Kategoriarkiv: Swedish ”culture”
Already July?
It rushes by so very fast, the Swedish summer. Already now in July I can feel a lurking anxiety that soon it will be all over with all the greenery, the flowers and bright light nights for a coming darkness … Fortsätt läsa
Man bör / One should (poetry crumbs 3)
One should (in the Swedish eye) one should be a good citizen with all what that entails: one should read books and take a walk at least half an hour every day, one should eat the right kind … Fortsätt läsa
”Irresponsible”? (Oansvarig”?)
”Irresponsible” is what the head of state, ministers, managers, your parents, your teachers, yes sometimes even the media, call you when you point out and refuse to accept shortcomings, misconducts or abuse of power or wrong decisions. ”Irresponsible” is the … Fortsätt läsa
The wonderful ”Swedish Summer”!
Translated from Swedish, the Swedish text below The wonderful “Swedish summer” is now here in the Mother Swea Country (the season without which we Swedes would fade away in a constant dark resting hibernate) and the lawnmowers constant thunder … Fortsätt läsa
En ensam plats blir ensammare
This post is only in Swedish as it is about a newly published book which is only available in Swedish (so far) and the hullabaloo a scandlous review in a tabloid caused on many Swedish culture pages. I år … Fortsätt läsa
Sol och vår (Love-seeking May)
It is May, sun and rain alternating, hot and cold days. The birches stand in their youthful, sweetest and most beautiful greenery. Fruit trees bloom and spread their seeds in the wind. You start the day with an allergy … Fortsätt läsa
Rescue me!
In Africa and US people put a trust in God. In Sweden we put our faith in healthy food and state-run welfare funded by taxes. We believe people are rational and act sensibly. We all have to live captured … Fortsätt läsa
How does a horse want it?
This post is alternately in Swedish and English, but I hope the reading will work for you! Jag tänker fortfarande ibland på hästen Otto – vad hände med honom? Har han äntligen kommit till ro och fått ett hem och … Fortsätt läsa
Pee in my tea (an ordinary day in the middle of the week)
I browsed this morning through a blog written for about 3 – 4 year back in time to last year, a woman writing about getting a treatment of breast cancer. It was with long … Fortsätt läsa
Nu ska jag läsa Knausgård, tamigfan!
Sorry, only in Swedish this time, it’s my reflections on a Swedish debate article. Kom idag att läsa en kulturartikel i GP från 2:a juli i år skriven av AmericaVera-Zavala: ”Att … Fortsätt läsa
I may have cancer but at least I’m not a horse called Otto
texten omstruktured 24 juli 2020 I may have cancer but I am not born and not living in Yemen. I may have cancer and I certainly have arthritis but I’m not a horse called Otto, sold and returned, over … Fortsätt läsa
Midsummer Dreams in the freezer
Lonely men All these lonely men, where do they all come from? And to what will they go with all their dreams, kept strictly secret in their hearts, and at their backs and behind harsh smiles? … Fortsätt läsa
Harsh wind, some reflections
The rain ended and the summer heat came but the harsh wind has stayed. And it is hard-bitten merciless. My balcony plants looks like terrified puppies. My mother heart aches for little ones. I’m worn out from … Fortsätt läsa
Traumas that will remain in their souls
Andreas Bardell Aftonbladet June 6, 2020 ”Fårorna i ansiktet lägger sig djupa och röda. Märken som knappt hinner försvinna, innan de är tillbaka igen. I tre månader har Sverige kämpat mot coronaviruset. Och i frontlinjen står vårdpersonalen. För dem är … Fortsätt läsa
A poor man’s longing for love and a woman
Dan Andersson “Jag väntar vid min mila”. Translated to English by me (note, for private use only on this blog, not to pass on in other contexts). I’m waiting at my charcoal pile I’m waiting at my wood fire while … Fortsätt läsa
The potential slayers / dräparna
To take part in a mass demonstration during a pandemic is like completely drunk get in a car and drive off, regardless of whether one can kill or injure someone through this lack of judgment. Whoever does such is a … Fortsätt läsa
Neither for nor against (The Swedish approach)
In English below I Jag är inte med dig, jag är inte mot dig jag är mittemellan dig och alla, intryckt nedtryckt under din höjda arm, näsan begravd i din armhåla, du stinker: byt deodorant! Eller: håll avståndet. II Sluta … Fortsätt läsa
The promised land of the Cinnamon Bun
Cinnamon buns are ”public domains”, anyone everywhere can copy them, to eat and enjoy. But everything written online, even on a blog, is copyrighted. You cannot copy my writing and not take all or part of my written material as … Fortsätt läsa
You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet!
Fy fan för äldreboenden, ättestupa och hurtig underhållning med Evert Taube! Jag skulle hellre äta råttgift än att bo där! Den sen decennier bortgångne och mytologiserade trubaduren Taube är sannerligen ingen … Fortsätt läsa
Ramadan in the Nordic light is a tricky story
In English below Ramadan i Sverige är en kinkig historia, vilken tur att den infaller under våren detta år, då kan man be 20.30 och äta fort som (…) för att sedan slumra halvannan timme, äta och be igen. Så … Fortsätt läsa
Moses Tegnell med sin stafettpinne leder svenska folket genom Corona-pestens ökenlandskap
Moses Tegnell with his baton leads the Swedish people through the desert landscape of the Corona plague De rör sig ur dunkla dis, de sågs aldrig komma I fängelser utan dörrar, tror vi att vi ska överleva… De dirigerar förlusterna … Fortsätt läsa
Chicken manure to prevent students crowding at Walpurgis Night
Not only does this Corona virus cause restricting effects on our free physical mobility, some people also bring us funny and creative solutions to solve the practical problems of living with this virus restrictions. The municipal mayor of Lund (Sweden) … Fortsätt läsa
Corona apartheid
The Corona strategy has created apartheid in Sweden of the elderly instead of a fair and equal lockdown of the whole society. After the Easter weekend, the voluntary restrictions no longer work among common people, some just going wildly at … Fortsätt läsa
Lady Corona: heaven can wait, we old don’t want to die!
”I wanted to live,” said a 92 years old Louise in a report on Swedish TV news and in an interview in the Swedish tabloid Expressen. She has survived both covid-19 and intensive care and has now been discharged from … Fortsätt läsa
One hot day in April I went shopping…
It’s bloody hot today! It’s only April, but still a summer heat! Well, I expected it to be hot when I dressed to go out to shop – but like a normal spring heat! … Fortsätt läsa
Joy?
Quoting the Swedish writer Theodor Kallifatides on Twitter 13 april ”Jag önskar att jag någon gång i livet fick gå ut ur huset med samma entusiasm, glädje och förväntan som min dotters två mopsar.” In translation: ”I wish that at … Fortsätt läsa
Medelklassens hastiga uppvaknande (What is ”normal” and to whom?)
Read this post in English here below Jag läser om morgonen en krönika i en morgontidning om att vi aldrig ”efter detta” (pandemin!) kan gå tillbaka till det ”normala”. Det vill säga förgifta jorden. Äga förmågan att uppleva vad som … Fortsätt läsa
ἄσυλον
The right of asylum (sometimes called right of political asylum, from the Ancient Greek word ἄσυλον) Quote from en.wikipedia Sweden’s politicians and the EU: We protect the right of asylum, we only make it impossible for people to come to … Fortsätt läsa
Excuse me!
Mr Johansson tell Swedish media “We consider that the risk of a new refugee crisis like 2015 is considerably less this year. The situation in the EU and Sweden looks different. Sweden has different legislation and it is harder for … Fortsätt läsa
Elderly balance (single-leg stance)
When 18 people read my texts I exist. Otherwise it is not much with that, unless I not wake up in the night with cramps in one lower leg, then I surely know I’m alive. I hear on the TV … Fortsätt läsa
The current historylessness (Dysterkvistar)
Here my bumpy thighs and unnoticed life which still is in progress, yet declining. All I have ever accomplished is aging, now I’m not 30 and depressed anymore, but read the literary reviews: such gloom and pretensions! It get me … Fortsätt läsa
”If the people go hungry, they will eat their rulers”
Your destiny in the orange envelope I I want something new, I need something new, I want something else. And I surely don’t want the living conditions I have. II Lack of freedom and poverty is to not … Fortsätt läsa
Jag trivs bäst bak låsta dörrar med 7tillhållarlås (travesti på Ulf Lundell, Öppna landskap)
“Öppna landskap” (Open landscapes) is a ballad by the Swedish rock icon and author Ulf Lundell. The song is often sung and well known to Swedes, sometimes called “The unofficial Swedish Anthem”. It was released in 1982 but the Swedish … Fortsätt läsa
The road to hell
The Swedish Democrats (SD) is a nationalist and social conservative political party. It was formed 1988 by people with roots in Nazism and racism, once a small extremist party with no influence but after a couple of decades it changed … Fortsätt läsa
The media game: Hang the man
I started the day as I use to, coffee and a cheese sandwich and reading newspaper on the web. Big sigh! Another sulphurous debate article against Peter Handke and the Swedish Academy and its members for the choice of Handke … Fortsätt läsa
Former Secretary of the Swedish Academy Sara Danius is dead
Former Secretary of the Swedish Academy Sara Danius is dead. She was born April 5, 1962 and she died the night to October 12, 2019. She knew when to put the foot down and when to leave the room, even … Fortsätt läsa
”Drink Tap Water in Sweden! Just Like All Swedes Do!”
”Drink Tap Water in Sweden! Just Like All Swedes Do!” But don’t beat up people brutally on the street because they annoys you – and think you will get away with it. I’m not a nationalist and have never been. … Fortsätt läsa
Are you alone today on Midsummer’s Eve (in Sweden!)
Är du ensam idag på Midsommarafton? Vet då att det är du inte ensam om! Are you alone today at Midsummer’s Eve? Know then, you are not alone about that!
Grayest November in Sweden
Hidden hate in my heart in Stockholm Sweden in greyest November with daylight less than 8 hours, keep the flame. That’s when an official explains to me how an expandable and adjustable shower curtain rod works. ”Buy on IKEA” … Fortsätt läsa
Dead Queen, City of Stockholm
Do not breathe the air in my capital, Stockholm city, be- cause it is poisoned by the stifling stench of inbreeding! Close eyes and ears to the city’s leading priestesses, all blindly anchored in their middleclass crotches while they … Fortsätt läsa
Chinese drama, Internet use and Swedish matters of the heart
According to Swedish newspapers reports in September were public institutions in Sweden such as Sweden’s television and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs exposed to massive attacks by Chinese internet trolls. The affected have confirmed that ”an increased activity has been … Fortsätt läsa
Moving, still steady
I’ve lived in this house for ten years but for the last years I’ve mostly been online, it all while I tried to shake off my feelings of wearing a cooling suit of loneliness and desolation. Solitude has for long … Fortsätt läsa
So.. what happened in Sweden this Tuesday?
The Prime Minister was voted out of his post today. The new Speaker of the Parliament will now organize and lead the preparing talks with the party leaders in order to choose a candidate for a new Prime Minister post … Fortsätt läsa
Hen house
Part I, Saturday It’s the weekend after Sweden voted for new leaderships in counties and parliament. The mandates for the parliament after the final statement is 144-143 to the favor of red/green bloc, but Swedish Democrats receives 62 mandates. The … Fortsätt läsa
Sweden, seen by CNN and BBC
Still in this messy times, we have stable media that try to provide a decent image of the outside world. As just having my fuel for both breakfast and lunch, (coffee and toast sandwiches), I read two articles online about … Fortsätt läsa
Hot potatoes
I feel the smell of boiled potatoes from the kitchen newly put off the stove, still hot and now cooling off. Newly boiled and still warm potatoes is “forbidden fruit” for a diabetic like me. This because a hot boiled … Fortsätt läsa
Perspective (world closer my door I almost got my toes toasted)
I usually start my day with coffee while I check the news from the world on the web. And ”the world” is somewhere on the other side of Oresund Bridge. But now ”the world” has come close to my own … Fortsätt läsa
An eloquent man
He once began as an eloquent young man with very little to say. What people liked then and still like with his novels is hard to say. But even if his admirers normally are no bookworms, they seems able to … Fortsätt läsa
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