gray day

rain, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

Me and the kids at the summer play centre actually jumped into the water and swam around for half an hour. It was really nice...

rattus norvegicus

rattus norvegicus, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

Found this sad and very dead specimen of Rattus Norvegicus under our lunch table at Rålis today. Poor bastard. Probably ate too many picnic hot dogs.

fiskis sunset

fiskis sunset, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

Walked down to Holmen yesterday for a cool refreshing evening swim.

friendly neighbourhood svenne

svenne, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

This is your friendly neighbourhood Svenne taking a serious look into the future... what does he see? Money? Fame? Ladies? Success? Who knows...

summer in fiskis

summer, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

More pics from my lazy summer in Fiskis. As I've said before... life is good... sometimes...

search & destroy

search & destroy, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

Some high quality Fiskis destruction outside the school. Maybe the kids drank a bit too much of that cheap wine...

And I’m the world’s forgotten boy
The one who’s searchin’, searchin’ to destroy
And honey I’m the world’s forgotten boy
The one who’s searchin’, searchin’ to destroy

from "Search & Destroy" by Pop/Williamson

fried

me, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

I like this summer. Eventhough it often feels like my brain has been fried.

rent-a-latvian 2.0

Latvia, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

Have you tried Hyrlett/Rent-a-Latvian" yet? Another triumph for Capitalism! Haven't you heard? There's a huge demand for Latvians nowadays! As their slogan says "Det är lätt med en Lett" - in english that is "It's easy with a Latvian". Rent one and put them to work. They are cheap and they can clean your house, cook or paint and build stuff. You can also just fuck around with them and feel like a boss. No problem. Not as long as you live in a free capitalist country! Don't be a boring old european commie now - rent a Latvian today and put him/her to work! Show some solidarity with them while you kick there tiny ex-communist asses. Go Latvian!

a day at work

adayatwork, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

Another hard day at work down at Smedsuddsbadet... life is hard sometimes... all this sunshine and bathing makes me tired...

violence in fiskis

violence in fiskis, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

This is todays news headline all over Stockholm - "Youth gangs keep Fisksätra in fear". It's not that bad really... I think that more people in Fiskis are annoyed at the landlord and the excessive rent we have to pay and the crap service we get for that hard earned money we pay than actually are affraid of the "youth gangs". The most threatening people I've met so far in Fiskis were undercover policemen... sad, isn't it...

copa america 2005

copa america 2005, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

The big sport event of the year in Fiskis - Copa America 2005! Gooooaaaaaal!

trash

trash, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

The beauty of trash...

michael ledeen and that fascist groove thang

michael ledeen, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

Do you remember when Donald "I don't do diplomacy" Rumsfeld refered to Germany and France as the "old europe"?
Now, a couple of years later, I've found this very interesting article in the American Conservative. The article is about the famous neoconservative Michael Ledeen and the headline is "Flirting with Fascism". It suggests that the source of Donald Rumsfelds comment is Michael Ledeen and the Italian fascist Asvero Gravelli. I really recommend everyone to read this article. Ledeen's political ideas are said to have influenced and inspired the Bush administration. That's why his fascination of Italian Fascism is so interesting. It would also be very interesting to get a neoliberal comment on Michael Ledeen's ideas and his view that Italian fascism was both right-wing and revolutionary. Neoliberals have always ranted on about that both fascism and nazism are socialistic, and thus left-wing, ideologies. Ledeen does apparently not agree. Fascism is the source of his ideas about “the democratic revolution” and “creative destruction”. Ideas that maybe explain the situation in Iraq - it's just a little bit of that old creative destruction. Watchout for Michael and his two droogs Donald and George!

fiskis parking lot

fiskis parking lot, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

After drinkin' from the bottle I suddenly found my self walkin' over this parking lot in Fisksätra. How did I get here?

koh phangan

koh phangan, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

This time we found a little bottle ("which certainly was not here before," said Juliana), and tied round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words "DRINK ME" beautifully printed on it with large letters.

juliana

juliana, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

Okay - now things start to get out of focus... This is Juliana after a Chang at Koh Phangan... weird...

hey mr dj

mr dj, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

Why am I not allowed to drink beer at my job? Me and Juliana went out and tried some bars at Söder. I think we did really good for a while... This is the DJ at Nada enjoying his beer.

nike

nike, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

This is Nike in the middle of a serious photo duel with me. It's hard to shoot while trying to protect yourself...

the many faces of kea

kea, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

Sounds like a 70ies movie or something... anyway... me, Kea and Nike went out for a couple of beers and had a really fun Friday afternoon. Life is good.

super8

super8, originally uploaded by John Barleycorn.

A good lookin' piece of street art that I found at Götgatan between Högbergsgatan and Medborgarplatsen. Keep up the good work!