Today's Topic

Edgar Allen Poe

Going to read a novel or 3 of his when I get home from work tonight, awesome writer.

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Berlingske Tidende

I canceled my subscription for the paper a few weeks ago, and now I'm starting to miss reading it together with my morning coffee, sigh

Episodik

Stumbled across this on Myspace today, decent and atmospheric electronically music, check it out!

More late topics

This ain't going so well is it? hehe, have had too much on my mind and been too much at work the last 2 weeks, so bear over with me!

Sunday: Crisis

In Brøndby IF, they lost yet a match today, 2-4 in Horsens, the 23. away league match without a victory, we need some ACTION NOW!!!

Saturday: Venison deer

Cooked some insanely tender and well tasting deer today.

Friday: Taking it easy

At work for once.

Thursday: Cherryblock

Tasted that insanely concentrated wine from California today, soooo much tannin, it did taste like cherry stalks, a wine you won't drink a lot of, it's simply too concentrated and rich.

Today's Topic

Metal

(Excessive blasting of all kinds of metal spiced up with a good slap of hours at work of course)

Topics from the last few days

Tuesday: Copenhagen

(My girlfriend moved over there to study)

Monday: Dessert competition

(Gonna give this one a shot)

Sunday: Relaxation

(Through food, Nip-Tuck and coziness)

Saturday: Brøndby IF

(Though the fuckers lost again, shit shit shit, fix things Bjerregård!!!)

Today's Topic

The Whisky Bible

(I just wish mr. Murray would get his excellent tasting notes online on the site)

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Succulents

(I've killed one, sigh)

Yesterday's topic

Champagne

(Going to a Louis Roederer tasting later this month, finally gonna taste Cristal, hell yea)

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Red Mullet

(My fishmonger couldn't get me these today, sigh)

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Getting back to work

(Doesn't it say it all)

A great site about the wines of Chateauneuf du Pape

This great website was featured in today's paper, and if you like me are interested in wine, you should find it interesting. The site is specialized in the wines of Chateauneuf du Pape from the Rhône region in France, usually great bodied complex wines with a lot of depth.

Check out the site and let yourself dive into a great universe of even greater wines.

Danish version: http://www.chateauneuf.dk/

English: version: http://www.chateauneuf.dk/en/front.htm

Green Bay Packers won last night, woot

Well, yes, it is the pre-season, though after having seen how the Steelers closed down the Saints last Sunday, in the Hall Of Fame match, I didn't expect Packers to take the win last night.

Green Bay won 13-9 on a 3 yard touchdown pass from Rodgers to Holiday, 2 field goals (52 and 32) and the extra point. Rodgers did best of the 3 QBs, completing 18/27 throws for 168 yards, Martin completed 1/2 throws for 7 yards and Captain B only completed 2/7 throws for 7 yards, with one fumble for -5 yards.

Steelers got a touchdown on a 50 yard throw from Batch to Young, Reed missed the XP and hit a 27 yards field goal.

In other games of interest Giants lost 21-24 to Panthers, Raiders won 27-23 over Cardinals and Redskins beat Titans 23-6, though Titans was a bit crippled as they still struggle with the Pacman Jones case and QB Vince Young (offense rookie of the year 2006/07) was sitting out as well, due to violating a team rule.

www.nfl.com

Today's Topic

Reality

(It's time to get back to it, sigh)

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Introspection

(Through the means that show themselves when needed)

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Insight

(Through excessive reading, thinking and musical onslaught)

Return of cold war tactics

This news story about the Russians flying to an US Airforce base in Guam in the Pacific Ocean made me giggle a bit, though also wonder if there is more to it, than the obvious wish from Russia to show, that they still have some goods left and apparently is ready to cross swords, if it becomes necessary.

Tupolev Tu-95 Bear which was the plane used for the operation can carry nukes and is the Russian counterpart to the B52 Stratofortress.

Dailylit

Sometimes one comes across good things surfing the net, like today, where I discovered the website Dailylit.com, a website that sends you small portions of books, either to your email address or as a RSS feed. You can choose to get the book portions send daily, weekdays or 3 days a week, and if you wish you can prompt to get the next installment of the book you are reading right away.

I've started out to read Homer's Iliad, via email, and have so far received 2 installments, and it works and seems sweet, and something I will continue with. A great way to get through classics and other works, small piece by small piece, without losing interest along the way.

There is a good deal of literature on the site, so there should be something for all, so drop by Dailylit.com and start reading and become even more educated!

Snarfer RSS reader

I've never had a real RSS reader before, I've just used Firefox to show RSS feeds, though that has started to become quite messy, the more feeds I find and use. So I started to look for a RSS reader, and stumbled across Snarfer and have just started using that, and so far it seems fine, though I need a week or 2 and to add all my own feeds into it, to see if it is as good as the first hand impression makes it seem. More about this later!

Today's Topic

Relaxation

(spiced with too much music, some writing, some reading... yes, can't help it... need to work a bit each day...)

1 year to the Olympic games kick off

Today there's exactly one year to the Olympic games kick off in China next year, already looking forward to it, though so much to follow until then. The 2007/08 European soccer season, the MLS as well it seems, after Beckham's transfer to LA Galaxy, NFL, NHL and the 2007/08 Danish ice hockey season.

The Olympic organization's website

Thought

How will I laugh tomorrow when I can't even smile today?!?!?!?

Cyco Mike Muir and Suicidal Tendencies still rock!!! http://www.myspace.com/suicidaltendencies

Books you should consider reading, if you have the time

Here is a couple of recommendations of books I've read lately.

Let's start of with the Swedish grand old man within the genre 'spy'-novels, Jan Guillou and his newest offering Madame Terror, a great written and told story, a great build up to a grand finale, with sheer excitement all the way through, hard to put down when first started. It's hard to go wrong with books in the Carl Hamilton series. The book is also a nice twist on the current political situation in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Guillou

A writer I've just lately run across is Daniel Silva, who writes spy-novels as well, centered around the Israeli agent/ex-agent Gabriel Allon. So far I've read The Confessor and Prince Of Fire, great, exciting and quite easy reading, again, books that are hard to put down, when first started.

http://www.danielsilvabooks.com/

Right now, among others, I'm reading Men Hating Women (direct translation from Swedish/Danish, as there isn't a English translation of the book yet, as far as I know) by Stieg Larsson, though now you have something to look forward to, he's a great writer who puts a lot of details into his work, haven't gotten that far into the book yet, but are really enjoying what I'm reading. So far there is 3 books in the series, he calls Millennium, Men Hating Women being the first.

http://www.stieglarsson.se/ http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stieg_Larsson (both links here in Swedish)

The restaurant has been awarded Wine Spectator's Award Of Excellence for the winelist

Awesome, check it out here!!!

Hmm, time to start things again

Just thought of this blog, about time to get some things going here again I think! Just been so damn busy the first half of this year, and guess the rest gonna be as busy, though I should manage to get a little time here and there to keep this up, in between my job... www.sangiovanni.dk