Giant waterslide

I just thought this might be a good way to start the day…
 

 
I love the other guys’ enthusiasm!
 
/anna

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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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Puss takes her water old, not stirred. Photos of the Week #57

At the moment I seem to be spending most of my time at my desk at home and at my desk at work – having a lot to do on the job and with a paper I’m going to give next week. So Puss and I are sort of seeing a lot of each other, [...]

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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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Sacrificium. New album from la Bartoli

I don’t know how this has escaped my attention but Cecilia Bartoli will be releasing a new album this coming October. And it sounds great. Only… it looks a bit strange. Cecilia…in a male body?? Weird. Ok, castratos are weird – did you have to make it even weirder? And… “Evviva il coltellino”? As in [...]

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Look at that Cheshire Cat!

Look, look the trailer for Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is here!

Looks just as creepy as it should…What I’m looking most forward to is of course the cat:

It even has the voice of Stephen Fry and look at the way it blinks in the trailer. Yay and yay! Oh and Alan [...]

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Adorable! Cecilia Bartoli in Händel’s Semele

My favourite singer in one of my favourite arias: from Händel’s Semele the aria Myself I shall adore. The earthling Semele has become the lover of Jupiter and now she imagines how the crown of Juno would suit her… Juno being the wife of Jupiter aaand the lady in black in this video luring Semele [...]

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The Groke. Moomin Winter Horror

Winter is clearly leaving so it’s a last chance for winterly topics. Such as the midwinter horrors of the Moomin stories by Finnish author Tove Jansson. I think many children feel that the Moomin books can be quite discomforting. I’ve heard my friends tell how scared they were and I understand why when you consider [...]

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