Non-photo scans

These are scans of physical objects I collected during the tour - ticket stubs, show flyers and the like.

Daypass stub, Berlin. Most cities in Germany will sell a pass good for all S-Bahn, U-Bahn, tram and bus service for 24 hours. Don't scrimp - get yourself one of these passes and never worry again about those maddening Fahrkarten (farecard) machines.

Genuine European Union earplugs. I received these on the plane.

While in Frankfurt, I fell in love with a local writer named Etta Streicher. The next night at the Frankfurt poetry slam, this note was slipped to me as Etta was on stage looking very sexy and whispering the word "ficken" repeatedly out to the audience. The note basically says that "ficken" in English is "fuck." Ah, Etta. Sigh.

A flyer I received for a transsexual punk-rock fair later in the month. Germans love saying the English word 'fuick' out loud, by the way.

Yes, Germans do have a sense of humor. Yes, it is a rather black one.

The toy inside my Kinder egg - a popular candy in Germany that consists of a chocolate egg and a prize inside it.

Hungarian matches, with French instructions, being sold in Germany and used by an American. Viva la globalism.

Receipt for payment from my Jazzkeller show in Frankfurt.

My boarding pass for the flight home.

My railpass, a crumpled-up mess by the end of the tour.

"Tabloid porn" - the same size as American tabloids, the same price, printed on the same cheap paper, but with T&A shots instead of celebrity gossip and UFO sightings. These are extremely popular in Germany; a good dozen titles are published on a weekly basis there.

A five-euro Telefonkarte (phonecard). Learn how to use these - in over half the payphones in Germany, you can stick these in a slot like a debit card instead of fumbling around with coins. Be warned - calling a cellphone from a payphone during the day costs you a whopping one euro per minute.