November Pieces Of My Mind #2 [Aardvarchaeology]



  • This chocolate praline contains something that looks and smells like shampoo. Apparently it’s flavoured with elderflower extract.

  • Jrette prints out song lyrics and fixes them to the outside of the shower cubicle as aids to singing in the shower.

  • I’m kind of OK with most subcultural dress codes. But I really gotta say: young men wearing oversize baseball caps or stocking caps indoors look like they’re in Kindergarten.

  • I’m confused by the feminism that on one hand condemns the wearing of Hawaii shirts with beach babe cartoons, on the other hand organises proud plus-size burlesque shows. Would the shirt have been OK on a female Rosetta project member? What am I missing?

  • Bought Jrette two warm cotton nightgowns from Polarn & Pyret.

  • Manuscript reviewer: “Rundkvist criticises knowledge relativism, but still he proposes several weakly founded interpretations. He’s inconsistent!” Um… Do you even know what knowledge relativism means?

  • Drives me nuts when students pad their exam answers with tangentially relevant info that I have to wade through to see if they’ve actually responded to the fucking questions.

  • It’s snowing but the flakes melt before they reach the ground. I hate November here.

  • The Linnaeus University has two campuses located an hour and a half apart. One thing its web site is not well equipped to tell you is on which of these sites a given employee’s desk and mailbox are.

  • So weird reconnecting on Fb with an old school buddy after 25-30 years. I remember him as an adolescent. I have no idea what he looked like in his 20s and 30s. He now has a grey beard.

  • The Romanian Gypsies who have taken to begging in Swedish towns in recent years have characteristic looks and style of dress. Sometimes I come across them just walking about town or riding the subway, and I think to myself, “There’s a beggar who isn’t at work right now”.

  • Movie: Interstellar. Confused space drama with bad science, severe pacing issues and sappy emotionalism. Grade: Fail.

  • The expression “a member in good standing” is almost too easy to make a joke of.

  • Halfway through the Mahavishnu Orchestra’s “Dance of Maya” they break into a weird off-kilter blues jam that seems to be in 5/4 time. Love it!

  • People sell a lot of vegetables around Tunisia. I saw a man holding a gourd today. I really wanted to throw stones at him until he dropped the gourd and ran away. Then I could have shouted after him, “Look at you man! You’re a disgrace! It’s barely lunchtime and already you’re stoned right out of your fucking gourd!”






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  • This chocolate praline contains something that looks and smells like shampoo. Apparently it’s flavoured with elderflower extract.

  • Jrette prints out song lyrics and fixes them to the outside of the shower cubicle as aids to singing in the shower.

  • I’m kind of OK with most subcultural dress codes. But I really gotta say: young men wearing oversize baseball caps or stocking caps indoors look like they’re in Kindergarten.

  • I’m confused by the feminism that on one hand condemns the wearing of Hawaii shirts with beach babe cartoons, on the other hand organises proud plus-size burlesque shows. Would the shirt have been OK on a female Rosetta project member? What am I missing?

  • Bought Jrette two warm cotton nightgowns from Polarn & Pyret.

  • Manuscript reviewer: “Rundkvist criticises knowledge relativism, but still he proposes several weakly founded interpretations. He’s inconsistent!” Um… Do you even know what knowledge relativism means?

  • Drives me nuts when students pad their exam answers with tangentially relevant info that I have to wade through to see if they’ve actually responded to the fucking questions.

  • It’s snowing but the flakes melt before they reach the ground. I hate November here.

  • The Linnaeus University has two campuses located an hour and a half apart. One thing its web site is not well equipped to tell you is on which of these sites a given employee’s desk and mailbox are.

  • So weird reconnecting on Fb with an old school buddy after 25-30 years. I remember him as an adolescent. I have no idea what he looked like in his 20s and 30s. He now has a grey beard.

  • The Romanian Gypsies who have taken to begging in Swedish towns in recent years have characteristic looks and style of dress. Sometimes I come across them just walking about town or riding the subway, and I think to myself, “There’s a beggar who isn’t at work right now”.

  • Movie: Interstellar. Confused space drama with bad science, severe pacing issues and sappy emotionalism. Grade: Fail.

  • The expression “a member in good standing” is almost too easy to make a joke of.

  • Halfway through the Mahavishnu Orchestra’s “Dance of Maya” they break into a weird off-kilter blues jam that seems to be in 5/4 time. Love it!

  • People sell a lot of vegetables around Tunisia. I saw a man holding a gourd today. I really wanted to throw stones at him until he dropped the gourd and ran away. Then I could have shouted after him, “Look at you man! You’re a disgrace! It’s barely lunchtime and already you’re stoned right out of your fucking gourd!”






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