The Honourable Husband
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Marty is a talkative Australian/American ad guy living in Germany. He and his Japanese husband regularly find new reasons to think the other odd.
Follow up: Instagram apparently noticed that I bought a nose-hair trimmer, has assumed I’m a vain old gay guy, and started pushing stuff like this. I find it presumptuous and insulting. Gotta admit I’m tempted by the leather jockstrap, though.
3. For the album “I Like It When You Sleep for You Are so Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It”, designer Samuel Burgess-Johnson and photographer David Drake took photos of the signs for each track; fittingly, they snapped this one at a Sainsbury’s Local in W12. #theRSA
QQ for #London pals: There is no Westcheap, right? #ロンドン #dailywalk
Don’t often post about work here on 🦋 but hey, this rocks. I’m speaking at MAD//Fest London with the ultra cool Christina Habib. Come and hear “Your Creative Doesn’t Work, Human or AI”. 10.50 am, AI & Innovation Stage. Look forward to seeing all my London pals! #MFLondon26 #theculturefactor
Since becoming a consultant, I have earned a black belt in Power Point. But I still only get a participation trophy in Excel.
Alcohol free beer + 5G + generous data plan + #biergarten = perfect summer office. Productivity quite OK, considering. #Munich #München #Haidhausen #dailywalk #afternoonstroll
As I say, spring is the best time of the year in our neighbourhood, and it’s almost over. The camellia trees have lost their flowers, but the cherry trees hang on. The ones at the nearby Union Bank of Switzerland are hella grand, but more dot the streets. #Munich #München #dailywalk
Dear Germany: Green asparagus is better than white asparagus. #annualreminder #spargelzeit
Springtime is the best season in our neighbourhood. #Altbogenhausen was built in the Jugendstil style, a.k.a. art nouveau. Floral motifs featured strongly in decorative art, and gardens got planted with flowering trees to match. Camellias always bloom first. #Munich #München #artnouveau #dailywalk
Coincidentally, spotted yesterday. Either a Munich-based company renting construction cranes, or what a Schiki-Miki gets when they travel to Gstaad for a nip-tuck vajazzle.
#Munich is one of the most highly parked cities in the world—and in that, it reminds me of my adopted hometown of #Adelaide. This scene sits smack dab in the middle of town. And spring brings out the best in the place. #Mũnchen #dailywalk
ChatGPT also thinks you’re a Gemini with Scorpio rising. I would have picked you for a Sagittarius. 😘
1. Today’s #GratuitousDenglisch adds a dose of #GratuitousBoarisch, the Bavarian dialect. There’s so much gratuitous #Denglisch here that it’s difficult to choose—opening, store, beauty. Let’s call out “goodie bag”. German speakers: does this complicated pun work for you? #dailywalk …/2
Through the window at Geiegnbau Löffler. Nearby Haidhausen hosts lots of creative businesses. #Munich #München #Haidhausen #nightlystroll #dailywalk
The Tollwood Music Festival takes over the Olympic Park each summer. Headlining this year are the remaining members of some A-List acts. Plus, your chance to see a famous meme in the flesh. #Munich #München #dailywalk
Spring has arrived across southern Bavaria! The city of #Munich has broken out its customary festive signage, celebrating the change of season in a very German way. #München #Hofgarten #dailywalk
Today’s Gratuitous #Denglish, City Council Election Edition: So much Denglish to choose from! Let’s pick SAME. The illustration jokes about needing glasses to tell the main parties apart. #Munich #München #stadtratswahl #dailywalk
Today’s Gratuitous #Denglisch: Hey You. #Munich #München #Altstadt #dailywalk
A political group at the Munich city elections agrees with thee. My education in the #humanities gave me two valuable gifts. It made me highly economically productive, and built my character. Signs: 1. “You can get by without culture, but it’s all crap.” 2. “Without culture, everything’s the same”.
Today’s Gratuitous #Denglisch. A late improv on Happy Holidays. BTW, German has a perfectly serviceable word for “pistachio”, too. #Munich #München #dailywalk
2. I was determined to find the source. Turned out, it’s the new MagSafe bedside phone holder. When you bekleber the phone to it, you hear a confirmation note followed by a chord at a higher interval. A perfect fourth, I recall from my time as a sullen, mail-it-in high school music student…/3
Today’s Gratuitous Denglisch: Super Bowl. Honorable Mention: Snacks. #Denglisch #SuperBowl #Munich #München #lifeingermany
THEN: If we tolerate homosexuals and polyamorists, it will rip apart the fabric of our civilization. NOW:
Near our house sits Europaplatz, where #Munich police cordon off a zone for drunk pyromaniacs to set off NYE fireworks. This photo from 2007 shows why we decline to participate. The smell the gunpowder still lingers in the air. Where’s the nanny state when you need it? #München #happynewyear
For anyone who’s seen the film (or even just the poster) it’s the first thing the sign brings to mind.
POP QUIZ: What is this sign trying to say? Both right and wrong answers welcome. #Munich #München #Haidhausen #dailywalk
It was only a light dusting, but #Munich officially squeaked in a white Christmas. Trust you and yours enjoyed the holiday, wherever you are. #München #Weihnachten #dailywalk