December 2008
Clearly Swedish design prowess...
…does not extend to Christmas decorations.
This display, which we’ve creatively dubbed ‘The Big Lamp’, has been floating around Malmö for the last couple holiday seasons. This year it’s parked on Lillatorg and that’s my my brother standing in front of it for scale.
I’m sure The Big Lamp is meant to symbolize something deeply meaningful, but I have no...
My new favorite online game
You knew it was coming:
Play Sock and Awe!
Because Dubya needs another pair of loafers!
(And FYI: it’s harder than it looks.)
Obama's "A Game" decision to take the "A Train" to...
Whistlestop trip to inauguration revives a tradition
It is President-elect Barack Obama’s latest nod to history and his political hero Abraham Lincoln: His inaugural committee announced yesterday that he will arrive by train in the nation’s capital for his historic inauguration.
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Besides the evocation of history, the journey will allow many more Americans to see Obama, either...
WatchJon Stewart 2016!
An unexpected consequence of darkness
We are now well and truly in the throes of the southern Sweden winter, which means very limited daylight…and what sun you do get see is usually filtered through very thick, gray clouds. Swedes have some pretty creative ways of dealing with the extended darkness. Tonight I walked home from Malmö’s Central Station behind a guy who had draped his messenger bag with traditional white...
Running the Christmas shopping gauntlet
Dr. Darling and I were lounging around in our pajamas this morning talking about my brother’s upcoming Christmas visit, when I happened to glance at a calendar and realized we had just two weekends* left to get our holiday shopping done.
So we decided to head out and brave the crowds, despite having only a vague idea of what we wanted to buy. Remarkably, the last-minute-ness of the...
Ex-pat American stash
I’m about 85 percent unpacked from my Thanksgiving trip to the good ol’ US of A, and that’s WAY ahead of my normal schedule. Once the dirty clothes are extracted, I tend to unload everything else ‘as needed’, which means my suitcases can lay around partially empty/full (depending on your perspective) for weeks after a big trip. To be honest, I don’t know why Dr....
