http://www.simplecommonsense.co.uk/blog Christian Halsted Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:18:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some books seem essential in the modern Western world; Let this be Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice, Voltaire’s Candide or Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. All of them are seen as important to our society and its literary maturation. I haven’t read any of the above-mentioned books though, but I’ve started reading ... http://www.simplecommonsense.co.uk/blog/2008/08/12/1298847000/ All my respect to women. Then it’s said. But flicking through my firefox bookmarks the other day I stumbled over something rather awkward. When reading the news The Guardian and The Times are usually my favoured. I know: Labour vs. Conservatives (Rusbrigder – Harding) - and bla bla bla. My stumbling ... http://www.simplecommonsense.co.uk/blog/2008/08/05/katie-wants-an-invite-right-now-please/ As written in may last post, Copenhagen Fashion Week will cast a glum shadow over the pretty and deserted streets of wonderous Copenhagen in a few days. As my position as anthropology student is far away from the press or fashion buyers, I haven't got much to do with it ... http://www.simplecommonsense.co.uk/blog/2008/08/04/the-hype-and-the-hullabaloo/ Denmark is 30 degrees these days. It’s hot; it’s beautiful; and most importantly incredibly relaxing. It seems like everybody is in a trance of lackadaisical summer mode where time is as unimportant as which hand you decide to scratch your crotch with. In Denmark this means beer, meat and another ... http://www.simplecommonsense.co.uk/blog/2008/07/26/time-is-on-my-side/ Back in Denmark, few things is as enjoyable as Rørvig, even though it seems like half of all Charlottenlund's families (a wealthy surburb to Copenhagen) are buying a house up there these days. Hopefully Rørvig won't become the new Hornbœk, and my plan is to restrict Rørvig house-buyers to hillbillies ... http://www.simplecommonsense.co.uk/blog/2008/07/22/espana-pt-2-malaga/ For most people a trip to Spain in July equals lots of pork, cheap lambrusco and Chesterfield cigarettes. People from Scandinavia, Germany and England make each year thousands of peregrinations to enjoy some sun and warmth - and you probably can't find anywhere else in Europe with such good chances ... http://www.simplecommonsense.co.uk/blog/2008/07/21/espana-pt-1/ Eric Cartman of South Park can finally agree upon something with God; Hippies. "Hippies. They're everywhere, They wanna save the world, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad". And go to festivals, I might add to Cartman's classic itch. Anyhow, it seems like the same interpretation God ... http://www.simplecommonsense.co.uk/blog/2008/06/28/a-hard-rains-a-gonna-fall/ As Darwin and Wallace's theory suggests, more creatures in a population are born than can survive. This is the struggle for existence. So when some 10.000 Chinese decides to settle elsewhere - in this case South Africa - the colonialists must react. That's pretty fair isn't it? First they reacted ... http://www.simplecommonsense.co.uk/blog/2008/06/26/alien-in-pretoria/ I am not the biggest political activist, nor do I follow the US election that intense as I feel I should. Nonetheless, I can't bear the look of John McCain. It seems many Americans think of him as a lovable patriot with a maverick streak: The war hero of Vietnam, ... http://www.simplecommonsense.co.uk/blog/2008/06/25/in-masquerade-my-political-comment/ I have a little fling for human and social sciences these days. Let it be sociology, philosophy, anthropology or linguistics - you name it... I am not sure why I like it or why it fascinates me, but sometimes I think it is because it doesn't give me any real ... http://www.simplecommonsense.co.uk/blog/2008/06/12/curious-of-curiosity/ It's a scary time we're living in. First some crazy geezer blows himself and his non-democratic corpus up in front of the Danish Embassy in Pakistan. Then a Japanese guy makes a real life 'Falling Down' scene, as was he Michael Douglas, when he launched into a stabbing frenzy on ... http://www.simplecommonsense.co.uk/blog/2008/06/11/wicked-thing/ I am now back in Copenhagen for a little summer vacation, where I am currently enjoying the 25 degrees and blue sky. Quite opposite from what I came from in London where it was raining and windy most of the last days I enjoyed in The Old Smoke. Enough about the ... http://www.simplecommonsense.co.uk/blog/2008/06/06/k%c3%b8benhavn-helt-sikkert/