Velcro City Tourist Board

Author: PGR

  • fritidsspråk

    There’s something very Swedish about a language textbook chapter themed around sports and pastimes which features a picture of a bunch of adolescents LARPing it up out in the woods somewhere in full dark-elf rigs. But does the chapter at any point teach you the Swedish term for LARPing? Reader, it appears it does not……

  • Solnit’s hope vs. Arendt’s natality

    Rebecca Solnit’s definition of hope is so succinct a summary of my own definition that I assume I must have picked it up from her (and from others who got it from the same source). This version is from a new interview at LARB, which I’m stashing here so I can cite it properly going…

  • 12OCT21 / accessions

    Oh, the glory of having a book budget in your research grant!

  • framsteg med svenska

    Well, time flies, doesn’t it? Just a few days out from hitting a 500-day streak on Duolingo’s Swedish course, for which I completed the whole ‘tree’ a few months back. Duo veterans will be aware that a ‘streak’ can have gaps in it—you can buy yourself days off with the in-game currency (the little red…

  • Mirrorball’s night off