Country: The Netherlands

What can I say…sometimes you just want to carry around an umbrella and wear a top hat.

Rotterdam – New Year’s Umbrella Party

Even dainty girls know how to throw down on New Year's. Lift up your skirt, embarrass your parents and lose your umbrella for the first time.

Rotterdam, The Netherlands – 2013 Trapped in a dark, cold and rainy place for New Year’s 2013, I decided to sleep through fireworks so I could wake up dreary and early to clean up the mess other creatures make in their celebratory behavior of another bleak year. After stepping out of the house a bird shit on my head before I had even walked 10 meters. Thankfully I was wearing a hood because I like pretending to be the Grim Reaper. While I was looking for people to brutally murder I found nothing but empty streets and broken umbrellas. Yeah, I know…slightly disturbing, but my mental state had eroded so much that I didn’t give a flip. Anyway, here’s the result of too much alcohol and a lack of respect for the environment.

a happy story about dreams

For the past few months I’ve had difficulty sleeping through an entire night. Most nights I wake up from nightmares revolving around a few different themes, predominantly suicide, a sense of loss and hopelessness. This may be hard for you to understand as generally my writing is incredibly cheery and heartwarming. A few months ago one of my friends committed suicide. We weren’t that that close but it was one of those cases where you…

Berlin daydream

Reverse cup holder...New Year's style.

Last night, with the help of my current host and illustrator friend Ditte Winkelman, I purchased a ticket to Berlin. Those of you who receive my frantic e-mails already know that I’m very hopeful about this move. Maybe one day…

Rotterdam: remnants of New Year’s partying

See-through with black rim...slut of the umbrella world. No wonder she got abused and ran over. Still looks hot though...

You’ve probably heard that New Year’s parties are all about wild times. You know, grab your buddies, take an umbrella out and get fucking plastered. Yeehaw! Wanna party even harder?? Let the hellish weather of your cozy riverside hometown devour…

making sense of 2012

Making sense of 2012.

I now realize that the vitamin I just took was intended to be dissolved in liquid prior to consumption. I was wondering why 1) it tasted so awful when vitamins are generally innocuous; 2) my mouth started foaming as I…