have landed somewhat after the Thursday-to-Sunday haul of the Gothenburg fair, which is the largest book fair in the region. To quote my favorite magazine, it was "Large large large large large". I suspect I said the same thing last year ( Read more... )

Watched Army of darkness with an old friend Saturday, and couldn't help noticing the uncanny resemblance between the battle between Arthur's knights and the army of darkness, and the battle of Helm's deep. There was the huge castle (ok, on a plain, but still, the dark guys didn't seem to bother attacking any other way than full-front anyway), and ( Read more... )

Got a cold coming up *whines*, and I'm such a man about it. The slightest hint of soreness in my throat and I'm all "Oh, I'm dying, I can't move a muscle today, I needs slaves. Slaves I says!"
Luckily (for everyone I guess), L is just the same, and being sicker than I am (both sore throat and runny nose) she made my protective-mode kick in instead ( Read more... )

So finally everything clicked, and me and L were able to get out of town just in time to miss the entire city-festival-thingy (which consists, mostly, of people coming in from the countryside, getting drunk and urinating on our streets. Ok, maybe not that bad, but almost). Caught the train to Gothenburg and then travelled on to Orust, this big ( Read more... )

Was scheduled to work Saturday, the usual 16 hour-haul. This is really no problem, I've been doing it for years now, and even two shifts in a row is ok, as long as I'm prepared for it. Only this time, somewhere around midnight on Saturday, we discover that my client thinks I'm working Sunday too ( Read more... )

Well, I don't seem to be writing much these days, now do I? This is mainly, I think, due to me working a lot. On that damn bike I'm fixing (no, not done yet), on my collection of short stories (almost done), the book I'm editing (coming along nicely) and of course The Job (the one I'm actually getting paid for ( Read more... )

Have one of those low-intensive colds again, with just enough sore throat and hints of a temperature to make me weary of doing anything, but not enough to keep me sleeping the days away. Also L went on tour with the anthology today (ok, not so much of a tour as going to one town and doing a bunch of reading there and then going home again) and isn' ( Read more... )

So, as some of you might know, and most of you don't, L has been attending one of those creative-writing-schools this year. Anyway, they've finally put together their anthology, the book itself is on it's way, and there's a release-party on Tuesday.

Yep, live poetry, music n' stuff happening at Panora, in Malmo, on the 17:th of may, from 17 to 01 ( Read more... )

Last time on Mudskipper: Someone stole my bike. After much woe and lament, I managed to move on, and retrieve my other, crappy bike from the basement.
Yesterday I begun dismantling the old piece of rust. It's in my kitchen, and its big and powerful and dirty, and I felt like such a man when I picked out wrenches and attacked rusty blots... I am so ( Read more... )

Someone stole my bike. My crappy fifteen-year-old wonderful bike. Bastards :(