winther blog

Being on vacation always reignites my motivation to read books. I mostly read on my Kindle, but during this vacation I read an entire book on my phone. Because the ebook library service we have only exists as an app. While I do like physical books, I am not overly attached to the medium of literature or text in general. Still, it is difficult to completely ignore the sort of stigma associated with reading (staring at) on your phone. Staring at your phone is, with at least some valid…

Halfway through the year already and it is officially summer. 📃 Blog: Obviously quite limited, with only 3 posts since last time, though I am pretty pleased with all of them as they allowed to go a bit deeper in some things I love like spaghetti westerns and Isabelle Huppert. The Calvin & Hobbes was also mentioned in the podcast The Magic of Calvin and Hobbes in episode 21. Also not a whole lot has happened to shortsfreviews.com, but I am okay with that. It is there if I encounter a story I…

Keeping within the movie theme, my submission for this months IndieWeb Carnival is an appreciation (love letter) to the French actress Isabelle Huppert. It wasn’t my first love in the cinematic world, that would have been either Gillian Anderson or Jodie Foster, nor the most recent one - which would go to Marlene Dietrich. Isabelle Huppert is not only the actress I have seen in most films with (only passed by Clint Eastwood for actors of all genders - but that is for a different blog post), but…

Kami asks for this month’s Bear Blog Carnival to write about a favourite in our niche hobby, and I went for my favourite spaghetti western character. It is a genre filled with iconic characters bought to life by great actors. There is of course Clint Eastwood’s so called Man With No Name from the three Leone films. There is Django from Corbucci’s film of the same name that came so popular that a plethora of cheap knock off films included Django in the title or named characters without being in…

Calvin and Hobbes likely doesn’t need any more praise for being the unique cultural achievement it is as one of the most acclaimed comic strips of all time. Everyone agrees on that already. So this post is mostly about my own personal journey with the strip and why I can’t help but feel nostalgic about it. I know almost down to the date when I first discovered Calvin and Hobbes. It was in the spring of 1995 while I was in my parents’ summer house where I bought this magazine called Serieparaden…