Monthly Archives: September 2007

2007-09-30 — Quote of the Day

By terje | Published: September 30, 2007
I snatch a time when I crouched outside the meadhall hearing the first strange hymns of the Shaper. Beauty! Holiness! How my heart rocked! He is dead. I should have captured him, teased him, tormented him, made a fool of him. I should have cracked his skull midsong and sent his blood spraying out wet [...]
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Seven things about me…

By terje | Published: September 30, 2007
I just noticed I got tagged with some kind of bloggy pass-it-on by Zhayena, and although I fear it might be a bit old (there weren’t really any apparent key stamps there, as far as I could see), here it is, seven more or less serious facts about me. I usually define myself out from [...]
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Ullr, the onion of war!

By terje | Published: September 29, 2007
From Wikipedia’s kenning article: Bárum Ullr, of alla ímunlauks, á hauka fjöllum Fyrisvalla fræ Hákonar ævi; nú hefr fólkstríðir Fróða fáglýjaðra þýja meldr í móður holdi mellu dolgs of folginn Simply based on meaning, i.e. without kennings, the passage runs: “Accursed King Harald! We carried gold in our arms during all of Hakon’s life; now the enemy of the people has hidden gold in [...]
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Gudenes Fall

By terje | Published: September 29, 2007
Gudenes Fall, by Cornelius Jakhelln. 2007, 428 pages. Now, this might be a little weird. Gudenes Fall (The Fall of the Gods) is a book that most likely never will be translated into English, and yet, I choose to review it in English. But hey, my English is still worse than my Norwegian. In the year 1000 AD, [...]
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Sigh…..

By terje | Published: September 29, 2007
I haven’t reviewed a single book in two months, while I at the same time haven’t read as many books in as short a time in years. Luckily, about half of these books were Harry Potter books, which I’ve read before, and I don’t review books I’ve read before. I probably could have left off terry [...]
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Red vs. Blue, season 1

By terje | Published: September 29, 2007
I never thought a show about a bunch of morons standing in the middle of nowhere, with a lot of heavy weaponry, could be this fun. Good stuff.
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Scrubs, season 5

By terje | Published: September 29, 2007
Yeah, yeah, I know: they’re occasionally repeating the same jokes, and the whole concept might be getting a tad tired. But I still love it. I still think it’s fun to watch the Janitor torment JD, I still laugh when Turk tries to stand up to Carla, I still pity JD one moment only to hate [...]
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2007-09-29 — Quote of the Day

By terje | Published: September 29, 2007
“I repeat Sturgeon’s Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of it is crud. The Revelation: Ninety percent of everything is crud.” – Theodore Sturgeon, Venture Science [...]
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Ugly Betty, season 1

By terje | Published: September 29, 2007
What a nice little show! Or, perhaps, what a nice, bug (edit: this is obviously supposed to be “big”, but I think the typo’s amusing enough to be spard correction) show, as it’s a 23 episodes long season, with 42-minutes long episodes. Well, no matter its size, the fact remains that its a nice one. The characters were [...]
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