Something I think will delight you Anglos

In the Swedish version of facebook, you're not supposed to poke, but to "puff" your friends and family members. 

The end consumer gets serious

What an awful day yesterday was. 

John Hughes died. How he helped me through the teenage years. 

August 6th is always a weird date. I spend so many hours every year, thinking about Hiroshima. Thinking about the bomb, detonating 600 meters up in the air, taking about 100 000 people with it, most of them instantly, some of them later on. I wonder what it was like when it hit at 8:15 in the morning. The funniest girl in Hiroshima, the most handsome guy gone together in a blinding light. The ugly, the fat, the wise, the young the old, the mothers carrying their newborn, siblings fighting over a favorite toy, the ones who were eating, the ones cheating on their math test, the ones on swings, the ones gardening, the ones in the market, the ones having tea. 100 000 lives to end in a flash.  And how horrible for the folks of Nagasaki, reading about Hiroshima in the papers only to experience it first hand 3 days later. Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. 

August 6th. What a terrible, terrible day. 

A good thing happened yesterday though. Sonia Sotomayor!

Runners listen up

Run for your pick of my men. I'd run for any of these but had to pick one.

Dear parents

I want you to you know that the Spiderman suit protects children from direct sunlight, mosquito bites and light rain.

Ps. It says "dry clean only" on the laundry tag. As if. Wash away.

Dear Lisa Anne Auerbach

I want me some of that!

More on her, copied from tablet:

Lisa Anne Auerbach, 41, works in a unique medium: sweaters. They’re sweaters with messages knitted in, either through words (she has an “addiction to language”) or through images of icons like Barack Obama and Sandy Koufax. The Chicago-bred artist earned her MFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 1994, and she’s lived in California ever since. Many of her works are on display now through October at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. She’s also at work on a series of sweaters for a festival in Nottingham, England, inspired by Robin Hood and the Luddite rebellion which began there in 1811, in which, she says, she’ll be “recasting the merry men as this group of anarcho-feminists.” She explained six of her works to Tablet.

ps. Thank you Petra!

Dear blueberries

No kidding you're a super food, providing both nutrients and entertainment in one delicious little package.

Big love

Just back from tech detox in Åland: two weeks of no internet, tv, cell phone, computers or even hot water. But there were friends, kids, berries, lots of rye bread and sun. 

Missing in pic: Cutie Franka. She's there, but you can't see her. She's hiding right behind Anders. 

Here she is: