Life in Sweden: The Cavalry Arrives
Okay, so I'm going out from the apartment/studio to grab some lunch, and lo and behold:Sweden has been invaded by Kaiser Wilhelms! As uniforms go, you have to admit these are pretty lame (sorry,...
View ArticleSprucing Up
This weekend, Jan and I were out at the house, pouring concrete for our patio-type-area in the back, when I made an earth-shattering, two-part discovery (that will undoubtedly prove that I'm anything...
View ArticleMomondo: Swedish National Romantic Architecture
My latest momondo.com contribution has just been published, please check it out! This time, it's a sampling of some of the most intimidating buildings in Stockholm, all borne out of nationalistic...
View ArticleLife in Sweden: Secretive Suffrage
On Sunday I reached a happy milestone as a new citizen--I voted for the first time in Sweden!EU parliamentary elections were held, albeit with a disappointing turnout continent-wide. The process was...
View ArticleWhat I Did Over the Summer
Okay, so here's (largely) why I've been MIA for the past couple months:The Big Day is approaching, and we're getting close to being ready...But as I heard someone say somewhere at some point, "Excuses...
View ArticleObject of Jealous Rage: Sophie Blackall
I've harbored a continuous jealous rage over Ms. Blackall's books since Ruby's Wish--I mean, simply check out the Complete Awesomeness of the cover:But now Publishers Weekly tells me that she has a...
View ArticleLike Sands Through the Hourglass...
I love this YouTube clip of Kseniya Simonova's sand-art performance on the Ukrainian version of "America's Got Talent" because it collapses so many aspects of the picture-book process into a live,...
View ArticleMomondo: The Underground Art Scene
Just FYI, another piece of mine has just gone up on Momondo, this time about subway art.(Oh, and I think I forgot to mention this one about Stockholm's urban beaches, too...)
View ArticleCounterproductive Ads: Pigeon Fingers
I see so many wrong ads around the city, I figured I'd start pointing out Ads That Need Not Exist.Well, here's one I saw yesterday at Fältöversten:Really? Creepy hand-pigeons are good for selling...
View ArticleBooks on Display
Passing through Sturegallerian a few weeks ago, I came upon this store, just outside the entrance toward Stureplan:Yup, that pillar is made of books. I'm of two minds on this--on one hand, it's sort of...
View ArticleWe've All Got Baggage
My sister was in town for my wedding recently, and I went to pick her up at Central Station. While waiting for her, I couldn't help but admire the illustration on this safety sign:Watch out, Don...
View ArticleGoing Once...Going Twice...
It's really autumnal in Sweden right now--crisp air, changing leaves, the whole bit. So Jan and I spent the weekend out at the country house, and it's a lucky thing, too:We had forgotten, but Sunday...
View ArticleObject of Jealous Rage: Rene Engström
At dinner on Friday, a friend recommended I check out Rene Engström's Anders Loves Maria--about which, as usual, it seems I'm the last person to know. So of course I spent all afternoon yesterday...
View ArticleThe Great Pumpkin
Well, it's definitely November. There's been so little actual sunlight, my skin is becoming translucent. No, not the deathly pale skin that seems to be all the rage. More like Mr. Goodbody. But...
View ArticlePicture Book Economics
Here's an interesting piece by an agent about picture books, and the difficult economics involved...
View ArticleHappiness is...
Living far off in Sweden, I sometimes question whether my work has any impact at all. But then there are days like today.From Edson, in Alberta, Canada:Wildwood School's annual Christmas concert will...
View ArticlePeanut Quiz
I received another moment of awesomeness in the mailbox recently that I'd love to share*: a letter from Holland, a Peanut fan in Florida. Check it out.She even included a fabulous self-portrait:But the...
View ArticleSpotted!
Allow me to boast about one more, small moment of awesomeness...Take a good look at this page from a Swedish interiors magazine:Notice anything familiar? (Of course not. No worries. But I did!) Let's...
View ArticleBombs Away!
A friend forwarded me this adorable photo......and my immediate reaction was: OMG! That's Jack!See?Although I wasn't aware of it at the time that I came up with the cover, this phenomenon has a name:...
View ArticleGraffiti in Norway
Jan and I recently visited our close friends in Oslo, who are expecting a baby on Christmas Day (a girl!). A few hours before leaving, I slapped up a quick mural on the recently-painted baby room's...
View ArticleCult figures
My good friend Francis Strand has a terrific new blog, full of fascinating nuggets of queer trivia. Check it out!
View ArticleExtra, extra!
Today's Guardian includes an article on homophobia in which Yours Truly is quoted, and Gay America gets a mention. Read it here!
View ArticleFireside gchat
So, remember how I recently directed y'all to a new blog by Francis Strand? Well, he honored me with inclusion into the site - an IM interview about Gay America. It's fun and short, in line with the...
View ArticleImpressive impasto
So Jan and I were taking a lovely Sunday walk around town, and we walked past a gallery that I usually don't particularly like. But it currently has a show that literally stopped my in my tracks - we...
View ArticleThe DOMA Project
This week I contributed a short essay about my life with Jan in Sweden to The DOMA Project, a campaign focused on changing US immigration policy with regard to binational LGBT couples. Click here to...
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