Thomas Mertz

Essentially eternally 12 years old

Thomas

  • For Christmas Liv gifted me a calendar. This particular one was a collection of daily strips from Ekstra Bladet, a publication I would usually avoid at any cost. But, y’know, it was a gift from a dear friend and so it has a space on my desk. Up until now, I’ve been occasionally pulling strips off…

  • An unexpected benefit from the dental trip to Stettin is that down the street from our hotel is the world oldest cinema. It opened in 1909 under the name Helios, at a time when Stettin was in Germany. And here 107 years later it’s still going. My inner filmbuff is unreasonably excited.

  • The Lucas Line

    Yesterday I finally went to see ‘Interstellar‘ and damn – what a mess of a movie (but that’s a post for another day). I posted a quick thing on Facebook and said it seemed like Nolan had finally crossed The Lucas Line. Then someone asked “What’s the Lucas Line?”. The Lucas Line is a small…