Dairy Queen, 434 East Wooster Street, Bowling Green, OH (419) 352-8042 ‎

Taken from Google Street View:

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=de&q=bowling+green+oh+317+1/2+north+main&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=317+N+Main+St,+Bowling+Green,+OH+43402&ei=YdUyTaOfC4qugQePxZTSCw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CBoQ8gEwAA&iwloc=undefined

"Best Dairy Queen ever. This is a family owned place and it really shows ..." (quote from a user review at Google)

Some things never change, it seems.

This was one of wemo's favorite hang-outs way back in the early 1980s … and boy, did he love to count the carriages of those endless freight trains on the tracks! –– What an eager student.

For a better 2011

Went over my photo archive from last year, and it looks slightly barren, just 1177 photographs, not even a hundred per month? Not the wemo we used to know. And long, long intermissions on the blog. Just too much work on the job, and hardly any restful early mornings driving with time for a sunrise to be shot and enjoyed.

So, here's to a better 2011!

Thanks to a few friends who got worried and helped me get off that workaholic nightmare.

Soundtrack: Schubert, String quintet c-major, D 956, currently on Radio Ö1 with Acies Quartet and David Geringas.

Why?

"Woher kommen wir? Wohin gehen wir? Und wo geht's hier zum Bahnhof?"

Schubert could not have answered the last of those three basic questions; there were no train stations around in his lifetime. And he did not answer a lot of questions in words anyway, it is his music that is about life and death, creation and destruction, about dancing when things seem to be petrified. So it seems there is a direction home somewhere.

Hello to Hanns Otte and his current blog series "Man soll den Tag nicht vor dem Abend loben......" from Vienna and Teheran; and hello to all good-willing people who think that tolerance and constitutional rights are a higher value than "clipping other people's minarets, because we don't like to have those dark-skinned muslims in our tidy country" – as the Swiss just did; and a lot of my fellow Austrians found this a great and respectable decision.

A second soundtrack is to be credited: a blackbird "singing in the dead of night"; hello there!

"Bring on the night"

Must have been way back in the 1980s, when pop star Sting tried to bring some street credibility into his formerly slick New Wave star existence. Yet it was just Black Romanticism, maybe "Gothic" with a capital "G". Did he know of different lives back then, did he know what 'night' was like for an undercast who just did not have a chance to realize how 'cool' darkness and night 'really' were?

Austria seems like a peaceful, civilized place; yet, 'way back' in the late 1960s it was not so hard to end up in a jail (for some 'criminal' offence), in darkness with nothing but bread and water. Big fun, eh?!

Yours truly included, most people haver never experienced this total bulls*** way of life.

Who is there to judge how anyone ended up messing up his life like this?

Soundtrack: Don't let it bring you down, "a song that is guaranteed to bring you right down".

CSNY, Four Way Street live. Signed with the deepest respect for Neil Young as an artist and a loving, political human being. wemo

Have a look at the motion picture Déja Vu!

Thanks to SUNDANCE '08 independent film festival for that great trailer on Youtube.

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The only way is up?