While Austria is still failing to ban smoking in closed public places (like restaurants, bars, etc.), California state law already restricts smokers. Probably for the first time, Austria came first in banning something that CA had allowed until July 1, 2008: Driving and Talking (on a cellphone) or Talking (on a cellphone) and Driving.
Safer Roads [...]

Is there any truth in this rumor? YES.
Last summer my host family and I were in the family van headed north to go some place, probably San Francisco or San José. We passed an In-N-Out and each of us was starving (we probably skipped breakfast) and were ready to throw in some real American food, [...]

People sometimes approach me with the question why I particularly like the city of San Francisco. Well, if a city has the following quality, I’d rate it as special and thus totally worth living there: A city that beautiful in the early morning hours that it would make you get up and take a morning [...]

Uh, I just feel like HAMBURGER now… · So California - unsure shot
Where I’d be going if I could break out of the saving (old) people’s lives? Hm. Good question. Susi’s off to Australia. Darn it, how come she’s the one on a plane heading South? Can’t wait for the spring. Life’s busy. Short update. [...]

like bad news (what a Modest Mouse reference) like conspiracy and deception about oh so accidental natural deaths, Terry Hatcher (and not just because she was Superman’s first choice), (somewhat) black humor evoked by acts of hypocrisy and backstabbing cellulite moms everybody would like to fool around with, and suburban garage sales where middle [...]

Oh, what a lovely connection. Innocent Scottish sheep meets kinky weirdo Austrian meets perfidiously maliciously megalomanic American. See the brand new bubblesnaps (link to a list of bubblesnaps entries on PHB) from December 07 and January 08.

Another year has just vroomed by. Just like that. Snap with your fingers and that’s how fast it felt to me. Happy New Year to all of my readers. 2008 will have a lot of things in store for me. Great decisions and new challenges are ahead. I get all excited when I think of [...]

I am happy to announce that my hostbrothers from Californ-I-A are visiting and staying with my family for a couple of days. We do have a tight schedule, because our time is limited. However, I am so glad that we could work something out. This weekend we are going to tour in Vienna, meet up [...]