Light Up

« Valopylväs or Lit pylon. Helsingin Engergia lit up one of the five blue power line pylons, a.k.a. hattiwatti (well, really they're called Antti's Footsteps but hattiwatti is a better name), on Ouritsaari between New Year's and Twelfth Night. In the background is the Ruoholahti power station and the lights of Ruoholahti. »

So, Tarja Halonen won the election and will be President of Finland for another six years. One has to appreciate a world leader who takes time on the weekends for bellydancing classes. Can you just imagine, say, Bush taking some sort of dance class in a public venue somewhere in DC? No, I couldn't either, but it'd be good for a laugh.

Tarja's long lost Irish-American twin, Conan O'Brien, will be visiting Finland sometime between the 13th and 28th of February to film bits for the show back in the states that airs so late that only the unemployed, insomniacs, night owls and true fans with TiVOs watch. Even in Finland it comes on too late for anyone with a day job that begins at a respectable hour. It's going to be interesting to see how many Finns get pissed when his humour crosses that inevitable line in his mission to entertain the vast majority of his viewers who live in the states.