“No reason to restrain oneself here either”

Here, comrades, is a scan of my latest article which I published as Linnéa J Lundblad in Göteborgs-Posten on Tuesday November 22^nd 2011. Thanks so much to my homegirl Annie for taking time out of her busy day to scan and send me it! In this text, I compare the American Fall with the Russian Spring as both are seasons overflowing with various holidays. Then I put on my bunny ears and expand on a very narrow reading of Pasternak’s Doktor Zhivago – not the novel, but the character. What is most fascinating about my article this time is not any of this, however, but the fact that Critical Companion appears as a very real presence in the middle picture. There’s a lesson for everyone in this: if your roommate has a monthly column in the paper, you can never know for sure where those shots of you in the Dollar Store will end up… [To enlarge and read it: click on the picture, then click 'see original'.]

Just like last month, Mrs S is duly credited for my new byline picture.

I could voice a negative opinion about what I think about how I look in this picture, but I’m not going to because to constantly scrutinize one’s appearance isn’t healthy or even necessary.