Three stray thoughts

1. a tale of three cities. Oslo taught me to yearn for Istanbul. Istanbul taught me that beauty comes with a price. Kolding taught me that the price isn't too high. Oppegård has taught me that Oslo is 'home'.

2. arriving late. I managed to miss the high points of both Gothenburg and Oslo. I arrived in GBG after seeing the riots on TV, hearing of Hvitfeldska on IMC internet radio. Nothing had prepared by for the war zone Gbg had become. I left Kolding right before the big anti-World Bank demo had began and arrived in Oslo right after the last revellers left RtS, not knowing if I would enter another Gbg or not. I didn't. But this, coming late for the action, is a talent of mine. Back in '98, I arrived in Istanbul the day after a particularly brutal police crackdown on a demo. They hadn't yet washed the blood off the streets.

3. generation LARP. Ultra-reactionary family-tractor-gunism meets ultraliberal hacker ethic. Why us? Why now? And how is it even possible?