Detlef Cordes

It brings sentences like "the way is the goal" or "the end is defined by its means" into my head. And Houston, TX. ... find it here.

Franz Kafka: The Next Village

What became of communication?

So what did become of communication? A ritual? Like the ritual of the Latin mass that is supposed to be carried out but nobody really understands it? Like " If I say A you have to say B and if you say I don't know instead you break the rules and I am severely irritated".???

Gerhard Richter, yeah!

I wonder what is happening to these works as we see them online. A scaled JPEG from a photograph from a painting from a photograph.Commenting here

Cancer

I often feel cancer makes us all so helpless - of course you fight and sometimes you win. Very often you win. But it feels like the lottery and so unfair sometimes. Commenting here

Stars

Stars
Shining brightly
Fires through space and time
Uniting us
In their company.

I never ever tasted bad Mexican food

I never heard a piece of bad music by Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis or Duke Ellington. They were unable to create anything that wasn't authentic and even when Miles didn't exactly hit the note that was part of a wonderful, precious experience. I remember a record of a Tchaikovsky concerto for violin played by one of the greatest violinists I know, David Oistrakh, where he doesn't hit the right pitch, stops and plays that one note again so delicately and softly: a delicious mistake - so delicious that it isn't a mistake, but part of the experience.

Having said that: Mexican food was one of my greatest experiences when I traveled the US South. I never ever tasted bad Mexican food.

Autumn Music

Autumn has a very distinct mood.

The Puppy and Olive Show

Frigga does a great show with an olive.
I thought this piano improvisation might fit as a background.

I need to see a hairdresser

...badly ...

But I shy away from it - because however bad I look: I always look worse after the hairdresser.

Sometimes a black and white pic is extracting just the right amount of information.

All in a day's work

This dog doesn't like to be interrupted. I, ahm, try to educate her ...

No border on image link

How do I remove the blue borders around an image with a link? If an image is a link or rather: is the anchor of a link, that image has ugly blue borders by default in most browsers. That happened to me when I tried to embed an image from Flickr.

To remove that border you either add border="0" within the image tag, e.g.
<img src="image.jpg" border="0">.
I did it with CSS by adding the following code into the CSS stylesheet:
a img {
text-decoration: none;
border: none;
}
... and the border is gone...

Mobile Bay Stilt House

Adam asked for pictures of buildings in the sea and I remembered this one:

What else do hairdressers do but cutting hair?

Hmmm - maybe it's because I'm a man: but I find it so exotic to go to a hairdresser and not to want to have your hair cut. I mean: I don't go to hairdressers because I always look worse afterwards. What else do hairdressers do? OK: dye? Probably I'm totally ignorant ...

Reasons not to join a G+ hangout:

Because I have no webcam

and because I'm just out of bed

and have my early morning coffee

and I'd have to wash my hair first and

there are blotches on my sweater.