Why Does First Second Suck?

(February 25, 2013)

So badly? Welcome to my new comics reviewing blog. For years I’ve wondered why the everything First Second publishes sucks.  Or it’s by a really good artist, it doesn’t quite suck, but it’s definitely the worst work that that artist has done in his or her life. When First Second was new and shiny, I … Continue reading Why Does First Second Suck?

Youth in Asia

(February 25, 2013)

The funny thing being that Amazon apparently mistakenly sends enough stuff to Thailand that somebody felt the need to make a stamp. Well, I thought it was funny.  So there.

Years and Years

(February 23, 2013)

I was reading this article and thinking “gee, 1980 sure was a good year for music”. So I wanted to list all the albums I had from 1980.  And then I discovered that I lacked the release year for about 1300 of mah records. Fortunately, discogs.com has a nice API, so I wrote a tiny, … Continue reading Years and Years

The Liquorice Diaries

(February 22, 2013)

It has been suggested that the new Hockeypucker candy is simply a way to eat Hockeypulver without looking like a moran. I, on the other hand, maintain that Hockeypucker is nothing more than a new name for Lakrisal, and tastes nothing like Hockeypulver. So for today’s experiment, I ground up both these and compared them … Continue reading The Liquorice Diaries

1995: En glad gutt

(February 19, 2013)

I haven’t read many of the Norwegian classics.  I’m pretty sure I’ve never read anything by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (his name translates to Bear Star Bear Son — like wow) before. This book, called perhaps “A Jolly Lad”, is a slender volume on young love across the class barriers, as well as a society getting progressively … Continue reading 1995: En glad gutt

Breaking The Law

(February 18, 2013)

Package With Another Package Inside I Did It Anyway.  Hah!

CDO Jukebox

(February 17, 2013)

I buy a lot of albums, and I have since I had enough money to buy a lot of albums. Since the late 80s, my listening methodology hasn’t changed much.  I buy an album, and I put it in the “new” stack, and those are mainly the albums that I play.  I delve into older … Continue reading CDO Jukebox

1995: Sataniske vers

(February 14, 2013)

My sister used to work for a book publisher, so she got tons of free books.  The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie was probably one of them, which explains why I’ve got it. It’s better than I expected.  It’s written in a very late-80s coke-fuelled wide-eye manic way, with one tableaux after another.  Quite entertaining, … Continue reading 1995: Sataniske vers

20 Years of Free Software

(February 7, 2013)

It’s 2013.  It’s cold outside.  I’ve had a couple of drinks.  It’s the perfect time to sum up my career in free software.  I think it was yonder in 1992. That them there old days. I’d started using GNUS (the Emacs newreader) to read Usenet news.  My most pressing concern was how to read the, … Continue reading 20 Years of Free Software

1995: Till Damaskus/Ett drömspel

(February 5, 2013)

I couldn’t remember buying this, and it turns out that I didn’t.  It was forgotten by somebody at my apt, and he’s since gone onto become a theater instructor.  How appropriate, since this is a collection of two plays by August Strindberg. I probably get a more abstract impression of the plays than originally intended.  … Continue reading 1995: Till Damaskus/Ett drömspel

4AD in the Early 90s

(February 2, 2013)

I used to be a 4AD fan and kept a discography going back in the 80s.  Or 90s, I guess.  I also used to buy lots of British music papers. Rooting through the basement storage here today, I found a cache of snipped 4AD-related articles and reviews that I had apparently collected back then, but … Continue reading 4AD in the Early 90s