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Tag: Daveylands

  • Eelderwolde: somewhere in Drenthe

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    2 min read

    Time to get back to basics.

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  • Voor mijn valentijn

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    2 min read

    ik breng dit voor mijn gappies maar mijn valentijn is wel de liefste liefie, liefie … waar ben je nu ik ben hier maar jij niet (waarom zeg je daarom iedere keer? hoe kan dat … nou, weet ik veel (ik weet veel van mijn gappies maar darryl ja klopt hij weet alles tenminste alles…

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  • Stockholm Calling

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    5 min read

    Just like a Californian burrito maker, I’ve been preventing myself from spilling the beans by keeping them strictly under wraps (rim-shot!) but now seems as good a moment as any to announce that I will be moving to Stockholm. In ten days.

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  • Kyss

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    2 min read

    Oversättning: Linda Bönström och Boel Schenlaer. Läs på engelska.

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  • International Translation Day: Saskia de Jong’s ‘pier’

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    In honour of St Jerome and International Translation Day, here is my first ever translation, being a version of Saskia de Jong’s poem ‘pier’, originally published in Dutch in her book resistent (Uitgeverij Prometheus, 2006). Yay for translators!

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  • Welcome to the world of Feng Haag Shuiling™

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    5 min read

    Inhale this exclusive and sentimental bare-all catalogue, complete with links to further evidence of Shuiling.

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  • What was I doing there?

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    10 min read

    As threatened in my previous post, I’ve written a reflection on the many existential crises I endured during my three years in the Netherlands. Okay, endured is putting it a bit too mildly. Oh, I mean, strongly. Um … whatever. Warning: semi-extended rant follows.

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  • Stippen [polka dots]

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    2 min read

    Mijn co-piloot houdt stippen.

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  • Tasman Cain

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    1 min read

    PROF. J. E. HEERES, LL. D.

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  • tijger aan het plein

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    1 min read

    i can’t make out what they’re saying

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  • Anti-kraak

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    ‘Anti-kraak’ is a Dutch term for a person or group of people who occupy otherwise empty buildings, with the permission of the owners, in order to prevent squatters from moving in.

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  • Pronouncing the Dutch Alphabet

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    It would be nice to think that the English and Dutch languages are similar. In many instances – individual words, phrases, roots – they are indeed related; however it is precisely their differences that make true understanding possible. This is immediately apparent when any native English speaker confronts the strange and rigid (and seemingly atonal)…

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  • Tongzoenen

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    2 min read

    in the heart of your mouth there’s a tongue there’s a beat there’s a heart shaped like stars & that’s where you are (& valentine’s day lasts for ten more hours when you’re on the line you’re mine i’m whining about how time will neither speed up nor slow down & here we are in…

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