Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, chairman of the Swedish Skeptics Society, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
I just realised that the lyrics of this traditional Swedish children's song read just like the recounting of a hallucinogen experience or a psychotic episode. Imagine a goggle-eyed grizzled old hippie buttonholing you at a vegetarian restaurant and forcing you, giggling, to listen to the story of his life-changing episode back in '68.
It was really funnyI guess it's no worse than Alice in Wonderland.
I've gotta laugh
This triangular old man came in
He wore wooden clogs and a birch-bark jacket
And a hat trimmed with sausage skinHe sat down on a stool in the kitchen
And pulled a harmonica out of his pocket
And started playing so everything danced
With rittle and rattle and whee and woo!It was really funny
I've gotta laugh
This old man went out the door, still playing
And everything danced away with him
Until the kitchen was emptyThis happened a long time ago
But I just stayed there, sitting
First I became a maternal grandpa, then a paternal grandpa
And then I became a great-great-great-great grandpa!
Comments
"A short one
then a long one,
then triangle
and a rod,
and then a bell that goes 'ding-dang'"
Ohh.... Heavy, man!
Posted by: Henrik | March 8, 2007 1:34 PM
Who would have guessed that our moms and grans and the ladies at Kindergarten were all spaced-out stoners?
Posted by: Martin R | March 8, 2007 2:06 PM
You ask for comments on the blog. Please, please, no more furry toys, no more cute kiddie songs; you cannot compete with Boing and others. Just give us archaeology.
Posted by: Cynic | March 8, 2007 2:51 PM
Humph. Give us whatever you want, it's your blog. If it amuses/interests you, post it. If it amuses/interests me, I'll read it. Problem solved.
Posted by: arby | March 8, 2007 4:56 PM
By the way, since I read this via ScienceBlogs in my feed reader (Google), am I correct in thinking that it doesn't show up in your numbers? The whole post is often in the reader window, sans comments, so I don't always click thru to your site. When I do, the post is so fresh there are often no comments yet anyway. You may have many more readers than the numbers suggest. Thanks, rb
Posted by: arby | March 8, 2007 5:26 PM
I asked people in the know once, and they believed that RSS readers also trigger the counter.
As for content, well, I would never have become a steady blogger if I was allowed to write only about archaeology.
Posted by: Martin R | March 9, 2007 1:49 AM