Heh, it seems the Finnish people do have a sense of humour about the thing after all, since the monster rock band Lordi was chosen to represent Finland in this year's Eurovision song contest with their song "Hard Rock Hallelujah" :D.
In other news, I'm almost finished with Megan Whalen Turner's The King of Attolia and will probably rave more about it tomorrow. At the moment I'll just say that I love it!