First, Taranika decided that she wanted Swedish pancakes for breakfast and I decided that I wanted some too. So I got up at 7.30 and called Sara to join us, which she did.
As a native of the country of Swedish pancakes, I am somewhat ashamed to say that Taranika's pancakes (left) turned out way better than mine (right).
Durrh....ergh...ergh
After a couple (read: a bunch) of tries the pancakes started coming out nicely. My dad has a recipe where he adds sparkling water to the batter, supposedly to make it more fluffy. I tried this, but couldn't really tell any difference. A funny thing: In Sweden, it's hard to find corn-on-a-cob that is not canned. Don't ask me why. In the US however, it's hard to find proper whipping cream. The store I go to only carried spray-can whipping cream or Cool Whip. It's kind of weird to not have access to the real thing.
The Cool Whip on the far right.
Pancakes, yeah!
After the pancakes, we were all full and happy. Me and Sara went to a café to study until the Chip Kidd reading started.
Chip was a very theatrically gifted reader, and the new book The Learners (a sequel to his first novel, "The Cheese Monkeys" (not to be confused with Cheese-eating Surrender Monkeys).
Whereas The Cheese Monkeys was an academic satire and coming-of-age tale about state college art students who struggle to meet the demands of sadistic art instructors (Wikipedia), The Learners is about the protagonist Happy having graduated and now working at an ad agency while simultaneously partaking in the Stanley Milgram's famous Obedience to Authority-experiment.
Should be interesting!
I also found out that Kidd has a band.
Not exactly my cup of tea, but hey...
Me and Chip
(Extremely) short snippet of Chip talking about his band (complete with mannerisms):
Amusing, but scary promotional video for the book:
(Wait for the hamster)
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Chip altogether.
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