I was lazily staring at my TV, more specifically the Late Show (yes, we get all the social commentary from Letterman, Leno and O’Brien here as well – but with a week’s lag), and they had a “holiday shopping in New York quiz” – one of those things with two logical options and one comical. There was one showing a woman eating, and asking if she had stopped to get:
- a) Hot cocoa
- b) Soup and a sandwich
- c) Reindeer kabobs
…and it took me a few seconds to realize what the joke was supposed to be, because around here eating reindeer is nothing strange. Here in the northern parts, it’s probably a standard item on many people’s julbord as well (and yes, the traditional Swedish christmas meal comes in the form of a smörgåsbord)
So, how do people who have grown up with an image of reindeer only as the (sometimes) red-nosed animals in front of Santa’s sleigh feel about the tought of eating one? Say, compared to a cat? If there’s one thing I’d never eat, it’s cat… no matter what the Chinese say…
By the way, how would you feel about (someone) having sex with a reindeer? Compared to, for example, having sex with a horse? How does one do it with a horse, by the way? Do you need something to stand on, or is it a matter of taking a steady hold of the sattle and sort of hang over the beast’s butt? Or do people engaged in that sort of things prefer to hook up with small ponies? Is my conception of the horse’s.. uhm.. glory hole.. being somewhere at chest level wrong? Are perhaps stallions preferred, so it’s a matter of getting beneath the animal? Wouldn’t it be more practical to have sex with a reindeer, or is bigger better when it comes to animals? Many are the questions…
Sorry, I’m just horsing around – it turns out that the year’s most read online article in Seattle Times was about a guy who died after doing it, or rather being done, horsy style (I can’t figure out any other way it could lead to a perforated colon…) And Xeni Jardin at Boing Boing suggests articles about sweet equine luving as a way to increase traffic… so well, I’m getting on the horse-humping bandwagon as well. Be sure about that.
I wonder if Hollywood will see the possibilities in the subject? I mean, they did open the path for movies about sexually deviant cowboys this year.
Tags: news, thoughts, tv
December 31, 2005 at 2:01 am · Filed under Random ramblings & reflections
I was thinking… and it struck me that it would be kind of stupid to enter the sequence 4 8 15 16 23 42 into a lottery. Becuase then you’d end up being cursed like the people on Lost. No, that’s not it… but if you entered those numbers, and it actually happens that they are the winning numbers for the 100+ million jackpot – then you’ll feel really stupid when you realize that the jackpot will be split with the thousands of others who also used the same numbers.
Tags: lost, random, tv
December 29, 2005 at 11:52 pm · Filed under General, Random ramblings & reflections
I finally got to see A History of Violence the other day (it opened here in Sweden three weeks ago), and I found it to be a very rewarding cinematic experience . I have noticed that opinions have been very varied, and I suppose it is one of those films that doesn’t fit everyone.
Based on the graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke, A History of Violence tells the story about the mild-mannered family man Tom Stall, who becomes a local hero after defending his diner from a pair of fugitive criminals. But the following media coverege attracts attention, and Stall’s diner is visited by a scarred mobster who greets him as Joey Cusack and claims to know him from Philadelphia…
I havn’t read the graphic novel, but I think David Cronenberg presents the story in a gritty, mundane tone that could be true to the atmosphere of the original medium. The whole film feels quite unspectacular – and that I mean in a positive sense, as I think that solid, straight-forward films are becoming too few and far apart in the main stream.
The cast is overall good, Maria Bello plays the part of Stall’s wife very well, as well as Ed Harris as Carl Fogarty, the aforementioned mobster. And then there’s Viggo Mortensen, who hasn’t made any particular impression on me, just an actor among others – until now, that is. I found this performance absolutely remarkable, but I can’t really put it in words. The same goes for the story, which I feel is of the kind that is hard to discuss unless I’m talking to someone who also has seen the film. I think much of its effect lies in the impression on the viewer, rather then in the plot itself.
There has been a few remarks regarding the violence and sexual content, but personally I don’t think it was any excessive amounts. In comparsion titles like, for example, Sin City and Kill Bill, had much more of that, but perhaps the mundane atmosphere of A History of Violence gives it a stronger, more realistic impact. Or maybe those complaints were from people who thought “Oh, I loved Viggo in LOTR and Hidalgo, I have to see this!”
In conclusion I have to say this is one of my favorite movies of the year, in close competition with Oldboy and Million Dollar Baby (I know those were originally released in 2003 and 2004 respectively, but they didn’t open here until this year so they’re on my 2005 list)
Tags: A History of Violence, movies, review
December 22, 2005 at 4:48 pm · Filed under Entertainment & Culture, Movies & TV
Kind reminder: If the songs played is less than the downloaded songs, please make sure that the song downloaded should not be more than 500 ones.
Maybe not that funny, but wonderfully incomprehensible.
Well, when I was visiting a friend recently I noticed that the people with mp3 players seemed a bit less bored by the four hour buss ride than I was, so yesterday I decided to buy the generic cheap-n-simple 512MB player they had on offer at the the supermarket. Maybe not exactly the best, but good enough for what little travelling I do. Better than the english in the manual, I suppose. Could use better earphones, though, but that seems to be the case even with expensive stuff as well.
And more Engrish here.
Tags: gadgets, random
December 18, 2005 at 12:53 pm · Filed under General
Usually I think extravagantly designed computer cases all look like they are targeted at 14-year old FPS gamers – all cliché sci-fi-ish shapes with gaudy neon colored bling-bling. Tasteless, in short.
The people at Lian Li have made good cases for a long time, with clean but not escpecially spectacular designs. Then they let there designers create a special design for their 20th anniversary: the conch-inspired PC-777.
If anyone thinks I need somewhat expensive computer items for christmas, this would be a good start.
Tags: gadgets, tech
December 14, 2005 at 10:49 am · Filed under General
Seems the blog has ground to a standstill recently. I guess one explanation could be called writer’s block. Or maybe just “block”, since I get them occasionally in other areas as well. It’s not like there’s a lack of ideas, nor a lack of motivation – it’s more like a wall between the ideas and the motivation.
Another reason for the scarceness of posts was that I was out of town for a week, visiting a friend. While staring at someone else’s screen could be considered a change of surroundings, I decided not to do that. I also got to meet the adorable little dog I mentioned a while ago. I’ve always been somewhat sceptical to small “ornamental” dogs, including Chihuahuas, but now I feel that if I ever get a dog that breed would be high on the list.
Well, to get back to this site, I’ve started the technical bit of redesigning the blog. I found a GPL licensed theme that made a good base and decided to scrap the idea of doing it all from scratch. Probably a good thing, since I and code don’t get along all the time. Progress (and most likely a bit of regress) can be seen at the mess that is my test install of WordPress
Tags: update
December 14, 2005 at 3:24 am · Filed under General
