Didier, the Luxuriant Dude from Dudelange

Around the border between Luxembourg and France and around Luxembourg city, there’s an area where many towns and villages have names that, embarrassingly, end on ‘-ange’: Algrange, Aubange, Bereldange, Bertrande, Bertrange, Boulange, Differdange, Entrange, Escherange, Evrange, Florange, Frisange, Guenange, Havange, Hayange, Helmsange, Hesperange, Leudelange, Lommerange, Luttange, Mondercange, Nilvange, Oetrange, Ottange, Pétange, Rédange, Rumelange, Russange, Schifflange, …

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Anyism!

– What’s that you’re reading?– Oh, it’s a detective story …: “Detective Desmond Dongle & The Secret of the Seven Safes”.– Any good?– Hmmm … that depends on what you mean by “good” …– Why, I mean, is it a good story?– In a sense, maybe … I could maybe call it “good” ….– Ah.– …

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Kifffarces (5): Kiff in Amsterdam (en)

The day after a successful gig in Amsterdam, the lads from the Creepsterrock-formation Kiff had a day off. They decided to spend it in the Dutch capital because, as everyone knows, Amsterdam offers a fine selection of exciting and mischievous experiences that aren’t truly illegal, but still have a high potential for developing into awkward …

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Gotham City, 10.30 PM …

It was 10.30 PM in Gotham City and all was quiet. Batman was reading the Gotham Inquirer in the Batroom, while Batilda, his wife, was knitting up black leather socks in the chair across him. ‘Bruce…?’ Batilda asked on a tone that was a little dark around the edges, as a cloud on a sultry …

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The Racebike Borg-cluster

The Racebike-Borg-Cluster (RBC) – Dutch version below In practice the RBC consists of four to many dozens of drones. However, the Octad is the most numerous, balancing hive-mind dynamics and manoeuvrability. As the name suggests, these RBC’s consist not of individuals, but of drones*. This is a sub-type of the Exercise Drone, closely related to …

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Hendrik the Temporally- challenged Hipster

An inquiry into social dynamics Hendrik was a hipster, though not a particularly successful one. Other hipsters looked strangely at him when he tried to socialise with them in the cool places in town and they would roll their eyes demonstratively behind his back, because Hendrik’s sense for what’s hip, cool, hot and funky was …

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