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Dr Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two. This is the world's #1 archaeology blog according to Technorati.

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600 Hidden Plastic Jars

Logged my 600th geocache this bright May morning, took a picture of a treehouse ruin near the cache, then drove home listening to the Nashville Pussy. After lunch, me and the Rundkvist ladies took part in the annual street...

Posted on May 11, 2008 9:13 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

All Her Favourite Fruit

Here's a particularly fine song lyric from Californian 80s indie band Camper Van Beethoven, off of their 1989 disc Key Lime Pie. The song is a folky number in march time with violin, and David Lowery's singing is exquisitely...

Posted on February 16, 2008 10:12 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Kurt Cobain and the Umbilical Noose

The past week I've twice heard Nirvana's 1993 song "Heart Shaped Box" on the radio. I realised that its lyrics have a number of remarkably powerful lines. Kurt Cobain was a talented man. Here are the song's two verses.She...

Posted on February 8, 2008 8:30 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Whose House Are You Haunting Tonight?

An album I can really recommend is LA quartet OK Go's 2005 disc Oh No. It's catchy, glammy rock with swagger and brains and decadence, recorded in Sweden and beautifully produced by Tore Johansson and the mighty Lindgård/Mopeds brothers....

Posted on December 10, 2007 8:50 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks