WorldTraveler

Moments in time captured with various odd symbols referred to in the lingua franca as letters.

Saturday, August 30, 2008

International Housing Offenders

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I was reading an article in one of the local Lund newspapers and came across an article that noted that of the 2000 exchange students for th...
Thursday, July 03, 2008

Do your pants hang low?

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The time has come to speak of many things...as Lewis Carrol would say and perhaps it isn't pure coincidence that he is quoted in this po...
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Friday, June 13, 2008

Final Thoughts: Sweden vs. Greece Euro 2008

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I've always been out of Europe for the major tournaments. In 2006 I was stuck working while Sweden got knocked around by Germany and of ...
Sunday, June 08, 2008

Enchantress of Florence; Not his best

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Its hard to really jump on Rushdie for anything that he's written. However with his latest offering I find myself a bit confused and wo...
Monday, May 26, 2008

Afghanistan is a bad joke

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When he leaves office, a certain someone will probably point to a country in South-Central Asia and claim that this is where he made a diffe...
Thursday, May 22, 2008

Movie Review: Goodbye Lenin!

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I guess I sort of already knew what the movie was about through hearsay as well as having heard about it on the radio. Simple story, boy in ...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

A neo-liberal solution of sorts...

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Since the World Bank and IMF not to mention the WTO have such amazing ideas I thought I would apply them to United States Armed Forces. The ...
Thursday, May 15, 2008

Moving Backwards; an American Tale in two parts

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Part I Bush is comparing the 'terrorists' to Nazis. It is impossible to compare the two groups of people. One was intent on genocide...
Sunday, May 11, 2008

Norwegian Wood

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I finished Murakami's Norwegian Wood last wednesday. The more I read Murakami the more I am impressed with his writing. Of course I am s...
Saturday, May 10, 2008

Moving Backwards: a Russian tale...

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They had nuclear missiles in Moscow rolling down the streets for a parade a few days back. They were celebrating. Odd that some celebrations...
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Currently Reading Norwegian Wood

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Well so I'm hard at work on this paper on Orcas but I managed to pick up a copy of Murakami's Norwegian Wood which I've had on r...
Friday, April 25, 2008

Haruki Murakami, Bill Bryson, and Champagne

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I finished a travel memoir about Australia today by Bill Bryson and I have to say it was hilarious. I would heartily recommend it to anyone ...

Question of the Day

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If three American Mercenaries shoot an old Iraqi man in a city somewhere in Iraq and no one is around to see it, does the old man even exist...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

Film Club and Exam time

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Tonight is the first official meeting of the LUMES film club. The idea behind the club is that the movies watched will in some ways be relev...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Absolut Idiot: Or how Americans portray themselves.

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Last week there was a mention in the Swedish news that an ad by Absolut Vodka had offended some Americans. Then in Sweden it wasn't repo...
Monday, April 14, 2008

Ezra Pound and Paul Auster

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Well I tore my way through Rushdie and managed to finish it off at around three in the morning on Sunday. I have to say that I think this wa...
Saturday, April 12, 2008

sex-obssesed Republicans and the war in Iraq.

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We all know that Bill Clinton dropped his droors in the oval office and let a certain Lewinsky blow Dixie on his magic troll flute. This bro...
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Friday, April 11, 2008

Salman Rushdie and the "Ground Beneath Her Feet"

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Its been a while since I felt ready to plunge myself into one of Rushdie's bizarre worlds of tragedy and magical realism. Of course ever...
Thursday, April 10, 2008

Spring Time at Berlin Zoo

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Saturday, April 05, 2008

Islands in the Stream

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Another Hemingway novel that someone found in a used bookstore in London. This is always the best way to find books. When you least expect i...
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