I went to a screening of Withnail and I at the Cinematheque in Oslo last night. I know I keep saying I'll stop going to screenings of films I own on DVD, but this was subtitled and there are parts of the film where the mumbling/accents/sound design makes the dialogue incomprehensible to me ( Read more... )

Drawing will never be anything other than a sometimes hobby for me, so I know I'll never be churning out professional-looking things -- but even if I'm never 100% happy with anything I draw, I usually like some detail in it and feel proud about my improvement (I wish I could be as laissez-faire about my writing, but that's for another day ( Read more... )

There’s that question, ”Are you Marvel or DC?” Usually I don’t give it much thought - I like good comics, no matter which publisher - but these last years, as I’ve started reading more superhero comics, I’ve realized I gravitate more towards DC. I like the universe. I like the optimism of Metropolis and the hopelessness of Gotham. I like the ( Read more... )

Right, so there's this awful "discussion" that keeps popping up on my Tumblr dash, started by a lady posting a picture of herself holding a razor saying "you see this? it’s called a razor. if you’re a girl, USE IT." and more about how women who don't shave are gross feminazis etc., etc., and as of now it has 2342 notes, most of which seems to be ( Read more... )

Another day, another bunch of job applications sent off. That paranoid moment when you fear that employers disregard your application because you've got an unusual name and they might think you're some dirty furriner. I mean, that might not be the issue with me at all - I've got a pretty "safe" Germanic and English name anyway. I still take care to ( Read more... )

So you've got a bit of an obsessive personality ( Read more... )

Today I woke up with the most depressing notion in my head.

( Mankind is egotistical and stupid and I'm not sure if we'll ever change )

Thanks once again for nothing, immune system! I don't know what I've come down with this time but my lymph nodes are taking one hell of a beating. That would be terrific, wouldn't it, returning home for a week to catch the final lectures in English 101, and then get sick and miss them. I'm channeling a lot of Spock in The Devil in the Dark right ( Read more... )

So I was at my local comic shop yesterday looking for something cheap to quell my illin' (but somehow they didn't have any of the five titles I was planning on picking up some day so in a moment of insanity and/or frustration I bought one of those super cheap Showcase collections of, er, Booster Gold. Booster Gold of all things!) when I looked over ( Read more... )

While the election is trucking on in the US the latest big thing to hit Norwegian politics is yet another fur farm scandal (warning for unpleasant images). Pictures and videos of the atrocious conditions in Norwegian fur farms have surfaced and people are understandably upset. The Food Safety Authority's (which I've mentioned before is the ( Read more... )