I’ve loved axes since I was a boy, and they keep me sane and happy and motivated. America is where most axe innovation took place, so I decided to read up on it. I don’t think there’s a real scholarly tradition about crafts and tools in the US, because if there was, you would be …
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Flabby people, canals and cold sandwiches.
This summer I took my little sister to the Netherlands to look for student housing. After an arduous boarding process at Sofia airport, our budget airline took us to Eindhoven in about three hours. The city was clean and had a hi-tech vibe. Right outside the airport is a a fountain which spurts out beautiful …
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Death and dying
When you fall asleep you get drowsier, drowsier, and then you go to sleep, but you do not remember the precise moment you fell asleep. So why should it be different with death and dying? The moment you die, the person who can experience the death is gone. So you do not live to experience …
Бог Один
Один e по-мистичен от Зевс, по-добре изучен от Перун и по-малко ме подсеща за разни националистически организации от Тангра. Стори ми се като прекрасен избор за един малък пост. Именно той вади окото си и го оставя в кладенеца на Мимир, за да може да отпие от водата на мъдростта. И се провесва от ясена …
Westerners with Soviet sympathies and nostalgia
Can renounce their citizenship and go live in China. eBay is flooded with Soviet memorabilia. I’m not sure why people buy the crap, but I admit, I too have tried to use the tag „Soviet“ as a selling point. I am not proud. But I’m broke and I’m trying to find out what sells. If …
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Women are not as attractive as they should be
You’ve probably seen pictures of your grandmother. Someone tells you she was beautiful and you take out an album to see what she looked like. Have you ever been pleasantly surprised? Women wore ugly dresses, could eat whatever they wanted, and judging from Mary, could look however they wanted. This did not deter men from …
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Thank you Sarah C.
For restoring the blog I deleted in a state of I don’t know what exactly.
Hadzhi Dimitar by Hristo Botev
This is my own translation. Notes at the end of the poem. Hadzhi Dimitar He is alive! There on the Balkan, groaning and blood-soaked he lies, a hero with a deep wound in his chest, a hero who is in youth’s prime. By one side he’s strewn a rifle, by another a sabre, shattered in …
My meditation is over
I had some kind of shit introduction to this article, but I was browsing the blog and deleted it. Good riddance. Last year I read a little manuscript written by a great samurai named Miyamoto Musashi. I don’t know if he was great, but he was a killer of the highest order. Combat to him …
Vocation or whatever it’s called.
Sometimes I look at how good someone is at something and it makes me emotional. Not because of their skills, because those are just a side effect of doing what they love. These people embody their work. Their flair, their skills, every bit of that is a continuation of their being. Take the talons away …
I brought a sword 