Anders & Måns solve the theodicy problem. So. Much Love ( Read more... )

It occurred to me that certain scenes from Swedish comedy show "Fråga Anders & Måns" really fitted well with Heroes. The first one - the pic used for this post - is from the following scene. Anders & Måns have sorted out why sports pages are pinks when mostly guys read the sports pages. After that (from memory):

Måns: Also, why is skin pink when ( Read more... )

Ugh. Staying at work not-working because there's a teacher party at the medieval museum tonight has its obvious advantage: I don't have to spend an extra two hours commuting home and then back to Malmö again. But there are also downsides: people keep coming into the library even though it's closed, which means I don't get enough peace to read, much ( Read more... )

Starting off with a couple of quick things: today's (and most of the week's) brain-melting YouTube vid is the song that doesn't end with Lamb Chop. I have a thing for eternal songs. Once, as a kid, I walked around the kitchen table singing 250 verses of "en elefant promenerade". (For those of you who aren't Swedish, the lyrics in translation of ( Read more... )

Watched more Anders & Måns yesterday, on my TV this time. I really don't watch much TV, considering the number of TV shows I watch.

Laughed myself silly at Måns' improvements of the human body ("I don't want to say I'm smarter than God, but...") especially his view on periods: "'Let's flush out the egg with blood! We don't have any use for blood ( Read more... )

Lovely Nemi the other day, that really struck me as a European.

Guy: Americans are incredibly ignorant of the world around them. "Is Norway the capital of Sweden?" they ask. "Do you live in igloos? Are there polar bears walking around on the streets ( Read more... )