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After a week of traveling, sightseeing and meeting the pope, it’ll be great to relax a little. That is, after the two birthday parties this weekend..I clicked through all the photos from the trip this morning, 1010 in total, some of which will appear on my flickr stream in due time. Let me assure you: […]

Bollocks to this, I’m off to Rome…

This year’s prank was listed on aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com: "Sigg3’s vulgar blog sold to online car dealer, in order to retire back to nature." Please find me in their list (currently I’m on page 4 of 2008) and give me your vote. Today I was asked to make posters for a First Aid course. Guess which was […]

My regular readers know that I, after five years, are growing more than tired of the blogging hysteria. I have my work to do in academic philosophy, in addition to three literary projects I have been working on for longer than I care to remember. Last year I bought the old cabin from my grandmother […]

It’s Easter again and getting into the spirit of things, I decided to update my 50 Pictures of Jesus with an additional 50 pictures. I know what you’re thinking right now. You’re all "How’s that even possible?", and let me tell you that it almost isn’t. And in addition to that simple fact, I have […]

I’m half-delirious and half-asleep. I stayed up all night doing a job that couldn’t wait and I was in bed around 3:30 am. I had a nightmare about the Norwegian prime minister chasing me around. Then I had to get up at regular hours to catch the same client and finish the job because she […]

My brother‘s doing just fine, and today he even turned 21 years old the lil’ git! Happy birthday to KOEW! He’s growing up, no doubt about it. Feels like yesterday was just a few days ago. Have a good one!

For once I have pretty recent films in my roundup. This is mostly due to the mysterious mr. S who keeps calling me Fridays prior to Troll i eske (en. Jack-in-the-box), a feature of The Oslo Cinemateque, asking me whether I’m up for it this Sunday. And I usually am. Going to a full cinema […]

November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008 I remember him as Dr. Heywood in 2010: The Year we make Contact, which has always been an inspiration to me. Other movies that stand out are The French Connection, Jaws and Naked Lunch. Apparently he was also supposed to star as Rambo in First Blood and Michael […]