Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Jul 13, 2011, 11:44 am
Dish 11: Parfait of cave-aged Danish cheese served with ”sparkling cheese” This is the sort of dish that was both pretty stupid, pretty funny and pretty up and down. Firstly, I should probably try to explain the concept of sparkling cheese: See, some time last summer I had Tina and Malene over ...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Jun 29, 2011, 3:01 pm
Sometimes your entire world just seems to come tumbling down around you.. Earlier today we were shocked and deeply saddened to hear about the passing of our dear, old university English lecturer, Ole Buhl, who left this world entirely too early a few days back. I think it’s safe to say that over ...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Jun 20, 2011, 1:03 pm
Clarence “The Big Man” Clemons, legendary saxophonist of Bruce Springsteen’s E-Street Band, passed away two days ago on June 18 from complications of a stroke suffered a week ago, 69 years old.. Springsteen released the following statement: It is with overwhelming sadness that we inform our f...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Jun 16, 2011, 12:31 pm
There’s been a lot of talk about wine already in this series of posts, so I’ll sum up the red wine quickly: BEST.. WINE.. EXPERIENCE.. EVER!! Okay, I can do better than that, but really it would take forever, let’s just say that I managed to get my greedy, little hands on a very limited releas...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - May 28, 2011, 9:40 am
Having blabbered incoherently about wine for a few minutes, it was time to move on with the show and bring on the next dish: Dish 4: Steamed asparagus and Skagen Ham with poached quail egg yolks and home-made mayonnaise with vinegar, tarragon, wild garlic and seaweed There’s this really curious...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - May 24, 2011, 2:46 pm
There’s an important French cooking concept. It’s called mise en place.  It refers to the concept of everything needed to quickly finish a dish being in it’s place and prepped. It’s supposed to make execution of multiple servings dinners quite a lot easier.. And I’m not very good at it.. ...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - May 17, 2011, 11:56 am
Spring Gourmet dinner 2011: Eat local, goddamnit! - Appetizers - Fried potato crisp with smoked Salmon Smoked white cheese, radishes and pickled cucumber gel Glazed lobster tail, trout roe and aromatic sea water foam Raw pickled leeks, blanched red onion slithers and creme fraiche Layered Crem...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - May 16, 2011, 11:56 am
Note to the picky reader: I jotted this down in about 30 minutes over the course of a day in Microsoft Notepad without spell check, grammar check or anything.. There are errors, there are typos, I’m knackered, I apologize. It’s been a while since I’ve done any real cooking. And by real cookin...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - May 10, 2011, 2:50 pm
Generally speaking, the proposition was as simple as it was confusing: Can I drop by and get you hammered tomorrow if I bring plenty of Belgian beer and a guy named Bo? That is the exact wording of the text message that Dunkel sent me on Thursday and given the fucked up nature of the question, the o...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - May 3, 2011, 2:33 pm
I’ve had a pretty busy weekend. In between working and spoiling Tina silly with a 14 course tasting dinner, I’ve actually had surprisingly little time for relaxation.. At a point in time where I probably really needed to relax. As a result, I, rather ironically, spent most of May 1st, Internatio...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Apr 21, 2011, 3:30 am
April 21, 2011.. Judgement Day.. That is if you subscribe to the Terminator lore version of the world timeline.. Which state that today is the day that the run-amok Artificial Intelligence computer system Skynet launches an all out nuclear attack on the human race, laying the world as we know it in ...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Apr 19, 2011, 12:58 pm
So this is what it’s come down to.. Mine eyes have seen the newest teen sensation, and it wasn’t pretty! I know I’m not exactly helping things by giving her more views, but regardless of that I thought I’d share with you the currently most viewed video on Youtube.. With 110+ MILLION hits(!),...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Apr 19, 2011, 12:43 pm
Yes, boys and girls.. Five years, indeed! That, to the date, is exactly how long we’ve kept this crazy little side project of mine going! For half of a fucking decade I’ve kept you supplied with silly accounts, great laughs on my behalf, useless info, geeky info about cuisine that probably no on...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Apr 10, 2011, 11:43 am
Wow.. Time flies when you’re having fun.. Or working.. Or, as in my case, a combination of both.. Work has been throwing challenges at me at a feverish pace, and I’ve been doing my best to address those.. And have had a damn good time doing so.. And have had some pretty fun moments on the sideli...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Mar 29, 2011, 3:17 pm
For the first time in my life, I can now tell people to get the fu.. err.. the hell out of my office! Which incidentally is the first thing I did after putting up my pretty name plaque which arrived today Because, well, that’s just the nice kind of a guy I am.. I decided to thank Rikke for all h...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Mar 24, 2011, 4:35 am
“Maybe.. Just maybe.. If we’re all quite done showboating our very worst sides, maybe we should take some time to introduce ourselves from our good sides?” The words were that of my boss and they were uttered over breakfast at work earlier this week.. We don’t usually have breakfast at work....
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Mar 19, 2011, 12:59 pm
It’s week three of my new working life adventure, it’s Saturday, it’s late afternoon, I’m sitting at the computer with a glass of young Italian red wine, I’m listening to a re-run of Sort Søndag, Danish radio’s weekly metal show and life on earth is good.. It’s so wonderful to be abl...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Mar 15, 2011, 4:10 pm
“Nooo,” Emelie cried as her involuntary hand gesture knocked the glass over, spilling it’s precious and ridiculously expensive contents on the kitchen table. “My mojitooo!” – Tina howled with the genuine pain and anger of an innocent girl done horribly wrong, her anguished cry echoing ...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Mar 12, 2011, 4:50 am
I mentioned in my last post that my boss thought it pretty funny to have me interviewed by a journalist and not tell me anything about it in advance.. I did find the whole story rather odd, but honestly didn’t think much about it.. Well, that is until I received the Friday afternoon edition of the...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Mar 6, 2011, 10:25 am
Oh hi there! Well, it’s Sunday afternoon, I’m at the end of my first week as an IT professional and I’ve come to a few rather surprising conclusions: One being that I love weekends again – now that I don’t have every day off, they suddenly sorta make sense. Another being that while I do lo...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Mar 4, 2011, 5:50 pm
To quote the original poster: “Whoever did this, I love you!” And, kids, if you don’t get this, ask your parents or go listen to Lionel Richie..
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Mar 2, 2011, 3:40 pm
So? How did my first day at work go? Well, in many ways better than expected, and in some aspects much more confused and painful than expected.. Let’s just start from the beginning, shall we? For weeks, I’d dreaded having to get up at 6:30 AM. As such, I’d laid out pretty much everything, clo...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Mar 1, 2011, 3:53 pm
… And it was awesome! And I will have a LOT to say on the matter (alongside tall tales of how I learned to play the air banjo over the weekend and how statistics became fun)! That, honestly, is about all I can manage right now. I spent a lot of time in front of a computer monitor today and a long ...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Feb 23, 2011, 9:01 am
I picked up my new glasses from the optician today and they’ve really helped put things into perspective.. Or focus, I should say. Literally. Apparently, unbeknownst to me, I was running around with a pair of glasses that weren’t so much correcting my vision as they were setting it askew. Which,...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Feb 22, 2011, 2:45 pm
.. Till I start my new job.. And boy am I all excited-like. I never was the most patient person in the world, and I probably never will be. But really, this is ridiculous. I’ve been unemployed for going on eight months now and I’m about ready for that particular situation to come to an end. No, ...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Feb 17, 2011, 3:56 pm
Hi, my name is Johan, I’m 29 years old and I don’t buy my own clothes. Okay, umm, well, given enough pressure and desperation I probably would buy my own clothes – and I’ve been known to do so in certain circumstances.. But I just generally prefer not to! No no, don’t worry, I’m not one...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Feb 10, 2011, 11:28 am
.. And by gosh did he get just that? I think I’ve just spotted my first piece of Wikipedia vandalism.. It would surely go to explain why this alternative information linking Leviathan to 15th century Japan and moldy potatoes disappeared within the relatively short time span it took me to do a scr...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Feb 8, 2011, 12:29 pm
Being the foodie that I am, I get a lot of questions relating to cooking in general and a few relating to my cooking in particular. One question that I often get is one that goes something along the lines of “Gee, Johan, how the f’ do you come up with those weird culinary ideas of yours?” As ...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Feb 6, 2011, 5:19 pm
2011 has been a bad year for musicians thus far, and 58 is way too young.. Please excuse the 80′s cheese, this really is an awesome song..
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Feb 3, 2011, 12:26 pm
*TWEEP* *TWEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEEEP* the computer console shrieked loudly. “Cuntinggoddamnsonofabitchmotherfucker,” I mumbled under my breath as the sound echoed through the reasonably crowded café, raising a few heads and startling a few smaller children. “Anything?,” Heidi enquired. “...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Jan 29, 2011, 7:36 am
I admit it, updates have been really, really scarce lately, but for a good reason! I’ve been preparing for, and running around between, job interviews. It’s taken a lot out of me, it has been grueling and I’ve been tired.. Very tired.. But, y’know what? Fuck it.. Ladies and gentlemen: I have...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Jan 25, 2011, 10:59 am
I’ve heard numerous times that a picture really says more than a thousand words.. So here’s a picture from breakfast on January 1st which really quite well describes the general feeling of the day.. Let’s just say that it was a long, hard road home, that I nearly fell over hugging Zascha good...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Jan 21, 2011, 11:19 am
When I last left this story, some two weeks ago, I think I stated that immediately after dinner the table was cleared and a party was had.. Which may be a bit of a half-truth because as we all know, boys will be boys and on New Year’s eve boys get to play with fireworks.. And in a perfect world th...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Jan 17, 2011, 11:30 am
Whoa, so I realize it’s been almost two weeks without a post which is bad even for my current standards.. I also realized I’ve neglected my presence on most social networks for extended periods of time.. And that people may have wondered what the hell has been going on. If the blog comments of t...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Jan 4, 2011, 1:00 pm
Having spent most of the 29th and the 30th cooking for our grand New Year’s Dinner, I allowed myself to sleep in on the last day of the year.. Well, as much as I possibly could anyways. I still had some final preparations and packing to do as well as some getting myself ready for the big day.. And...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Jan 2, 2011, 11:29 am
First of all: Happy 2011 to all of you dear readers out there in the blogosphere! This New Year’s was a pretty special one to me in many ways. For starters, it was to be a much smaller, yet more intimate party than those of the last many years. Secondly it was to be much more sophisticated and mu...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Dec 28, 2010, 12:10 pm
For someone who doesn’t much appreciate celebrating Christmas, I’ll have to admit that I got around to doing it quite a lot this year. Actually, I celebrated over three whole days, in three different towns none the less! Which is actually some what of a feat considering the Xmas weather, we have...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Dec 24, 2010, 5:44 am
.. and holy crap where the hell did that come from? I feel like it was just early November.. And now it’s Christmas Eve.. Well, it’s the day of Christmas Eve.. Err.. The 24th.. Christmas high noon? You get my drift.. As per usual, I’ve got a busy schedule ahead of me, and as per usual, I’m ...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Dec 21, 2010, 3:09 pm
Since the answer to my question is probably going to be “Umm.. No? Why the hell would I’ve done that?” – let me go on to tell you that you should and implore you to check it out! For starters, check out who debuted at no 3 this week: That’s right.. Surfing Bird! In the original 1963 vers...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Dec 15, 2010, 2:20 pm
Huge controversy in social web land today! In which I was merely trying to post an awesome live version of one of the best power ballads ever written, and eventually many a tear was shed over a mean cross-posting of a video of some constructed teenage group blatantly mangling the soft rock classic.....
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Dec 14, 2010, 6:03 pm
I have an amazing, understanding best friend! And I’m not saying that because she understands that my calling her a fuct up bitch is just another way of saying that I love her, or because that she knows that my flipping her off is really just a sign of affection.. And yeah, those things happen, I ...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Dec 9, 2010, 10:45 am
It’s time for another update from the wonderful world of unemployment and job hunting. Today, I want to share with you, dear reader, an email that I received earlier this week. Not that I usually make a habit of publicly sharing personal correspondence.. But not only is this one of the few positiv...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Dec 8, 2010, 11:23 am
Like this little comment which got caught in my spam filter just hours ago as a response to my rather wordless John Lennon tribute, consisting of nothing but an image of the Imagine mosaic and the title “Strawberry Fields.. Forever..” But, y’know, thanks.. I’m glad you like my wordless writ...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Dec 8, 2010, 10:58 am
Of course, the day wouldn’t be complete without a tribute to today’s other fallen hero, Dimebag Darrell Abott, of Pantera and Damageplan fame.. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, December 8 is not a good day in rock music history. So to Dime, to Jeff, to Erin and last but not least ...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Dec 8, 2010, 7:25 am

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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Dec 7, 2010, 12:07 pm
I busted my first ever drug deal a few days ago! But I’m no hero! Actually, I didn’t exactly mean to do anything, it just sorta happened, and it didn’t exactly make me very popular amongst the street crawlers.. But at least, as you can tell from this posting, I did make it out of the experienc...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Dec 2, 2010, 11:34 am
If you have friends like mine.. Take this past Friday, for example. I was really trying my hardest to be pissed about my situation. I wasn’t so much fuming about not being offered the position i so wanted, as I was fuming over the fact that they weren’t prepared to give me an explanation as to w...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Dec 1, 2010, 3:29 pm
I mean, it’s not like anybody really wants it.. There’s absolutely no reason for it being so abundant this time of year.. So, yeah, I’m sick.. And miserable.. And vaguely resemble a walking corpse.. When I’m even up and about, that is. I barely have the energy to attend my job seeking cours...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Nov 27, 2010, 6:36 am
.. And as you can probably tell from the lack of enthusiasm, it didn’t go to well.. Or that is to say, I actually had a feeling that the interview itself went pretty well. The biggest challenge was actually finding the damn place. Hospitals are apparently very big places and finding entrance no. 5...
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Johan J. posted an article on Random Drunken Rants - Nov 24, 2010, 1:51 pm
Rest in Peace, Freddie.. I grew up on your music, y’know, it’s kinda sad that you died just as I started getting into music..
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