Weblog | I don't like the word blog, it's ugly. Anyway, new content happens here. (Swedish dito)

About me and the site | Twenty-something male who likes text. Obsessed with things such as books, reality, communication, and one or two tv-shows.

Archives | Things written here since... well, 2001. Some of it is good, some is utter shait.

Books | Books read, not books written. So far I've struggled to maintain unpublished.

Photo | I like my camera and it likes me.

Links | Outwards, away, flee.

e-mail | J. Nicklas Andersson

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The Ackroyd Show

What? Peter Ackroyd has been allowed to do a tv show about London for the Beeb? I’m speechless, but not really surprised. I just wish I’ll be able to see it within five years or so.

A thin paperback

It’s that time of the year. After flipping up and down on So New Media, PS Publishing and Tense forms, my fingers have started to itch. Not just my fingers. Even my ears and toes are in on it. They all want the same thing, and so do I. I really really consider the option of starting up a small press — in the minimal format that is. I guess some thoughts and ideas jusdt won’t leave you alone.

Saturday fun

There are different ways to spend a Saturday evening. You can do things that are fun as well as being bored to death. If the later, you’ll try anything to get out of it. Anything. I wasn’t there, but I guess I got pretty close. How else can I explain why I sat down and made the stick figure?

Quicksilver

People have said that the new Neal Stephenson book (Quicksilver — big and cover in silverish grey) doesn’t have anything in common with science fiction at all. These people also claims that it is a non-genre book, but that’s obviously because they miss the finer points of genreness definition. The book in question has two — I’ve counted them — maps. It’s clearly fantasy, no doubt about it. Oh, the the main charatcer is called Enoch. Gee, supernatural in volume two or three? Yeah. Probably not lots of much, but some must occur.

The Twins Effect

The trailer was wrong. Way wrong, mostly because this isn’t an action-movie. It is an action-comedy with a large portion of it belonging to a romantic subplot. While I really would like to see the movie they promoted in the trailer, I honestly believe the actual result was better. It wasn’t overly Matrixy (as I feared it would be), and while there where things that seemed borrowed from Blade, they did use it differently. In the end, it was more about the characters than the nifty action or the expensive pixel-layer. I liked it whole lot.

And was it just me or did anyone else have a “Oooo! Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back”-moment when Reeve enters the church with his lightsaber collapsable sword in his belt?

Real-life gaming

While Human Chess seems like a fun idea, I’m much moreinterested in Kevan’s extrapolating of the idea into a real-life version of Mornington Crescent. I’ve had similar thoughts, but me being rather far away from London has given these a slight set-back.

A Mike Poem

This oldish poem by John M Ford makes me wish that I didn’t have a Moorcock blocking up the que. It produced the kind of feeling that I almost had to run across the room and rumage through the pocket-box and dig up some of his novels.

My sick brain and I

I did the Human Virus Scanner-test and it pretty much ended up as I expected. Except for the Hippyage, USA and Goth — but hey, whose being picky here?

Viruses you suffer from: Linux, Sci-fi, Cthulhu, Gaming, Discordia, Windows, Politics, Brand Names. Viruses you might suffer from: USA (70%), Goth (65%), Industrial (70%), vi (90%), Conspiracy Theory (90%), Macintosh (80%), Hippyism (73%).

However, one of these things had an intersting cure. Under Cthulhu they said “Read some Enid Blyton.” And boy, was that wrong thing to do. I just had to write a Cthulhu and the Five crossover. My first ever fanfic. May God have mercy upon my soul.

I like my brain.

Buffy season 7 on dvd

Fuck. [via Whedonesque]

Alias

Why didn’t someone (i.e. you. Yes, you) tell me Alias is about to begin on TV4 at 20:00 today? Is it too much to ask for? Is it? Well, it seems like it from here.