Yesterday, I had time to finish reading A Scanner Darkly, a novel by the american Science Fiction writer Philip K. Dick. I’ve read some of his stories and books many of which have been made into films. A few weeks ago, I read that there was coming yet another film based on one of Dick’s [...]
Having arrived safely in Manchester, I found my lodgings with little trouble. It’s in the Fallowfield area south of the university and the city centre. It’s a dirty old neighbourhood, a so-called “student ghetto”. The house I am to live in is also a dirty old place, but the people here are nice. Thomas, the [...]
I’ve been packing away my Science Fiction books before leaving for England. I have a not-so-secret passion for Science Fiction, and I especially like the sub-genre called “social science fiction”. Instead of focusing on the technological aspects of science, the genre mostly focuses on the social, politic and cultural implications that the future may bring. [...]
With the announcement of elections for the Danish parliament on February 8th, I’ve decided to dig up a little article that I wrote during the run-in to the American election. So far it’s in Danish only, as is most of the stuff I’ve written, but I might get around to translate it someday. Until then, [...]
Having read “The God of Small Things”, I decided to give some of Arundhati Roy’s essays a try. I found a neat little book called The Cost of Living containing two essays: One on the massive dam-building projects in India, and one on the nuclear bombs that both India and Pakistan now have in their [...]
I just finished reading Arundhati Roy’s “The God of Small Things” – which I remember hearing of when it was published 7 years ago, but never got around to look at. Since then, I’ve tried reading Salman Rushdie’s rather daunting prose (both Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses) but developed an intense dislike to his [...]
Traditionally, a blog is sort of a directory of odd, cool or outrageous things that somebody have spotted on the web and wanted to share. I’ll try to do a bit of that as well, even though there are places that are much better at that sort of thing. It is also part of the [...]
I don’t have any exams this semester which makes an interesting change. So while everybody around me are cramming for their various exams, I just do ordinary common people stuff like go to work and worry about the evils of this world – though those two are rarely directly related. I have two part time [...]
While I was in Spain this summer, I more or less accidentally stumbled upon the bargain of a lifetime: Interestingly enough, the receipt is from the “Torre de la Calahorra” – a museum in Córdoba dedicated to the Arabic cultural heritage in southern Spain. Did you know, that around the year 1100 AD, Córdoba was [...]
I’ve been messing around with the page template a bit, and have managed to produce a list of links for your viewing pleasure. I’ll be adding more in different categories later on. For now there’s just a few comics that I enjoy and some other (random) stuff. Have a look. I’ll write some proper introductions [...]