Monthly Archives: June 2007

Scrooge McD Nostalgia

By terje | Published: June 29, 2007
I bought the first volume of the Norwegian “Walt Disney’s Hall of Fame” today, a book that collects some of Don Rosa’s first and best Scrooge McDuck comics. I haven’t started on the comics themselves yet, as it had some snacks in the beginning that I have to read. One of these tasty little morsels [...]
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Mellom Slagene

By terje | Published: June 28, 2007
Grufullt lite foredrag jeg holdt på museet i kveld. Et språklig togkrasj, siden jeg skrev førsteutkastet på riksmål, før jeg plutselig innså at syntaksen min når jeg snakker er mer nynorsk, hvorpå et kaotisk og halvhjertet forsøk på å tilpasse stilen muntlig framføring oppsto. Som sagt, språket er katastrofe, innholdet noe bedre. Poster foreløpig tekst, så [...]
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I passed! I passed! Oh glorious day, I passed!

By terje | Published: June 22, 2007
Sure, I got an E, but I passed social scientific method! I’ll never have to bother with the crap again! NEVER!
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Sunshine

By terje | Published: June 21, 2007
Perhaps the only advantage of having to depend on a small town cinema during summers: I get the opportunity to watch movies I missed when they were screened in Trondheim. As was the case of “Sunshine“. In 2050, the Sun is about to stop burning, and a crew of astronauts and scientists are sent out to [...]
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Goldfinger

By terje | Published: June 19, 2007
It’s been more than a decade since the last time I watched “Goldfinger” — my favourite, along with “Golden Eye”, “In Her Majesty’s Secret Service”, and “Casino Royale” — but last Saturday I finally found the time again. In this the, umm, I think third or fourth Bond movie, 007 has to stop a fat old [...]
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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

By terje | Published: June 19, 2007
The object of observation last Friday: “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit“. Wallace and Gromit are doing quite well in their new jobs as pest controllers. Their village’s annual “giant vegetable competition” is close, and all the town’s inhabitants are eager to secure their services, in the hopes that Wallace and Gromit in turn [...]
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Dalek!

By terje | Published: June 19, 2007
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a couple of days now, but haven’t found the time for it until now. And while the immediacy of the post’ll be lost, compared to what it’d been if I’d written it when I should have, I feel it has to be said: I’ve used to make fun [...]
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Garden State

By terje | Published: June 19, 2007
I watched my favourite romantic comedy last Thursday: Zach Braff’s “Garden State”. (Eh, this one was written about one month ago; I must have forgotten to submit it…) It really is a magnificent little movie, which Braff not only wrote and directed, but also starred in. He played the main character, Andrew Largeman, a young man [...]
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“Gaid”

By terje | Published: June 19, 2007
I’ve finally taken my language-related snobbishness out into the open, primarily because the local newspaper recently titled me as “gaid” — a horrendous norwegianification of the English word “guide”, and an unnecessary one too, as we have the perfectly servicable synonym “omviser”. So, it might be that the Norwegian Council of Language has given the go-ahead [...]
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A “Tigana” related “whoa!”

By terje | Published: June 17, 2007
Perhaps it is because I am mentally exhausted after two very long, very straining tours earlier today, but I just had a whole new experience: I’ve never before — never ever — been touched to tears by exposition just 116 pages into a book. Never. Not until Baerd told Devin of the fate of Tigana and [...]
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