By demagoguery I mean demagoguery

After having just given a paper at a conference I enjoy the freedom of having my evenings off. I keep thinking I should be doing something and then I realise that, no, I don’t have to do anything but watch House M.D. and episode after episode of it. And then I did a little YouTube search [...]

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In Tears. Giuseppe Verdi beaten to death by unsubtle drummer

I just came upon a very, very funny youtube clip. Funny because it’s sad. Oh, so very sad and phoney.
One of my favourite singers, mezzo soprano Tuva Semmingsen, seems to have been in some dire economic need or possibly just out of her freakin’ mind. She actually joined the Danish version of Dancing with the [...]

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Bad taste… for blood

I’m all about vampires at the moment having read the Twilight books and chewing away at the series True Blood. Two very different things – the former I’m a bit cringy to admit having completely swallowed up to a point where addiction might be the appropriate word and hey these books are so terribly adolescent [...]

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Lingonberries and Siegfried-motives in Astrid Lindgren’s Emil from Lönneberga. Photo of the Week #53

In the marketplace of Lund, Sweden you can buy all sorts of wonderful local produce. At the moment the chanterelles and lingonberries would be my primary choice. Look at those masses of lingonberries:

This seems to be one of the essentially Swedish foods. They cook them to marmalade and eat it with meatballs and mashed potatoes [...]

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English Country Houses. Part 2. Haddon Hall

Next up: Haddon Hall. Located a short drive from Chatsworth my friend and I went there on the same day after having had that memorable afternoon tea.
Haddon Hall was a favourite of mine even before I visited it since it happens to portray Thornfield Manor in the best adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, the [...]

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Ballad

Some months ago I happened on a TV show with the Danish singer-songwriter Niels Hausgaard. A hopelessly left wing man who never lets down the small people of society. There was one song that stayed with me and which even made my sister sit down to listen. It’s written in a ballad style very much [...]

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The meteor has landed. Grand opening of Denmark’s new concert hall

On Saturday night Koncerthuset, the Concert Hall of the Danish broadcasting company, Danmarks Radio, had its grand opening. At last! The concert hall has been delayed for months and months and ended up costing much more than any one had imagined (or perhaps some had, but anyways…) and in the end making it the universally [...]

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Studio Katze!

Will it be raining cats and dogs? Apparently only cats in the South-Western part of Germany. 
 

 
I think this is cool for several reasons.
1. Lupin-the cat’s tail circling like a shark fin trying to turn everyone’s attention to it’s presence. 
2. The calm reaction of the host Jörg Kachelmann as he picks up [...]

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They continue! More thanks from the Swedish Television

I have previously reported on the gentleness of the Swedish National Television and how they thank those who pay their television license fee (instead of harassing those who don’t). And lo and behold – they continue their politenesses:
 

 
The old man at the end says: “You almost have tears in your eyes”. [...]

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Photo of the Week #9

Even though Paris is probably the most calm and boring place to be during an American election I did get to see Obama (O-bama – short O, short As – French style). This was the wonderful, wonderful view from my Parisian attick early in the dark Novembers morning on the 5th.
 

 
*sigh of relief*
 
/anna

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