Rottin' in Denmark

Come suh, bai. Wappenin?

2008-05-15T16:02:42Z

I've spent most of this week writing a report on Guyana, the so-called 'only English-speaking country in South America'. This led to me to wonder how the hell I had never heard of Guyana before, which led to Wikipedia, which led to the page on Guy...

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What is the smallest number of words it takes to make you cry?

2008-05-15T15:28:49Z

If that was a contest, The New York Times today would be in the running: Many victims of the quake are children in a country where most families are allowed to have only one. I didn't know it was possible to have your heart broken by a sub-headl...

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The roof, the roof, the roof is ... under construction

2008-05-14T10:16:11Z

So my institute is forcing us to work from home while they switch around all the stuff in our offices like a bad '80s movie. Being home between nine and five is always surreal. There's this whole other world going on while the rest of us are at w...

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Bike ride to Dyrehaven

2008-05-11T14:33:08Z

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1,000 words about my weekend

2008-05-11T14:08:33Z

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Cross your T's and dot your I's. And O's. And E's.

2008-05-09T12:05:36Z

I was reading the New Yorker’s scorching review of ‘Speed Racer’ today, (‘Our eyeballs will slowly, though never completely, recover, but what of our souls?’), and the following sentence jumped out at me: There’s something about the ululating ...

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How do you get American right-wingers to defend gay rights?

2008-05-06T12:47:24Z

Just tell them gays are increasingly victimized ... by Muslims. Not very long ago, Oslo was an icy Shangri-la of Scandinavian self-discipline, governability, and respect for the law. But in recent years, there have been grim changes, including...

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You stay ugly, Adam Sandler

2008-05-06T12:31:17Z

It’s official: Adam Sandler’s new movie sucks. You know how I can tell? Look at this publicity still. See that bulbous tricep peeking out from Sandler’s Springstee-shirt? And the wiry, veiney forearms? Each muscle fiber is the tiny strangula...

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The further joys of friendship

2008-05-02T18:09:26Z

My French friend, walking around town: What's is this place ahead? Amigo? Me, wondering why I possess this knowledge: Oh, that's Copenhagen's gay sauna. France: My uncle goes to gay saunas a lot. Me: Why? France: He's gay. Don't you all do that? M...

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I've been saying that shit for years

2008-05-01T13:09:02Z

David Sedaris in The New Yorker: It was odd. I’d always heard how clean Canada was, how peaceful, but perhaps people had been talking about a different part, the middle, maybe, or those rocky islands off the eastern coast. Here it was just one cr...

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