For about five years (that’d be seven minus the two I lived in Finland) I’ve played rinkbandy with a bunch of guys north of Stockholm. It’s a nice recreational league of something I consider to be a recreational sport; something that’s a pleasure to play, but not enough to try to make a career in.
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INT. SAUNA AT THE GYM – NIGHT
Two naked men, JANNE and TOMAS, sit high up on the sauna bench. They stare ahead. Both are silent.
Nausea invaded my stomach and my knees went weak. I could see Coach Williams walking towards me with his arms open wide.
“Holy shit, kid! I never thought I’d see this day,” he yelled. Coach Williams was a big man, and when he hugged me, you couldn’t basically see me at all. I simply disappeared in Coach’s embrace.
“The Finnish journalist reveals his favorite hockey movie. You might be surprised…”
More after the jump.
Weird Al gone bad. Well, no, he did “Bad” a long time ago. Here he is, white and nerdy.
Lyrics after the jump.
My wife asked me the other day, “Are all your sentences going to start with ‘I heard a great podcast today’?” The way things are going, yes, that’s about right.
I know it sounds a little fishy. In fact, somebody said that to me a few months ago. He said, “I’ve never heard anyone use a podcast as a reference before.”
Stockholm is a beautiful city. I just walked through Kungsträdgården in downtown Stockholm. Kids were skating around, screaming and having fun – with helmets on, naturally – in the sun, and it just made me want to jump in, and maybe do a lutz or an axel.
Like this guy. And yes, he is skating in Kungsträdgården in Stockholm.
It was much colder this time last year.
SC Langnau and SC Bern, the two hockey teams based in Bern, Switzerland, broke the European attendance record for one game yesterday when over 30 000 people (30 076) witnessed their derby at the Stade de Suisse stadium.
Why is it that few artists remain as successful on their solo careers as when they’re in a band? The first ones that come to mind are The Beatles. No matter what you think of Imagine, or Got My Mind Set On You, or anything by the Wings, I think we can agree that the Beatles was greater than the sum of their parts.
Inspired by the previous post, I bought a newspaper yesterday, and walked into the Coffeehouse By George at Odenplan, got myself a cappuccino, and sat down to read the paper.