it’s so over..

26Oct07

Well, I did it, put up some last posters, wandered around town, listened to some Nick Drake, felt a bit melancholic (and really full after a ridiculously large schnitzel)and went to bed. For a while, before I woke from nightmares about really long mullets…

And as I lay there I began to think again about [...]

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Zwillingsbruder

25Oct07

Ok, had a nap and back on some kind of form. Had a few thoughts about yesterday. Spent a while handing out flyers of me, another in a growing list of strange experiences. Flyering is never the best job at the best of times. Not a great success rate. In order to get anyone to [...]

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Overt cooperation

25Oct07

Got to jkeep this short. was up all night backing text and photos for the vitrine at the stadthaus. not really think straight and this post is taking forever to write. All went ok today, was an official opening of a glass panel commemorating the oxford bonn link. Lots of dignataries smiling at each other [...]

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Don’t just do something, sit there!

23Oct07

Apparently that’s a zen joke. I read it in my book of the mo (zadie smith, the autograph man, v funny). I think its kind of relevant to my day to day. It wasn’t entirely uneventful, but after yesterdays adrenaline fuelled afternoon, I decided to revert to covert strategies again.
The morning was quite funny, I [...]

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I guess it had to happen…

22Oct07

Well, things have been moving along. Firstly, just as I was finishing the post this morning I got another call. Again, I had to do best in my rudimentary deutsch. I was flailing away, had just got to the bit where I say “I’m from Oxford, etc” when she interrupted me and said “Ja, und [...]

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A phonecall this morning..

22Oct07

Where to start? Seems like a lot has happened.. Well, last night, after a bowl of lentil soup (chopped parsley on the top-good sign) at my favourite imbiss so far (Moroccan, big owner, v cool), I waded through the piles of rubbish on the pavement and went out to stick my image and phone number [...]

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Covert operations

21Oct07

Well after a rainy start to the day (well, most of the day in fact) I decided to step things up a bit. From the past day and a half of observation it has become clear that my double is not going to be found easily. I’m tempted to talk of him/her as prey, [...]

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Oxford is the afterbirth of Bonn

20Oct07

Well, day one on the job. The good news is that Bonn is really quite a cool city. I was expecting far worse. It is also significantly grander than Oxford, with some serious museums, churches and other grand buildings. Well, it was the capital I suppose. It’s just that most people I had spoken to [...]

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Constructing my story

20Oct07

Just to back track a bit. I arrived at the station, put my bag in a left luggage locker, wondered town, found a hotel, took a small room in the attack and set to work. I had printed 50 photos with passport sized images of my face on. I bought a new pair of sharp [...]

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Sind Sie Mein Doppelganger

19Oct07

This is the photo I will be using. Its passport sized and on the back I have printed ‘Do You look like me?’ (Sehen Sie wie Ich aus?). Hope the German is right. I was going to write Sind Sie Mein Doppelganger? on the back but thought that it had a slight ‘lonely hearts column’ [...]

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