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Le Weekend

Here is Saturday. Here is the Lund City "Night of Culture." The program is quite diverse and offers what appears to be something for everyone. After I finish studying some more for my final next week, I am going to go to the Poetry reading in the City Theatre at seven this evening. Hopefully it will be quite stimulating as I need some literary stimulation.

I've been reading Herman Hesse recently but it was rather dry so I had to take a break and read Murakami's "After Dark" and some of Nabokov's short stories. So then tomorrow is football practice for our program as we take on another grad program on wednesday. I'm playing defense and am planning on modeling myself on Puyol and Cannavaro. Back to the books.

Things to do oh the things to do...

So much going on but not really. What I mean is that I should be studying all the time that I am not in class but that would make me a dull boy now wouldn't it? School is fun I guess. Its one of those things where when you are in class you don't know what to do and when you are at home you don't know what to do. I need to go to Malmo on friday and ride my skateboard, it doesn't really solve anything but its nice all the same. New Jens Lekman is out but I haven't spent the money to purchase it yet. I am waiting for Lund library to get it and then I intend to burn it, not that I am advertising doing anything illegal mind you(cough).

For those of you that actually care about the weather, I generally don't but some do, its been really grey here. This is Swedish fall weather, quite rainy and meant for those kind of people who like to lay in bed with a glass of wine and a good book. Its also good for those of us who like to cook as it encourages us to stay home and do that. I need to go mushroom picking again but I'm not quite sure where to start. You see we have this great law in Sweden called everymans right which means, dear readers, that I can go to any forest and pick the mushrooms that I want. MMM delicious. I feel a Rissotto coming on.

The Concrete Jungle Indians

I've been reading Dagens Nyheter for the last two days both online and at Cafe Ariman where they have the daily edition and a story was in there that caught my attention.

Its a growing trend in Europe as well as the United States to live in an urban or suburban environment and drive around in an SUV(stadsjeep). Not only is this a waste of fuel but it is also leading to a need for bigger roads to accomodate such big vehicles. Does someone who lives in say Stockholm or Miami need to drive around in a Hummer? If anyone chose to answer yes to that question then there may be something quite wrong with them. So now the younger people in the cities have started to react to what is essentially a class status symbol. Enter the Concrete Jungle Indians.

This is an unorganized gang of young people ranging in age from thirty to twenty years of age and coming from various backgrounds(though many are university educated or currently students) who have had enough of this waste. They go around at night and let the air out of the tires on any SUV they can find in the city of Stockholm. Then once the task is complete they put a note on the window letting the driver know who is responsible for his flat tires and why he shouldn't be driving an SUV in the first place. Bravo! Down with the upper middle class and their consumerist excesses! Take the Subway instead and read a book, its a great way to skip this rush hour madness. Don't have a subway or good public transport? Start voting for someone who believes in it and doesn't have a career in oil in the family history.