Kategoriarkiv: web papers
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
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
The dismantling of a writer: Patricia Highsmith
Few writers have been written about over time as much as Patricia Highsmith. She cannot be overlooked but yet looked down on. Writers and journalists who probably got the assignment to write about her and accept it to be able … Fortsätt läsa
Who is Olga? And where’s she?
Who is Olga? And where’s she? ”Everyone” knows by now who the Other One is and what he’s alleged to has written and said and not – and what he himself claims he has not written and not said. ”I’m … 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
Changes (living in a ”free” world)
There will be some changes on this blog until I paid the fee getting me free from ads. (Meaning some of my entries destroyed by inserted ads are now set ”private” not visible for a while.) If only the ads … 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
Sunday morning coffee insnowed in Sweden
The weather reports promised large snowing at the East coast regions and it came and comes! I’m having my Sunday morning coffee insnowed in Sweden while the plow cars roar outside my windows and I read online a CNN article … Fortsätt läsa
A wolf got to do what a wolf got to do
A wolf hunting a deer into a village was shot yesterday, Tuesday January 29, 2019. Predators lives on hunting, eating meat. How should we be able to have wild animals in our nature if we do not allow predators to … Fortsätt läsa
”On behalf of our nation…”
Trump at Ceremonial Swearing In at Ovale room White House. October 8, 2018 Following quoted from realclearpolitics.com October 8, 2018 ”Members of Congress, members of the Cabinet, honored guests, and fellow Americans: It is my privilege to address you … 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
”Träd föll över man – omkom” (Falling tree)
”Träd föll över man – omkom”: Det var en och samma irriterande rubrik i varenda dagstidning över hela landet den gångna måndagen – då inget speciellt hände annat än Sverigedemokraterna blev satta på plats i talmansvalen. Nu kommer tisdagen inrullande … 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
What in Helsinki did they talk about?
Media and politicians in Europe and US feared what would happen when Putin and Trump met in Helsinki this Monday. Now, Putin is not the kind of diplomatic European leader that anyone would dare to bully, so the bull didn’t… … Fortsätt läsa
Rotten eggs (the cracking of a Culture Elite)
From the nicest chambers came odors as of rotten eggs from a window forgotten ajar. Then surprisingly a compost bag was thrown out and exposed to street people, but only for scandalous purposes. And so, sudden all windows wide open, … Fortsätt läsa
Swedish to English, ”knytblus” – ”pussy-bow blouse”
I wrote on Friday about the Swedish Academy scandal and about how (many) women (and men) in Sweden on Friday 13 wore a ”knytblus” to show their sympathy for Sara Danius, the newly kicked director for … Fortsätt läsa
On Friday 13, the last pig goes to slaughter
Today, it is neck tie blouse day in Sweden, for Ministers as well as common people in support for Sara Danius, yesterday kicked head leader for the Swedish Academy. Left: ”Den sista grisen” … Fortsätt läsa
Spring, and I felt like a tapped maple tree
Spring and I felt like a tapped maple tree (after the bloating). Spring said last week ”I’m coming”, but I felt lowered like a tapped maple tree (past two weeks of poor bloating). The nights are still cold and therefore … Fortsätt läsa
Victims or martyrs or heroes?
Some thoughts from an outside person! Inspired by the latest school shooting in USA (Florida school shooting February 14, 2018) a Swedish newspaper has conducted a peer review among their (Swedish) readers with the question ”Do you think it is … Fortsätt läsa
The telling about the world around – in Sweden (Berättelsen om världen – i Sverige)
Berättelsen om världen – i Sverige The article is written in Swedish. I did my best to translate it. The Swedish version comes right after this translation. The links to my reading is to be found in the Swedish text. … Fortsätt läsa
Sweden today
At the Sweden’s most northerly point, called Three-Country Cairn, the sun will never raise from today, the first of December. This will be for about 2 weeks. Then the same phenomenon will appears at Sweden’s northernmost city Kiruna. It is … Fortsätt läsa
It causes me pain in my fingers to spread butter on the bread
It causes me pain in my fingers to spread butter on the bread. I have luckily bought ready-sliced cheese home, but when I stretch out my arm for a slice of cheese it hurts in my back. The relapse this … Fortsätt läsa
So much love…
After weeks of silence and not a beep from or about Putin, I was wondering if he has been so busy with his last puppy he haven’t got the time to do or say any to be caught up in … Fortsätt läsa
Gothenburg November 17, 2017 The meeting that never occurred
Gothenburg November 17, 2017 The meeting that never occurred – if you are looking for news about the summit in the world wide press, such as CNN, ABC, BBC and all the other big ones. Swedish media, on the other hand, … Fortsätt läsa
Things are not what they should be
In Swedish below It is the seventh of November and the sun shines like a madman through my south windows. It has been for a week now, November and this sunny madness. November should be nothing but a gray and … Fortsätt läsa
”The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it”
John 1:5 ”The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it” After the last killings, Manhattan October 31, 2017, I felt such an overwhelming tiredness coming over me when I heard it on the news. It comes … Fortsätt läsa
Bugs (essentials)
The overwhelming amount of testimony (#metoo) that has become to a landslide that so many women and girls throughout the world have suffered all kind of insults from scornful sexist comments (called jokes!), to grabbing and other kind of daily … Fortsätt läsa
On Saturday, Madrid will sing for us?
A respite is set to Saturday for Catalonian President Carles Puigdemont by the government in Madrid. But it’s just a helpless game for the galleries. What is going on behind the curtains we don’t have access to, just hoping there … Fortsätt läsa
The bull in Madrid and the donkey in Barcelona
There seems to be very little of sympathy in Europe for Mr. Puigdemont, the President of Catalonia, and for his efforts to create an independent state. The objections are several by many on different levels, public or private views. It … Fortsätt läsa
To talk too much – or not talk at all?
We have in our world today a big mouthed leader who is an idiot… After having him as a pain in ass for the last year or more – his last … Fortsätt läsa
Love gives depth and color to life
Love gives depth and color to life. Without love, live becomes grayish, dull and pale and two-dimensional like a yesterday’s newspaper page, tattered full with house flies poop, it’s just nonsense script. I … Fortsätt läsa
I dream of walks in sunsets on a pristine beach
A young man close to me imagine us come together sitting on a beach talking. In the sunset or sunrise I assume. But I cannot imagine it as a reality to become. Because we live far and we both … Fortsätt läsa
The Macron government on the move
I’m reading on BBC website today the 31 August 2017: President Emmanuel Macron’s government has begun its drive to overhaul France’s rigid labour laws, vowing to ”free up the energy of the workforce”. The reforms aim to make it easier for … Fortsätt läsa
”Personal growth” in Sweden and anti-gay laws in the world
Black day February 24, 2014 (In Swedish below) Monday, Ugandan President signed an anti-gay law that can bring a life sentence in jail. On Tuesday he mocked homosexuals in social media, calling them ”disgusting”. Wednesday, to my morning … Fortsätt läsa
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