Gross coalition

So Germany finally has a government again, after all these weeks. It would have to be said that it didn't seem to make much difference not having one, maybe because nowadays politics is just the shadow cast on society by big business, as John Dewey said. Meanwhile some people are looking over at Frankreich and starting to burn cars, including a couple here in Kreuzberg. Perhaps it's some of the young people you see on the U-Bahn who have some unaccountable aversion to using headphones to listen to their music.

I went to see Franz Ferdinand in the week and they were very good. In the audience we saw Daniel Brühl, who in the time honoured tradition of good looking film stars turned out to be 5 foot 4, leading me to wonder whether becoming an actor is yet another manifestation of Short Man Syndrome.

Cycling back from Treptow today I actually got overtaken by a dwarf on a child's bicycle.