Quarantine And Chill

March 16th, 2020

When the clock strikes twelve, the world will turn into
8/3 2020

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Today will be a good day. Happy Mio Monday everyone.

9/3 2020

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Good goat times today. Started out with a very light rain. But eventually it cleared up and we got some lovely sunshine. Until a heavier downpour on my walk home. The circle of weather.
Happy to take the goats out. Trying to contain the rising infestiation of greenery. Yeah, the goats still don’t understand the concept of letting it grow so there’s more of it. But hey, i’m the same way. Gotte eat the whole pizza right away. No time to lose!
Met so cute (human) kids who got to pet the goats through the fence too. And there was a guy with some kind of electric instrument, I’m not sure exactly what he was doing. Cutting branches maybe? But it was funny because he would stop and start the tool and it would make noise that scared the goats, but not enough to completely terrify them. So they would be grazing and the noise started and they’d run in terror.. for about 5 steps, then the noise stopped and they stopped and were like “Oh I guess it wasn’t the end of the world” and they’d continue grazing and then the noise started and they’d run another five stpes “OH NO, IT IS THE END OF THE WORLD… oh nevermind it stopped”. And that cycle would continue for a while.
Bravely brave sir Milo ran away away
I didn’t!
He turned and he ran away and
I did not!
He fled and ran for his life and
I NEVER
…sorry, things took a turn for the Monty Python.
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Goat butt parade

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That thing when you’re standing in line in the supermarket and the kid next to you keeps coughing all over the place.
Welp. Pretty sure I have the coronavirus now.
I joke about the coronavirus, but it is serious. And I’m not not worried. My family is in pretty poor health, if we were to get it we’d be wiped out I’m pretty sure. Coincidentally my parents just back from a trip.. They didn’t go abroad, but still. You know. I wouldn’t really care if I got it, but I’d be crushed if the folks did. I wouldn’t do well in a quarantine either.
But still, you gotta laugh. When you have fucking world leaders who want to keep sick people on a boat so they don’t count in the statistics. What’s next, ship infected people to shithole countries so you can brag about keeping America clean? Goddamn motherf
but I digress. Luckily I spend very little time wiht humans, so as long as goats aren’t carriers and my pizza place keeps delivering, I’m probably fine.
9/3 2020

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Rest in peace Max von Sydow. An absolutely legend of an actor. In Denmark he is probably best know, at least if you’re a little older, for his academy award nominated role in the Danish movie Pelle The Conqueror. He had one of those faces that just… tells stories. You could sit him in a chair and just look at him. It would still be fascinating.
Bit of trivia: In Pelle The conqueror his character is named Lasse. And called Lassefar. Which translates to something like Lassefather. And back when I was a schoolboy my gym teacher though it was hilarious to come up with a dumb rhyme using that name for me. Which would have been totes awsome if it wasn’t for the fact that I was already plagued by insecutires and deadly afraid of attention and gym class was already a nightmare for me. But hey. That’s neither here not there.
von Sydow is a true legend of the arts.
9/3 2020

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Caught a Milo. And dropped the winter coat for a while again.

9/3 2020

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Today will be a good day. HappY Yogi Day everyone.

10/3 2020

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Just to clarify… it’s a good idea not to touch your face too much to avoid the virus right? But I can still go around and touch other people’s faces? Because otherwise I’m going to need to find a new hobby.
10/3 2020

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I’m still pissed they canceled The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Honestly, I’d rather they’d continued that storyline than more movies. Although to be fair I haven’t watched Dark Fate yet.
This scene is still one of my favourite tv moments ever. The muted gunshots in the background as bodies fall into the pool.. dark.

10/3 2020

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Someone call the cops, Sky escaped from the pen!

10/3 2020

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Nuller is back on this throne.

11/3 2020

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Today will be a good day. Happy Hump Day everyone.

11/3 2020

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Goat butt parade.

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fyi if I hear you coughing I’m unfriending you
11/3 2020

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Danish Prime Minister just addressed the nation. “We have to stand together”. Ehm yes. Just not too close together, ok?
Seems they are shutting down schools and non-essential public functions. Encouraging people to work from home. Suggesting that people don’t meet in groups over 100 people. May be an actual ban coming soon.
Things are pretty serious. There will be businesses going under and people losing their jobs over this. Just a matter of time before we get our first deaths I suppose. Hope it won’t get too bad.
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Ugh. Reading r/Denmark right now isn’t fun. Looks like people went straight to shops to start hoarding. Reports of stores literally emptied. Pictures of crowds. Great idea, let’s gather together in a big crowd to get supplies for our isolation…
Sheesh. I wonder if there will even be anything left tomorrow. I just want like a pack of spaghetti and a pack of toilet paper.
Italy’s been on lockdown and there’s still no shortage of food, they’re closing down stores and businesses, but food stores are going to stay open. People need to calm the fork down. There’s plenty for everyone if people don’t go nuts. Ugh. People are the worst.
I might just hibernate for a couple of weeks and hope it’ll all have blown over.
Hope you all everybuddies are doing okay wherever you are. Don’t worry, be happy. Happy birthday Bobby McFerrin.
11/3 2020

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Today will be a good day. Here’s Popcorn from 2015.

12/3 2020

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Let me just turn on the news and see if they’re talking about the Corona vi

12/3 2020

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Welp. Danish soccer league shuts down for the next two weeks, at least. Same with the other sports. Same with everything.
Man, it’s easy to be gripped by the panic. Even for someone who is used to a great deal of isolation. I’m not exactly a flock animal. Not a human flock anyway.
Well, we’ll see how it goes. I’m not panicking. But I am worried and feeling the tension. I think i’m mostly worried about my dad. He goes out a lot, works part time in a store, out in busses and downtown a lot. I’m not sure telling him to stay at home will work…
Also slightly worried about the shops. I had been planning to do a little shopping today. But I think I’ll wait. I honestly have no idea if I’d be walking into a completely normal store or a completely empty one. The government and the stores say there will be no food shortage, there’s plenty of everything. But after the press conference last night people went out on panicked shopping sprees. I’ve seen videos and photos of almost empty stores. At the very least I imagine if I go out shopping now it will be full of people, which is potentially risky and also triggering for all my anxiety. Hopefully the hoarders can stock up on everything and then in a day or two the rest of us can shop normally.
I am in the high risk zone and our prime minister has told people in the high risk zone to stay at home if possible. So now I finally have an official excuse.
The hood is probably going to be crowded with kids and scary teens who can’t go to school for the next two weeks too.
Hopefully my pizza place will stay open and delivering.
Blimey. I can’t recall anytihng like this happening in Denmark in my lifetime.
Sorry. Just had to get that all off my chest. Gonna be a fun couple of weeks ahead..
12/3 2020

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A message from four years ago
link: OK video
12/3 2020

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Well, I am going to go to bed early today. I’m going to hibernate and go for a long dreamwalk. And then I’ll see if the world is still here tomorrow. I will isolate myself with the angels and demosn of the dreams, the monsters and the fairies, and their tales. Better to go adventuring than to sit and get stressed with paranoia.
Stay safe and healthy out there!
12/3 2020

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Today will be a good day. Here are the Ping Pong twins from 2016

13/3 2020

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Well, I went shopping. And survived.
I was a little afeared of what to expect. But it was fine. I’m not going to say everything was normal. It was more crowded than normal. And there were som shelves that were less well stocked than usual. But everything was calm and I was able to get everything I needed without problems. I was running low on toilet paper, and after hearing about how everyone was hoarding the stuff I did wonder.. so I went straight to the tp first.. and there was plenty. Really, the only sign that this wasn’t just a normal, busy holiday shopping day was that the cashiers were wearing rubber gloves.
It was probably a good idea to wait a couple of days until I wents hopping. And hopefully everything will stay normal now. It’s going to be a weird couple of weeks with everything shut down and all the speculation and worry, but hopefully that’s as bad as it’ll get.
There IS something else, very serious, going on. But i’ am not ready to talk about that just yet I think (it’s not about me, I am ok).
Hope you’re all doing fine out there. I did hear one of my neighbours coughing outside my front door, so you know. Thoughts and prayers please.
13/3 2020

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Well. Denmark is closing its borders now. So, if you were planning to attend my birthday party. Ya caint.
What a surreal time. here’s hoping it’ll get better, not worse.
13/3 2020

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You can say a lot about Jason Voorhees. But he IS wearing a face mask. Safety first! Happy Friday the 13th.
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Bruce and Clark from 2014.

14/3 2020

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You really, really gotta wonder. When Trump goes out, in a moment of crisis, and delivers completely false information stright to the face of America. Is he lying? Or incompetent? I honestly can’t fathom how anyone in position of leadership can just go out and say that Google is working with the government to build a website to help determine if people need a corona test. Or whatever the fuck the actual quote was, I can’t be bothered doing that. The fact is, Google is not doing that. Some company is doing some website for the Bay area, which I guess is a geographical location in America? Don’t at me.
But how does it happen? Are his people giving him bad information? Is he misunderstanding the information? Is it hte same thing when he said that soon there would be zero infections? Is it because he just WANTS it to be true and he just says it? I just don’t understand it. It’s a fucking state of emergency and he goes out and gives verifiably wrong information on the record.
Did google lie to him? Thinking that he wouldn’t say it in public so they wouldn’t have or refute it, which they have done?
I just for the love of all that’s holy don’t understand how anyone can be so irresponsible and dumb. At a time like this.
And there’s lots of other dumb shit you could start berating him over. But this is just so in-your-face factually wrong. I just don’t understand. I’m not expecting Trump to be an expert on any of this, heck it’s a difficult situation for everyone. You can’t fudge this with ‘alternative facts’ or ‘lamestream fake news’. I’d like to see what fucking excuse republicans would come up with this time?
And the speech he did the other day which also had factual mistakes. Or was it the teleprompter malfunctioning? Who the fuck knows. What a fucking time to have an incompetent leadership. Can you imagine if a country like America ends up in the same kind of straits as Italy? If things go that bad under that kind of leadership? I really hope it doesn’t go that bad for you, but what a nightmare. It’s bad enough alerady.
And how the fuck does Kushner have time to deal with coronavirus, isn’t he busy solvign the middle-east?
14/3 2020

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What the duck?

14/3 2020

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Landscapers hard at work

14/3 2020

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That thing when you’re not allowed to touch your face but you constantly feel the need to grab your head in despair.
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I just love goat yawns. When their bottom jaw (I just realised.. the jaw is the bottom, isn’t it? You don’t have a top jaw, do you? Or do you? What’s the top of the.. jaw called? Damn I shouldn’t have started drinking hand sanitizer already..) ANYWAY when the jaw slides out to the side like this gets me every time.
And I agree with Sky. I am tired. Of everything. I am going to go to bed early again. Sleep along to the sound of dream-ocean waves.
Tomorrow is the big day. That’s right. Leftover Pi Day!
See you tomorrow, bring cake.

14/3 2020

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Today will be a good day. Happy Funday everyone!

15/3 2020

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Good birthdaytimes today. Back from a soup party with the fambly.
I had originally been planning to throw a massive birthday party and invite 1000 people. Then the government came out and banned gatherings of a 1000 people or more. Oh darn, I thought, well then I’ll just narrow it down to a select 100 of my closest personal friends. Then the government came out and banned gatherings of 100 and more. Fork it ,I thought. Let’s just keep it to my parents and brother then.
Twas a good time and I got just what I wished for. A fridge full of leftover soup. Neatly wrapped in a bow.
42. Honestly, I never thought I’d make it this far.
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My parents told a funny story while we were having soup. Back before my brother was born, when I was around 1½ years old, we were on vacation in Sweden. We used to go on vacation in Sweden almost yearly thing for us. And it often involved picking berries if there was the chance. My dad has always been into that. So at this particualr time he was out picking blueberries. And he was also looking after me. And mom told him to keep a close eye on me. Which turned out not to be hard, because apparently I walked along with my dad, between his legs almost, and ate all the berries he picked! Haha. I guess he had a bowl or something and everytime he put berries in it I’d grab ’em and eat ’em. Beats picking them yourself I guess. that must have been a funny sight. And I have to think, that’s a little goatlike isn’t it? I can just imagine me out picking berries and Nuller walking along between my legs eating all the berries as soon as I got them.
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That’s all for now.


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Sunny Heat

March 8th, 2020

I forgot to put up a goat post this morning! Bad form, me.
Happy Mio Monday everyone.

2/3 2020

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Good goat times today. Finally, finally back. So good. I think the goats were happy to be let out of their pen too. They did some fun running around. And grazing. I’m not sure the grass is any good yet, but it’s good enough to get the goats munching on it. And there are even green buds on some of the trees. I tried telling the goats to leave them alone so they could grow into tasty leaves. The goats have other plans. It would be like telling me not to eat all the slices of a pizza. Save some? HAHA you make me laugh, what a concept.
Sky was really chatty today. Lots of bleating. She’s so funny. Sweet, little girl. With that croaky hoarse voice. At one point I took Mia out of the pen to do some solo filming. And Sky was practically screaming at us. She was not amused.
I have noticed that she always starts bleating when the gruesome newbies get close to her. Even if they aren’t bothering her. If they just walk by her she starts grumbling and mumbling and the closer they get the more she bleats. It’s like she has a proximity alert. Maybe I should try that. When humans get too close I’ll start mumbling and bleating at them until they move away.
2/3 2020

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Goat butt parade. It’s been a while.

2/3 2020

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We got a good deal of sunshine today. Lovely. I even took off my winter coat for a little while! First time since… November? Wonderful. I was sitting on the bench with Mia next to me and she let out a big huge goat yawn right in my face. If only I had been filming, it would have made for a glorious video. I was hoping she’d sit down next to me, because I always love when she sits with me on the bench. But then Sky had other plans… she started bugging Mia. Haha. It was really funny. Mia was standing on the bench and Sky on the ground. And she kept sniffing at Mia’s hooves. And Mia swatted her away. But she just kep going and then sniffing around under Mia’s belly. And then sweet little sky started making little bucky grunt noises. Oh dear. Someone’s in heat. Or both. Sky kept bugging Mia and Mia kept trying to get her to stop. Until finally Mia had had enough and jumped down from the bench and started walking. “Geez, that’s it, kid. I’m outta here”. But Sky just followed her and started sniffing her rear. Oh dear. Haha. Well maybe that also explains why she was so chatty today..
2/3 2020

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Look,ma! No coat!

2/3 2020

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Today will be a good day. HappY Yogi Day everyone.

3/3 2020

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Had a weird dream with Mia. For some reason I had to transport her I guess. So I put her in a freezer… don’t ask me why. There was a bag of frozen peas in ther and I got a few out of the bad and she was nibbling on those. And then I guess I couldn’t carry the freezer? This is when it gets real weird. I had a zipper in my tummy.. andI opened up my stomach. And I put Mia in my stomach. And I walked along with Mia in my tummy, like she was a baby in my womb. Only she was fully grown size. Haha. I don’t even. I know i’m fat but I’m not sure my stomach if Fully Grown Mia size.
3/3 2020

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I heard if you look in the bathroom mirror and say Mitch McConnell’s name three times he eppears. He doesn’t do anything, he just stands there and blocks your way out.
3/3 2020

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goatlog

3/3 2020

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Spent some time youtubing covers of Forever Young. I have a feeling it’s considered corny and uncool? I don’t know. I love those lyrics. A lot. Do you really wanna live forever is a loaded question when you barely want to live a day. The music’s for the sad man.
I love it, though. Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?

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I would tax Raquel Welch.
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Look, green buds on the trees!

3/3 2020

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Please don’t feed the penguins. They’ll nevet be able to fly if they keep putting on weight.
4/3 2020

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“Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music”
Where I’m from the birds sings a pretty song, and there’s always music in the air
4/3 2020

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Today will be a good day. Happy Hump Day everyone.

4/3 2020

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“Will you be honest with me for a second? Just tell me the truth. Do you ever feel lonely?
I mean really lonely. No matter what you do or who you’re with you still feel it. Like you’re walking around and you can feel the whole universe out there, this huge thing out there just going and going and going. And everyone around you is just.. knocking into eveything. Bruising everyone and themselves. And you just feel so lonely you could scream. Tell me I’m not crazy? Tell me you know what I mean?”
Current TV recommendation: The Sinner. ON it’s third season, every season is a self-contained story. It’s a crime thriller thing, but it plays a lot with unreliable narrator and twister memory and that kind of stuff. Bill Pullman is just wonderful. It’s gripping stuff, one of the few shows where I feel like I just want to watch the newest episode right away.
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I think that quote about the loneliness probably hits home to a lot of people. The people who have been touched by the loneliness? The freaks and the geeks, the loners, the losers, the outcasts, the empaths, the unlucky ones. The depressed, repressed. The emo angsty teens. Did I cover all the bases? I imagine I have a number of friends who can relate to some of that. Maybe moreso in the group of friends I found through music and onliny journalling, than with the goat folk. But there are probably some from teh goatfolk too. We tend to drift together, somehow.
I sometimes wonder what it’s like to be normal? To have a quiet mind without worry and pain and doubt and self-loathing, without anguish and fear and without voices telling you that you’re no good and that you don’t deserve to be here. It must be like a beautiful, sunny summer day. As opposed to the storm of a troubled mind.
I don’t know. Maybe everyone has the storm in the mind at some point. It’s hard to imagine going through life with total confidence in your right to be there and to be happy. Even the happiest people must have a hurt child buried inside. Or nah? I don’t know. What is the blessing and what is the curse? Empathy is a good thing. The best art is often made by troubled people. If you think you deserve everything, how easy would it be to think others deserve nothing? If you think you deserve to be here, how easy must it be to build walls to keep others away from your riches. The richer you are the more you want more money. The poorer you are the more you learn to value the less material things. I guess a balanced mind would be the best. My mind is all over the place. Silly goofy highs, deep despairing lows. But even though I have gotten better over time, there is always, always, that voice that says.. you’re not good enough. You don’t deserve to be here. Guess you learn to live in the storm and find beauty in the rain. And appreciate the sun when it shines.
Or I don’t know, I’m just saying words. Rambling as it ever was.
Hey, thanks you all who shine a light into my cracked head. You’re my umbrella, et have af udstrakte hænder.
4/3 2020

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To lighten the mood, here’s a goat butt parade.

4/3 2020

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Sometimse the sun does shine. Every light I found is every light that’s shining down on me.


4/3 2020

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Today will be a good day. Here’s Peanut from 2016.

5/3 2020

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I’m out of soup. To make up for this horrible tragedy, I ordered pizza.
Thanks all fro the responses to the posts yesterday, I am lucky to know such good people. And to have pizza.
Thank you for making me feel like my existence is not utterly pointless.
I toast a slice to your honour, brave viking ballet dancers.
5/3 2020

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Help. help. I’m drowning in goats.

6/3 2020

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Today will be a good day. Here’s Nougat and Vanilje from 2006.

6/3 2020

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I don’t need to wash my hands, I just pray them clean.
6/3 2020

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And now, here’s the latest briefing on the corona virus.

6/3 2020

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I feel like there is someone constantly hammering, sawing, walking, moving furniture or playing loud music in this building.
I swear, a few years ago I barely heard my neighbours. Now I hear them all the time. Even just tv through the walls. And I know I sound like a crazy old coot, but I can even SMELL them. Sometimes my apartment is filled with the garlic of their cooking. Or cigarette smoke! Well, not smoke. But the smell. I can smell cigarettes through the wall. Thankfully that’s not too often. I may be paranoid but everytime I hear someone drilling somewhere I can help thinking “NO STOP YOU’RE DRILLING THROUGH THE WALLS, ALL THAT DRILLING IS THE REASON I CAN HEAR AND SMELL YOU”.
Just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not installing cameras in the wallspace.
At least I can take comfort in the fact that they must be hearing all the bleating very clearly when I edit goat videos.
6/3 2020

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I don’t midn these neighbours making noise.

6/3 2020

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Rest in peace Ole Michelsen. I know he wasn’t known outside Denmark, but I feel like I have to mention him. He was am ovie reviwer. Back in the day when we had one channel, maybe two. Back when you didn’t get content stuffed up you a$$ everywhere ypu æppl. when things didn’t have to be super fast and super commercial and lowest common denominator. I was never a huge movie buff. I mean I loved movies, but it was more like American action, scifi, adventure. While Michelsen famously loved French cinema. But his tv program Bogart was must-see TV for me. He had this graphic with bogart and a cigarette. And he gave out 1-5 hats that fell into place at the end of the show, after he’d talked about the movies. He was one of those guys that just seemed so utterly genuine and the passion he had for what he did shone through and gripped you. Reminds me of Jakob Stegelmann. whomst you also don’t know. Even if they are/were talking about something you didn’t care about it was still worth listening to. He just seemed like such a gent. And back before the internet, his program was the best way of knowing what movies were coming out. Not that I was a cinema goer. I would wait for the video releases. Because phobia.
Anyway. I’ve rambled enough. Five hats on for Ole. Hope you’re in a good place with great directors of the past now.
6/3 2020

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Today will be a good day. Here’s Herman from 2014.

7/3 2020

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Just hanging out. Mia is keeping a close eye on Nuller. She likes swatting him away when he’s sitting in my lap or standing on my back. Little bit possessive.

7/3 2020

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omg. I put on the first episode of the new season of Better Things, and there’s Pamela Adlon in a “Bevar Christiania” shirt. Haha. Preserve Christiania. I wonder if she bought it in Denmark…

7/3 2020

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Today will be a good day. Happy Funday everyone

8/3 2020

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goatlog

8/3 2020

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And now a word from our sponsor. SKYYYYY.

8/3 2020

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Milo knows what the crowd wants. And by crowd I mean Keiko.

8/3 2020

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I think Nuller wants to borrow my hat. OR maybe he wants a bite of the coconnut ‘neath it.

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That’s all for now.


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