A Mixed Bag

Partiet Tomma Stolarna (Demokraterna) Detta parti vill verka för en enda sak: Motverka korruption och girighet inom svensk politik! Detta ska göras genom att verka för att a) antalet platser i politiska församlingar på riks, landstings och kommunnivå ska halveras b) varje politikers arvode ska halveras så långt det är möjligt, oavsett nivå och befattning. Detta inkluderar sådant som lön, fallskärmsavtal, partistöd och andra typer av stöd till politiska befattningar och partier via offentliga medel. Det är viktigt att påpeka att denna enda målsättning inte grundar sig på politikerförakt eller missaktning för vår demokrati. Nej, närmast tvärtom. Vi anser att ett parti av vår sort behövs för att den nödvändiga politik som är tänkt att genomföras i vårt land ska hålla sig sund och korruptionsfri. Vi vill vara en motpol mot de destruktiva tendenser i form av exempelvis girighet och överflödig byråkrati som politiken och politikern alltid behöver kämpa emot och vi vill se oss som en utsträ...

Taskmaster has ended up as one of my absolute favorite shows on television. One of the reasons for this is because it is so difficult to box it into a given category of light entertainment shows on television. On paper I suppose it is seen as a panel show, but it could just as easily be seen as a form of sitcom or perhaps a reality show to some degree. Or why not a sports series? The appeal of following Taskmaster to me is that in part it doesn't feel like watching a television show, you peak into a whole universe of its own.  * Taskmaster is created by the comedian Alex Horne , who also serves as the taskmaster's assistant  and the show saw its premiere in 2015 in the UK. Shortly thereafter the concept spread around the globe and currently there have been 13 countries airing their own version of the show, among them Bäst i Test (BiT)  here in Sweden and when it comes to the reviewing part I will limit myself to the original UK version and BiT, the other international ve...

I have written the essence of this text before in Swedish back on ASA , but I wish to take yet another take on the subject of psychedelics. In any case, those texts were written in a personal paradigm of mine where I thought I would be able to enjoy psychedelics in numerous ways plenty of times during my lifetime. It didn't really turn out that way. My conscious journey on that particular road has stopped - so my personal question is, what and who is Lucy to me when I'm forced to stay on the sideline of it all?  * First things first: My personal criteria for what is to be considered a substance worthy of being called psychedelics is rather strict. A psychedelic substance can't be a challenge to the body in a physical sense, there can't be any risks of causing physical harm to oneself if one would overdose a few units over the recommended amount. Remember that everything can be dangerous or lethal if you take enough of it, I'm not saying that it should be safe to tak...

Something is structurally wrong with existence. "Wrong" might be an inappropriate term for what I'm trying to say below, but if we let feelings be feelings this is certainly how this particular emotion wishes to express itself.  Yes, please be aware that this will be a text coming a bit from the left side of the scope of this project. I may seem to contradict some of my other writings when expressing this particular thought and I just want to say that I'm aware of that possibility. Since this blog has multiple purposes this is destined to occur and this text will fall under the purpose of therapy writing and if the content coming out of me goes in contrast to the purpose of developing GoG , so be it. In that case it will be a problem for a future self. * I hate the fact that one can do everything in one's might, pour out one's soul and all of one's energy, indeed really, truly doing one's best and the result one get may still be absolutely abysmal, or ...

This is a resumé*, a CV , but a resumé that I don't care about sending out toward the employment world. Nay, this is my attempt to "tallify" my life in a way I myself care about and the reason I am making it public is to make it possible for people out there to be inspired to do the same. Don't care to much about my categories, structure up your own if you need to - but if life is a game, or a set of games, be aware of which ones you are participating in, which ones you are doing well in and which ones you want to improve or leave behind. To come closer to playing GoG in a decent fashion I would imagine this is a crucial step.  But since this is by its very nature quite close to the region of private stuff I will strive to write in code and the actual content below won't likely be very interesting.  Anyhow. *    Birds  Boats: 5 (L, V, Z, F, R) FB: 6 (V, Z, L, F, H, R) HR: 4 (V, Z, H, R) Ownership: 1 (2022) Locations and visits  Addresses: 7 (S, T, K1, K2, ...

Disclaimer: Please be aware of the fact that in a commentary such as this series, "spoilers" may be plentiful. This may go without saying, but for this show I still want to explicitly point it out.   * At first viewing,  How I Met Your Mother (HIMYM) didn't seem very special. It's premiere was shortly after Friends had wrapped up their business and this was yet another show set in New York (were there no other cities in the US at all?) circling around the lives of a young group of friends. The main difference seemed to be that the gang in HIMYM frequented a bar instead of a coffee shop but other than that it was hard to not dismiss the show as some form of rip off of what had come just before it. "Make up your own format, dude." Adding to that, the premise was that we as an audience were forced to listen to an older version of the main character taking an awfully  long time to answer the question of the show's title. Season after season we were baited wi...

If I had to choose one sitcom to pick as the king among them, I would have to choose Scrubs.  It's the show I would like to have written, it's absolutely the one I often imagined myself participating in, in one role or another. Then again, I don't think you can select a single sitcom as the best in general, no one of these shows I love is perfect and neither is Scrubs which will become apparent below.  Also, I'm biased, Scrubs is "my" show in terms of age - in its run I'm a teenager and a young adult. Me and my friends adopt the show as ours and during the years we quote stuff from the series endlessly. "Eagle", "Brown bear" "So's your face" et cetera are staples within the banter in our group. My way of looking at the shows original run on air is undeniably through rose tainted glasses - it wouldn't really be fair to all the others if this would be cleared out as the best among them, but it is indeed my personal favor...