzzy feeling in your heart because you are American. I think it is called pride. Some people around these parts don’t get it, but this is an amazing moment in history. If you are like me, you shed a few tears today. You will probably tell your children about it someday. I wish I was in America today.

To those who didn’t vote for Obama, and are now scared/disappointed/angry/nauseous, I know how you feel. I felt like that for 8 long soul-crushing and embarrassing years. Don’t worry, it’ll get better.

Funny thing. These two men battle each other tooth and nail, only for the winner to be awarded with a bucket of shit, handed to them by the Bush Administration.

Now the really hard work begins.

Update: WTF California??? You are seriously harshing my buzz, brah.

Please go vote. This is a historic election, no matter who wins. If you are undecided and want my advice, vote Obama. I like John McCain, I really do. He was my favorite Republican back in 2000, but his time is passed. Maybe if he had chosen a different running mate, I dunno. The Palin choice really shows a serious lack of judgment. This is not a poker game. If McCain, God forbid, were to die in office, Palin would be president. She would then be in control of our armed forces and have easy access to the nuke codes. THE NUKE CODES. Do you really want to face that kind of reality?

Think about that.

While Halloween is gaining in popularity in Germany, it has yet to make a noticeable impact in my neighborhood. For the 3rd year in a row, I have carved jack-o-lanterns and bought candy in the hope that some local kids would ring my bell and yell “Süßes oder Saueres!”, and for the third year in a row, we had no real trick or treaters. I say real because my girlfriend, knowing how disappointed I was with the turnout over the last 2 years, asked a neighbor to bring his kids over to knock on the door. That is almost as pathetic as your mom paying other kids to play with you. Plus, they didn’t have costumes on. It was quite obvious that they didn’t really undestand what they were doing. As I shoved candy into their hands, they gave their dad a look like, “why are we knocking on this stranger’s door and getting candy?”

Oh well. Maybe next year, I will put some trick-or-treater codes on our curb. Here are the jack-o-lanterns we made. At least none of them got stolen like last year.

Hallo Blahg Readers,
I haven’t updated in a while due to a few reasons:

1. I don’t have to. Nobody’s forcing me to do this.
2. I don’t have much of import to contribute to the blogosphere.
3. I’m busy.
4. All the really interesting stuff I could blog about, is much too salacious for such a wholesome family blog as this one. I don’t want to be responsible for corrupting your souls by subjecting you to all the Rock & Roll, hookers and blow, party party details going on in my life.

Marketing in Germany is weird. If you put an American flag on something, it sells. For example, American T-Shirts. Made in not the USA.

Hey! How about that economy?

More than you ever wanted to know about the hot dog and its many variations Basically about sausage and how it is served around the world.

Germany/Austria:

Sausages are often eaten on small paper plates with both mustard and ketchup, and with a small bun on the side. They are held in the fingers and dipped into both condiments before eating. Bread is eaten in between bites of the sausages, and is also dipped into the condiments. The most popular variant in Germany is the Currywurst: here the sausage is served in sliced bits and eaten with small throwaway wooden or plastic forks. In Austria, the term ‘hot dog’ refers to a hollowed out baguette bread, into which the sausage is then placed, along with condiments (like in France, without the cheese). Usually most of a vendor’s offering can be ordered as a hot dog. A similar form of hot dog placed inside of bread was popular in the former East Germany (and still in parts of the region today) under the name Ketwurst.

An 89-year-old granny caught slashing car tyres has been handed the painstaking punishment of knitting sweaters, the Kaiserslautern prosecutor’s office said on Friday.

She also reprimanded the judge for slouching and predicted colder weather while rubbing her elbow.