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August 27, 2019
Cord and Nenn: an awkward interview
Yours truly, a well-seasoned journalist and writer, greatly enjoyed Clayton Snyder’s River of Thieves and decided to interview the main characters, Cord and Nenn. Unfortunately some notes might have been misplaced… An awkward, unedited transcript follows. BL: Welcome to LRSN FM! Today we have the most special guest for you: Mademoiselle Nenne du Corduroy […]
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August 10, 2019
Real life is happening
I’ve been quiet. I haven’t been posting quality content which could go viral and make me Internet-famous, possibly an influencer, advertising… uh… trips to Iceland at €1 million per sentence. Husby and I were busy with real life. In a nice way. Surgery Battle of the month! It looks like my fifth (I couldn’t […]
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August 4, 2019
When you’re on social media
A while ago Pet Shop Boys released their latest EP, Agenda, featuring the song ‘On social media’. I recommend watching the entire video, it’s fantastic. When you care about the issues of the day And check your facts on Wikipedia You can and get into an argument right away If you’re on social media […]
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July 20, 2019
Spooning around
First things first: the blog tour organised by Rachel’s Random Resources is now over, it went swimmingly, and I recommend Rachel’s services to everyone who needs to get thoroughly blog toured. Thanks so much to everyone involved for giving me your time and space on your blogs! A blog tour in itself is a very […]
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June 30, 2019
Gods laugh at plans of mice and men
Tomorrow is the first day of the Storytellers blog tour, which means that for ten days, every day, three book bloggers will be posting their reviews and or excerpts from the book, interviews, plus two guest posts written by yours truly. The goal of a tour is to increase the visibility both of my book’s […]
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June 26, 2019
Extinction is not political
I don’t write about politics on this blog. There is exactly one topic that is considered political I will not shut up about, though – the climate crisis, or rather the climate catastrophe. We are way beyond “climate change” – it had already changed. It is not done changing. Why “considered”? Because no matter what the […]
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June 17, 2019
Independent people
Today is Icelandic National Day (Þjóðhátíðardagurinn), also known as the 75th anniversary of Iceland becoming a republic independent from Denmark. As it happens, two years ago we were in Iceland on that day. We missed everything. When I first came to Amsterdam, the Pride canal parade was taking place. I spent the entire day record […]
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June 1, 2019
10 things I don’t understand
There are things that I don’t understand hanging over the 3D world in 2019 like a cloud of smog. Here’s my top 10… and yes, it might be controversial… I ask a few questions as well, they’re not sarcastic, I’d love to know if you have answers to them. #Influencers I am aware of the phenomenon […]
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May 27, 2019
A Special Communication from Bjørnheimr
It’s not you, it’s me. I know I’ve been quiet. I’m going to do my best to improve communication between us from now on, ‘k? I’ve been going to therapy and I feel I’m almost ready to…you know? You don’t know? Communication, Bjørn… well… yeah, I’m almost ready to commit to posting on the blog […]
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May 14, 2019
Terschelling: a retreat
My greatest wish is to live in a log cabin in the middle of nowhere. As of right now, we live in an apartment near the centre of Amsterdam. Every now and then I need an escape, and this time we went to a holiday island – Terschelling. The Netherlands is a small country with […]
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