My digital camera broke (the feared E18 software crash) so I did what any good dotcommer would do: I bought a scanner. Canon's now sending me a new camera, but in the meantime, I made a page from Hither's pink party and another Cali page (the pics aren't much better):

Scott Anderson has a perfect explanation of the peril which awaits ex-pats in The Fatherland:

First there was this: Then there was this.

Benny and I are talking about the school for the blind in Marburg, he says: "I feel really sorry for handicapped people." Pause. "Maybe it's the way they dress."

I'm not entirely comfortable with some of the things that happened while I was away. Consider:

In Santa Barbara, Steve, feet on the dashboard, taps into the California vibe: "I want to move to the States, become an apolitical moron and have a hot, dumb girlfriend." Uh huh.

The Encino Velodrome never changes.

I was in Cali.