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Angelina Jolie, Essential Spice
Monday, 23 November 2009 6:24 A GMT+01
Angelina Jolie as Salt
I cook with her regularly.
For Bacon Mountain's Majesty
Saturday, 21 November 2009 9:22 P GMT+01
If you're not hungry now, there's something very wrong with you.
Category: Bulletin-Bored The Viking Diaries
Still sweating the Swedish
Thursday, 19 November 2009 10:08 P GMT+01
I spent all of yesterday afternoon at a conference of women entrepreneurs...Swedish women entrepreneurs. My boss arranged it as an "inspirational"activity for our department, but for the most part I was mainly inspired to only ever attend conferences
Category: Culture-Clash The Viking Diaries
Will I ever learn?
Monday, 16 November 2009 10:00 P GMT+01
Sometime late last spring, my father-in-law told Dr. Darling that he had volunteered to serve as chauffeur for his wife and her best friend who were attending a Cliff Richard concert in Malmö this weekend.
Category: Domestic Bliss The Viking Diaries
Faux News proves WH right to question its news cred
Thursday, 12 November 2009 9:55 A GMT+01
How do I love thee, Daily Show? Let me count the ways...
Dan Savage on the definition of marriage
Tuesday, 10 November 2009 9:30 A GMT+01
Guess what? Marriage has been redefined over time, and means different things to different people.
Category: Alt-Media-Commentary Multi-Media/Moblogging
Kallbadhus Reunion
Sunday, 8 November 2009 3:00 P GMT+01
One my favorite former ex-pat pals was passing through town on Saturday and had arranged a mini-reunion with those in her former circle who are still living in Malmö.
Sucks to be us sometimes
Friday, 6 November 2009 1:29 P GMT+01
It's been a rather tough week at The Penthouse Nordic...starting with a scary medical test (bi-annual liver scan for the possible spread of the cancer that claimed my right eye two years ago) and that *should* have been enough to deal with...
The L Word revisited
Tuesday, 3 November 2009 10:27 A GMT+01
I seem to have crossed some kind of magic threshold on "the Google" recently, because in spite of the fact that October of 2009 was one of my laziest blogging months EVAH (12 entries total, only half of which were original material)
Category: Just the Journal State & Main
More phone fun
Sunday, 1 November 2009 8:09 A GMT+01
Our plan to torment my father-in-law by rotating unfamiliar male voices on the outgoing message on our oddly-behaving answering machine fell apart late last week when the machine stopped working altogether, prompting Sweden's most informed consumer t
Category: Domestic Bliss The Viking Diaries
I remember leisure time...
Friday, 30 October 2009 8:34 P GMT+01
Work has been crazy for both of us lately...with me going in early (and skipping the gym to do so) and Dr. Darling staying late nearly every afternoon. But by the middle of this week, the Swede was seeing a bit of light at the end of the tunnel.
Category: Domestic Bliss The Viking Diaries
Enthusiastic practicality
Wednesday, 28 October 2009 9:58 A GMT+01
One of my favorite colleagues, Eliza, came barreling into my office this afternoon while I was on the phone. Dancing around my desk she whispered loudly, "You've got to get off the phone." The fact that I was talking to our boss did not deter her.
Category: Just the Journal The Viking Diaries
New laundry war...
Monday, 26 October 2009 9:28 A GMT+01
It's been awhile since I've told any tales from the Swedish Laundry Room, primarily because we've had something of a monopoly on our preferred weekly time slot.
Category: Domestic Bliss The Viking Diaries
First Family by Annie Leibovitz
Friday, 23 October 2009 8:54 A GMT+01
I generally don't spend a lot of time looking at other people's photos on Flickr. But the exception is The Official White House Photostream, which never fails to charm, impress and inform. (Even though not all of the shots are taken by Annie Leibovit
Category: Alt-Media-Commentary The Viking Diaries
Mormon Prop 8 money trail now on film
Wednesday, 21 October 2009 9:02 A GMT+01
How ironic that a CHURCH that once advocated multiple wives for its male members (pun very much intended) would work so hard to deny the CIVIL RIGHT of a gay person to have just one spouse.
Category: Alt-Media-Commentary
What a warm welcome...
Monday, 19 October 2009 7:08 A GMT+01
After much drama courtesy of the Super Secret System for securing holiday vacation time that apparently even Dr. Darling's boss has no knowledge of (more on that latter), we were finally able to book our Christmas trip to the US tonight.
Category: Road Trip! The Viking Diaries
When iPhone love & GOP loathing collide
Sunday, 18 October 2009 8:16 P GMT+01
When iPhone love & GOP loathing collide
Category: Alt-Media-Commentary Multi-Media/Moblogging
Perfect convergence of fall entertainment
Friday, 16 October 2009 3:02 P GMT+01
Leave it to Glee to find a way to combine two of my favorite things: American football and Beyonce.
Category: Bulletin-Bored The Viking Diaries
Questioning my Swede-cred...
Tuesday, 13 October 2009 7:21 A GMT+01
Iäve been living in Sweden for over 7 years now and consider myself to be pretty well integrated into society. I've learned the language, cracked the cultural code of the workplace (no to mention the apartment building laundry room).
Category: Just the Journal The Viking Diaries
FL Congressman Alan Grayson is my hero
Friday, 9 October 2009 7:40 A GMT+01
This week my favorite member of Congress reminded his Democratic colleagues that Americans did not elect Olympian Snow president, and claimed that if Barack Obama ate a BLT for lunch tomorrow, the GOP would try to ban bacon.
Category: Alt-Media-Commentary The Viking Diaries
Fun with fathers-in-law
Tuesday, 6 October 2009 4:52 A GMT+01
Our answering machine has been behaving badly the last couple weeks. I came home from work one day to find the call indicator light flashing even though there were no messages on it.
Category: Domestic Bliss The Viking Diaries
America's Right-Wingnuts celebrate Olympic loss
Saturday, 3 October 2009 7:56 P GMT+01
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Category: Alt-Media-Commentary The Viking Diaries
Two Big O's invade Denmark
Wednesday, 30 September 2009 6:32 P GMT+01
Michelle Obama arrived in Copenhagen today to help sell Chicago to the International Olympic Committee as the host city for the 2016 Games.
Category: Alt-Media-Commentary The Viking Diaries
Behold the power of the tweet
Sunday, 27 September 2009 5:18 A GMT+01
When it comes to Twitter, I find that people tend to fall into two camps: those who "get it" and those who don't. And the folks who "get it" are often torn as to how hard we should try to convince the don'ts of what they're missing.
Category: Alt-Media-Commentary The Viking Diaries
Kallbadhus conflict...
Wednesday, 23 September 2009 9:34 A GMT+01
Saturday morning was sunshiney and warm, just begging for us to get outside and enjoy it before the Swedish autumn sets in. To my surprise and delight, Dr. Darling, suggested we go to the kallbadhus.
Category: Culture-Clash The Viking Diaries