As a teenager growing-up in Holland, I used to watch numerous American TV shows. The one that I really liked was Miami Vice starring Don Johnson. At this time in Holland there were only two government television channels, and they didn’t commence until 3pm in the afternoon and ended slightly passed 11pm. Another one I really liked was Magnum, P.I. starring Tom Selleck. And though Magnum, P.I. was featured only once a week, it provided me with enough inspiration to enter the world of palm trees, white beaches, beautiful women and a red Ferrari. But if not a red Ferrari, I would have gladly settled for the convertible Rolls-Royce Corniche as occasionally featured in my other favorite TV show, Hart to Hart , starring Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers. For me, Don Johnson, Tom Selleck, and Robert Wagner as portrayed on television were the ideal men living in the ideal world. So in 1983, after graduating from high school in Holland, I stepped aboard a KLM Boeing 747 to the USA. It was a o
A blog by Theo Bruinsma about memoirs and meditations: Brishon driving a Citroën SM in San Francisco; Christine disappearing behind the curtains of The Stark Club in Dallas; Angelique meeting me at the train station in Brunnik via Utrecht; Franeker, Friesland. And Dutch politics featuring Thierry Baudet, Geert Wilders, Pim Fortuyn and the shady Beatrix Dutch monarchy. "The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project" -- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, De Eeuwige Bron