I am not an accordion hater. To me there is nothing inherently wrong with accordion music in itself, but like so many things, an accordion can be used improperly and for nefarious purposes.
I’ve been a sappy sentimental tourist in Europe before, and I vaguely (but fondly) remember the first time I heard someone playing La [...]
I’m sure you’re all sick of hearing about Eurovision by this point, but last year I started a tradition, and darnit, I’m sticking with it! It’s time to announce the 2010 winners of the Eurovision WTF awards!
But first, since I have a large American audience that has the misfortune to not watch Eurovision, I’d [...]
I know that some people find it annoying that subscribing to my RSS feed in Google Reader only shows the summary of new posts, forcing you to click through to the website to read them. I just want to say that I have been working hard on trying to fix that.
I really don’t have any [...]
In case you live under a rock (or outside the US), last night was the Superbowl. That’s a big American football game that everyone watches, even if they’re not into sports. Normally I don’t really care about it, but this year the two teams playing were the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans [...]
I’ve decided that I should really try to post more often to my blog this year (inspired partly by Shane). Once again I find that when we talk to friends/family outside of Norway, there are some things we keep repeating, and I have gotten so out of the blogging habit that it doesn’t even register [...]
In the Weird Coincidences department…
The day after I published my last blog post, a new series of ads went up in the Oslo subway system, featuring money origami! I think I did a double-take the first time I saw one of the signs at the station, but unfortunately my camera battery needed to be charged, [...]
A few flag links found their way to my desktop recently, and since I love flags, I thought it only fair to pass them along, even if they’re slightly out of date.
The first is an extremely thorough grading system that assigns each country’s a numerical score and corresponding letter grade, based on a complicated list [...]
So I had a random post scheduled to go up this evening (it was about flags; I love flags), but I have to bump it to next week, because they just announced the Nobel Peace Prize! And Obama won it?!
I love Obama just as much as the next American ex-pat, and I am extremely excited [...]
I love food, and I love flags. So imagine my delight when I came across this article about the Sydney International Food Festival: National Flags Made Out of Food!
The creators used regional foods to recreate the flags of the countries participating in the festival. What a wonderful idea, and some of them were very well [...]
Despite a horrible case of writer’s block, I feel obligated to post something today. For months I’ve been trying to decide what I should post today, and as the sun sets (which here in the north means it’s quite late) the answer has yet to come to me. Why the pressure? Because today is the [...]