GIP, more Psych, and quite a bit on Swedish humour
There's no Dulé Hill community on Livejournal? Are you kidding me? Well, I guess I'll have to remedy that. Have already started downloading pics for a potential layout.
Meanwhile, I still don't have any ideas for a Gus-only icon, but at least I've made myself a slashy one - the pic and my vague notions of a potential fic made the caption rather obvious. (Yes, I have a bunny. Don't hold your horses - I still have to finish the Nathan fic first.)
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Speaking of comedy duos, I'm (re-)reading the book Hasse & Tage och deras Svenska Ord about Swedish comedians Hasse Alfredsson and Tage Danielsson. I simply love the 1963 annual report of their corporation Svenska Ord (Swedish words):
Corporation Swedish Words' annual report, by Tage Danielsson
I had a lot of fun last year. We travelled to Göteborg and Malmö, and this summer we went to Gröna Lund* and I got to eat a waffle. And one day we went to the Television and were allowed into the big new radio house and there they had coffee in a wagon that it poured from. Television is really important.
We have fun in our cabin too, where we make up fires and cozy stuff and think of things to do when we grow up. Then we're going to be terribly rich says uncle Hasse, so that we can hire Gustaf Hjort af Ornäs.**
Yes, that's what we did last year.
I think it's all real fun and the best fun of all I think is when one is given full and grateful freedom from liability.
Love and best wishes from all of us.
Tage Danielsson, CEO.
*Gröna Lund is an amusement park in Stockholm where Hasse & Tage had a show running in 1963.
** Gustaf Hiort af Ornäs was a Swedish actor with a great body of work in the 30s-50s.
Also great fun is the tale of how Hasse went on a world tour with Povel Ramel and wired home to their Swedish agents from the South Seas: "Ramel gone. Probably eaten. Send another."
For those interested in seeing some stuff from their shows, Tage sings Depressiva tankar kan ibland kompenseras med kaffe och bullar. If you'd rather have something in English there's Gals & Pals with Why do you bother me? a song with a similar theme, written by H&T. (The song itself starts about 3 minutes in, before that, Tage and someone I think might be Hatte Furuhagen - it's definitely not Hasse Alfredsson - are reenacting the Napoleon wars with a set dinner table. I don't think the scene is as good as the song, but YMMV.)
Meanwhile, I still don't have any ideas for a Gus-only icon, but at least I've made myself a slashy one - the pic and my vague notions of a potential fic made the caption rather obvious. (Yes, I have a bunny. Don't hold your horses - I still have to finish the Nathan fic first.)
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Speaking of comedy duos, I'm (re-)reading the book Hasse & Tage och deras Svenska Ord about Swedish comedians Hasse Alfredsson and Tage Danielsson. I simply love the 1963 annual report of their corporation Svenska Ord (Swedish words):
Corporation Swedish Words' annual report, by Tage Danielsson
I had a lot of fun last year. We travelled to Göteborg and Malmö, and this summer we went to Gröna Lund* and I got to eat a waffle. And one day we went to the Television and were allowed into the big new radio house and there they had coffee in a wagon that it poured from. Television is really important.
We have fun in our cabin too, where we make up fires and cozy stuff and think of things to do when we grow up. Then we're going to be terribly rich says uncle Hasse, so that we can hire Gustaf Hjort af Ornäs.**
Yes, that's what we did last year.
I think it's all real fun and the best fun of all I think is when one is given full and grateful freedom from liability.
Love and best wishes from all of us.
Tage Danielsson, CEO.
*Gröna Lund is an amusement park in Stockholm where Hasse & Tage had a show running in 1963.
** Gustaf Hiort af Ornäs was a Swedish actor with a great body of work in the 30s-50s.
Also great fun is the tale of how Hasse went on a world tour with Povel Ramel and wired home to their Swedish agents from the South Seas: "Ramel gone. Probably eaten. Send another."
For those interested in seeing some stuff from their shows, Tage sings Depressiva tankar kan ibland kompenseras med kaffe och bullar. If you'd rather have something in English there's Gals & Pals with Why do you bother me? a song with a similar theme, written by H&T. (The song itself starts about 3 minutes in, before that, Tage and someone I think might be Hatte Furuhagen - it's definitely not Hasse Alfredsson - are reenacting the Napoleon wars with a set dinner table. I don't think the scene is as good as the song, but YMMV.)