Clik here to view.
Weekend Fun
Watched most of the 1984 animated Miyazaki feature film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind on DVD. Like others of his I’ve seen before, it’s visually stunning and has a pretty pointless story. Sat...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekend Fun
Celebrated 100th birthday of my mom’s aunt, a sprightly and clear-minded lady who likes conversation and hugs and has no problem recognising her niece’s kids who rarely visit. Attended concert with...
View ArticleSkiing Holiday, Broken Bone
Sweden is shaped like a ski, and people live mainly in the southern quarter, but in the other three-quarters there are many skiing resorts. I’ve been going there every few years since I was three. I’m...
View ArticleWeekend Fun
Been a while since I wrote one of these. Here’s what I did for fun this past weekend. Attended an afternoon scifi mini-convention at the Tech Museum, organised by my dear old Tolkien Society buddy and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekend Fun
Played Eclipse for the first time with my new Muscovite friends Anton & Maria and frequent guest Swedepat. This Finnish 2011 boardgame has become a runaway international hit and is currently...
View ArticleWeekend Fun
I had some bad news about two Boomer dudes that I know and like(d): one died of lung cancer the other day, and the other was diagnosed with leukemia. But apart from that I had a pretty good weekend:...
View ArticleWeekend Fun
Played the zombie movie boardgame Last Night On Earth and Airlines Europe, both very enjoyable. Had a party where I couldn’t understand what anybody said since they spoke Mandarin, but I was happy...
View ArticleVacation Fun
Spent a week gloriously off-line at my mom’s glorious summer house in the archipelago. Oh the joy of reading 300 pages for fun in one day without feeling the need to check e-mail! Here are the books I...
View ArticleI Am Sailing
My dad’s a member of a yacht club in order to have sheltered jetty space for his motorboat. It’s not a fancy affair, most of the boats being small and decades old. But many of them are sailboats, and...
View ArticleLondon Weekend With Both The Young Dudes
Spent Friday though Sunday in London with Junior and his buddy, both 14. My original plan had been to find a gaming convention with both a video game track and a boardgame track. But failing that, I...
View Article800 Hidden Plastic Jars
The other day somebody hid a geocache a short bike ride from my house at a spot where, I now know, an orienteering-themed fraternal order was founded in 1930. Today I rode out and became the second...
View ArticleWeekend Fun
Here’s what I wrote in 2009 about weekend fun. The way I like to lead my life is basically Epicurean: “Epicurus believed that the greatest good was to seek modest pleasures in order to attain a state...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekend Fun
New Thing — great Stockholm funk band! Here’s what I did for fun this weekend. Went to local bands night at Göta Källare (where I saw the Super Furry Animals and the Soundtrack Of Our Lives back in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekend Fun
One of four grotesque male faces on a 17th century object in the Tre Kronor castle museum. The piece looks like a little baptismal font, but the label says “possibly a kitchen mortar”. Neither function...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekend Fun
Space Whale The past two weekends were a lot of fun. The Royal Technical College’s orchestra and several combined student choirs from Sweden and Finland performed Giuseppe Verdi’s 1874 Requiem, an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekend Fun
Edmund de Waal at Artipelag It’s been a fun weekend! Here’s what I did. Watched Jrette’s dance show, snappy and lively! Inspired by Kate Feluś’s fine recent book Secret Life of the Georgian Garden, I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hiking In Abisko
Abisko national park is in the mountains of extreme northern Sweden, Sámi country, reindeer country, where half of the year is lit by constant sun and the other half is frigid darkness and aurorae....
View ArticleClik here to view.
WorldCon 75 in Helsinki
The 75th World Science Fiction Convention took place in Helsinki and seems to have had the second-highest attendance ever: more than 7000 people in the Messukeskus convention centre, 2000 of whom had...
View Article