On my mind

Of course, after I thought of happy stuff to list, more came to mind. And staying in last night, my mind was abuzz. I have a new column on my side-bar called 'Weltenschaung' which is supposed to list the stuff I'm thinking about. But it changes so often. How can I keep up? So these are part of my Weltenschaung today ::

• Mayor Bloomberg saying the secret weapon in the war on terror is 'courage';
• The lyric 'the scene ends badly as you might imagine, in a cavalcade of anger and fear' from the The Mountain Goats;
• Getting a text from a girl in my building saying I could swap my 4th floor apartment for hers on the 13th floor;
• The French neighbourhood in Seoul, where 539 French people live and streets sign are in French and named after places like 'Montmartre';
• The French guy who lived in this suburb and last week found two dead babies in his freezer - the babies are his;
• Complete absence of irony in Korea;
• Rodeo Street in Apgujeong as evidence of the complete lack of irony;
• The Lithuanian government has declared a state of emergency in the agricultural sector due to a severe drought;
• Happy to have Ethan back;
• Russia, Russian, Ukraine, Ukrainian;
• More grisly news from Korea - an army conscript shoots two high-ranking officers before attempting suicide - the father of one of the dead told the media: 'Right before he went into the Army we went to the public bath together and I washed him from head to foot.'

*Credit where credit is due :: I stole the Weltenschaung idea from Toby's Zeitgeist idea. Ok.