Escape from boredom

Due to the fact that I’m quite lucky, living here in Norway, with my girlfriend, both working and not much to complain about I do believe that it is my responsibility to do at least some small things. So last week I wrote a letter to the General Prosecutor in Russia demanding him to look into the disappearance of Bulat Chilaev. It is the least I can do, being who I am and living where I do – a drop in the ocean maybe, but still – the ocean consists of many drops and all that stuff…

Read more here http://www.amnesty.no/web.nsf/pages/CE1E97234A93BED3C12573450034FCB0

And yes, it might be that my voice, together with all the others in fact will make a difference
http://www.google.no/search?q=Bulat+Chilaev

I was about to go to bed when I read an article in the latest issue of Ny Tid, and it got me to do a search on Youtube for the words Stewart and Crossfire. John Stewart, the host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, now showing on NRK2 here in Norway was invited to Crossfire on CNN. A show that Stewart had mentioned several times due to its nature, always wanting just yes/no answers, asking only the simple questions, a bit like Holmgang on Tv2 here in Norway (if you have watched either of the shows, you get my point!!). Anyhow, I spent 14 minutes watching the clip, and it is…hilarious I must say. Stewart is not there to be funny, and it is a bit like a tank running over unarmed soldiers (but in a good way), Stewart leaves the two hosts with nothing but disgrace.

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Here is the transcript http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/bljonstewartcrossfire.htm And don’t let you be fooled by the “politicalhumor” url, this is in fact deadly serious

And at last, I had to check Holmgangs webpage

Vi skal informere, engasjere og provosere, sier programleder Oddvar Stenstrøm.

http://pub.tv2.no/TV2/magasiner/holmgang/

…like hell you are…

Today Elin and I together with Margit and Sveinung and several other people we know went to see Ornand Altenburg at the release concert for his latest album. The concert was held at the boat Innvik http://www.msinnvik.no/. A really good concert, liked this cd better than his last, a bit more “up”… http://www.ornandaltenburg.no/

Got this picture from my friend Loy earlier today. He had caught the atmosphere at Sagene during daytime. So this is what elderly people do there 🙂

Roy (Instagram @royzvoice)

Read the book about the Morset family from Selbu. Almost the whole family was part of the resistance during the second world war. You could read about Peder Morset at http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peder_Morset, not much but a link at least. A very good book, but it is influenced by being written such a short time after the war.

I got my own url at Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/runehellem

Read the book given to me by Bertel O. Steen almost two years ago. Read parts of the book back then, but when in Riga I took the time to read it all. It’s not a novel, and most of it should be quite common knowledge, but what they are able to do is to implement it… http://www.bokanmeldelse.com/8292400141

Spend the weekend together with Elin in Riga. We went around shopping, ate good food at cosy places and just used the tram to travel around. Due to me being a bit lazy when reserving the hotel, we ended up at Hotel Bergs. A bit to expensive, but what the heck, we wanted a bit of luxury http://www.hotelbergs.lv/

Read the book written by John Dickie about the Cosa Nostra. Quite interesting, a lot of names to remember, should really read it two times or more. Interesting reading, I recommend it, but do not expect it to be written in Hollywood style.