Sunday, December 12, 2010

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Sunday, December 5, 2010

The Tough Times : Another Amadeus Post on Craigslist

http://berlin.en.craigslist.de/zip/2094320429.html

On November 29th, 2010,  Amadeus Hostel, lost it's worst worker.

On November 30th, I went to the doctor with my severance pay, and got my fix of Cortisone for the eczema on my arms, chest, forehead, stomach and leg area.

On December 1st, I got my first case of the Cortisone blues, and considered quitting my new job at Alcatraz Hostel so that I may have more time to think about how things got the way they did, and this picture of King Saul by Bruegel:


death 2 commentary

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Richard M. lures the girl into the forest with a doll.


“Help!  My neighbor is always photographing my daughter,” says Angela Burbach (42), a grocer from Zurich in Switzerland, as she takes her daughter Julia (9) protectively into her arms.  “I can’t find peace of mind for one minute, I’m so scared for my nine-year-old daughter.  I am sure that my neighbor is a creeper!”  In despair she pushes her face into her hands.  Her nerves can’t take it anymore.  She can not understand why it is that her creepy neighbor won’t leave her little daughter alone.  For months, he’s been giving her little gifts.  He photographs the nine-year-old kid again and again, speaks with her and watches her playing on the monkey bars.  Julia has gone from being a happy child to a shy, guarded girl.  She has become insecure and timid.  “The neighbor is really weird,” she says.  “He always gives me gummy bears, cookies and tells me how pretty I am.”  The girl with the blue eyes and merry blond locks doesn’t know to react to the neighbor, who always comes off as a bit too friendly.  Richard M. (38) lives in the same house as Angela and her daughter, and he is at first glance friendly and helpful.  When the single mother moved in to her new place two years ago, her neighbor helped her with numerous little favors.  “He repaired Julia’s kid’s bike and would accept packages for us,” remembers Angela, pensively.


(an excerpt from "My Neighbor is a Creep" by Reportage Team, Berlin, transl. badly by Illuminati69)