The Pleasures of Expecting this Year to Come to an End

# 39 Adam Zdrodowski, Warsaw Raisin bread with sweet molasses, baked Alaska and sunglasses. This is what we’re eating, this is what we’re wearing. Bye, bye, honey pie; and take care, Joe, see you in a mo. Continue reading →

The Pleasures of Buying Rucksacks

# 38 Adam Zdrodowski, Warsaw Thinking about my penultimate post (or perhaps – ultimate, if I don’t come up with something before 12 AM tomorrow) I was looking for a new rucksack but couldn’t make up my mind. Unfortunately, all the ingenious things I wanted to write escaped through the hole in the old one. Continue reading →

The Pleasures of Discovering Contemporary Turkish Poetry

# 37 Adam Zdrodowski, Warsaw “For the streets turning into a marketplace everyday; For the fact that that you refreshed drowsy flowers in your hair;” (Ilhan Berk, “Thank You,” Selected Poems, trans.  Önder Otçu and Murat Nemet-Nejat, Jersey City, New Jersey: Talisman House 2004) Continue reading →

The Pleasures of Not Deserving Fudge

# 36 Adam Zdrodowski, Warsaw   ‘cause I was a bad bad boy: not a single post in seven days and a half. Touch Me I’m Sick: Continue reading →

The Pleasures of Saturday (Not There Yet)

# 35  Adam Zdrodowski, Warsaw   Silhouettes and shadows watch the revolution David Bowie, “It’s No Game (Part 1)”  Smoke and mirrors, silkscreens and silver, grit and soot. Soon: Saturday. Continue reading →

The Pleasures of Spoonerism

# 34  Adam Zdrodowski, Warsaw  Found a diamond in the gutter Thurston Moore, “Mina Loy” The Effectual Marriage or the Insipid Narrative of Gina and Miovanni. Jomeo and Ruliet. Weter and the Polf. Par and Weace. But Pride and Prejudice all the same, any time. I hind it fard to prite woday. (But I have … Continue reading →

The Pleasures of Making up for not Posting for Several Days

# 33  Adam Zdrodowski, Amsterdam-the Hague-Amsterdam-Warsaw.  This is how it was: finding it a bit difficult to get out of Amsterdam’s Schiphol-trying to find your way to the hotel-enjoying the weather (but this will change)-visiting Rijksmuseum-skipping some details-taking a train to the Hague-getting to the seaside hotel in the blistering wind-getting wrong directions to the … Continue reading →

The Pleasures of Amsterdam

are nothing like anything you might have expected. Hence, exhausted and relieved, I’m posting early. Goedenacht.   #32, Adam Zdrodowski, Amsterdam Continue reading →

The Pleasures of Leaving Warsaw

(tomorrow). If only for a few days. # 31, Adam Zdrodowski, Warsaw. Continue reading →

The Pleasures of Getting Souvenirs from China

# 32, Adam Zdrodowski, Warsaw. Today I got a souvenir from Beijing’s Tiananmen Square – a wind-up watch: the second hand has a red five-pointed star at the tip and on the dial the 1st Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Mao Zedong, now turned into a harmless, comic strip … Continue reading →