American grocery stores usually don’t ask if God exists.
Department: Sweden is different than America
På stationen med vanliga folk. Eww.
No amount of rain is too much rain for Europeans to play soccer.
Built in 1235 AD. Totally falling apart. Just fix it or get a new one. I mean, you can’t even use it anymore.
These are some photos from the Debaser Slussen club in Stockholm where I recently saw Andrew W.K. perform […]
PBR recently showed up here in Stockholm
A push-button lightswitch in the hallway of a Stockholm apartment building.
City hall and the flag
An old parking sign on Södermalm. I love the shapes of the S and Y characters, and how […]
Here is an awesome Sharpie tattoo of a shark that my friend Iida drew on my arm last […]
Just grabbin’ some “content” from “Hollywood” at a speed that would be a sick fantasy in America. It […]
The Church of Sweden had nothing to do with the Heaven’s Gate mass suicide – as far as I know.
Not throwing bags of garbage off the balcony may seem like an obvious courtesy to most people. Not making hip-hop records if you’re Swedish should also be so clear.
On behalf of the Internet, I would like to apologize to any Mexicans or Texans (or Texicans) who have the misfortune to view this reprehensible photograph.
Sweden may have just taken a major step toward ousting Japan as the cutest country in the world. […]
When you’re living in the United States, or any English-speaking country, it’s easy to forget (or not even […]
It’s not every day that typography is in the news or that usage of a particular font can […]
Sometimes I feel like a lot of the material I write for this website is the same. It […]
I’ve received a lot of comments and questions about my previous stories comparing the public transit systems in […]
In your face, Thomas Edison! The man who perfected and commercialized the incandescent light bulb would be aghast […]
Special note: This article was published in 2009, about 10 years before the global pandemic began. It deals […]
I don’t know how to say this delicately, so I’ll just come right out and say it: Swedish […]
These damn Swedish liberals are sooo permissive. Yes, you can park here and yes, it’s free, but we […]
Since President Obama is making a major speech Wednesday on the health care crisis in America, I thought […]
You may remember a story from back in June when I had just attended the music festival in […]
My favorite restaurant in Stockholm is Hermans which is a huge vegetarian buffet that is open late. Not […]
Sometimes in Sweden it’s a little difficult to find some of the foods I really enjoyed in America. […]
One of my favorite reappearing signs in Sweden is this one that is posted near many elevators. Some […]
A word of warning to our more impressionable readers: Today’s story may include some risqué language, namely English. […]