The paper from Hell is done! 2,955 words on the relationship between Socialist art, the German Art Nouveau movement, and Zionist iconography through the artwork of Ephraim Moses Lilien!

Try writing that paper 3 times. OUCH.


Scratch your head, wondering why everyone accepts there is a connection between Zionist and Socialist symbolism, but no one has ever written on it/researched it in English!

Try finding out all your sources are only available in ONE room of the Royal Library, where someone will sit with you and watch you read them as you write things down with a pencil and paper because electronic devices are banned from the rare books room!

Watch as you are told that you cannot make copies of artwork because it is classified as an 'art book'!

Wait for an old man to take pity on you as start to cry because you actually needed those copies!

Groan the moment you find out that getting a copying card takes over a half an hour!

Scratch your head when you are told that you cannot put less than a 100 DKK on your card at one time!

Realize you are being ripped off as you make your copies and spend only 8 DKK!

Realize you computer has crashed again and you have lost your research!

Marvel at the Danish system of book retrieval as you try to check out the same books you did the day before, now mysteriously missing!



Conclusion: the Danish Library system is AWFUL. And in case anyone ever needs a copying card, I have one with like 92 DKK on it.

Also, I've been listening to this Tobias Fröberg guy from Sweden(brother of Jose Gonzales)...its sort of folky easy-listening stuff...kind of like Damien Rice, but with actual emotion and lyrics that have something to say, as opposed to just pretending. Mom, you would like him. I can send you the link to some free tracks.


Estonia this weekend!