My buddy from Sweden is back with another song:

Otherwise, I recently found this feature of gmail quite powerful:
http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/10/googles-mail-go.html

I met a Swedish songwriter last weekend and we shot the breeze and played some tunes and drank some beers, a great Saturday.
Here’s his first entry, just in time to garner resonance before the most important u.s.-election in a long time. More to come…..

A botellon is an informal gathering of teenagers to drink in public. The concept comes from Spain, where the kids wanted to rebel against bar-prices by organizing massive drinkathons in parks. The largest botellon was held in Madrid with 10,000 participants.
These parties are organizable by word of mouth, and most recently, via social websites such […]

I get to read the free daily paper “Blick am Abend” during my hour-long commute. Yesterday on the cover was a picture of some singer (whose identity I won’t reveal, because she doesn’t need this type of news). The singer, sitting passed out in front of a club. Why does that news […]

Just when I began to think it no longer possible, my dear homeland government has
furnished me with another exciting piece of comedy. Will the follies ever cease? The fun ever end?
My post today included a letter from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the ones with the audacity to request financial information from Americans overseas, albeit […]

I got this item in the old-fashioned post today! 
Does anybody have the correct answers to those quiz questions? 
I’m confused (and I’ll likely be hungry by the time you read this).
Please post suggestions for the answers to this quiz in the comments!

Thanks to my buddy Bill for saving the day on this one.  Who’d have thunkit!?!  Pennsylvania playing such a […]

Gather around the glow of this campfire and hear yet more of uncle willnillchen’s tales on the greyhound bus.
I used to travel Greyhound to the tune of $40 and 18h roundtrip between Pittsburgh and Washington DC. Back in my first two years of college. Its a great price but takes a toll on […]

And now its time for my (almost) daily gripe about the homeland.
One notion, that my eurofriends find incomprehensible, is that american citizens have to file u.s. taxes, even when their entire income and entire possessions exist outside of the u.s. 
“Filing” taxes is not necessarily paying for them.  As far as I can tell, if a u.s. citizen earns more […]