A Higher Blogger

We love Jens Lekman. He is at the forefront of an unusually rich musical front coming out of Sweden. He is cold, ironic, lovelorn and charming. So when he posted some angrier thoughts on his not-blog Smalltalk last year, I was worried about Rocky Dennis. After a long break in posting, Jens has returned to Smalltalk with one of the most beautiful posts I have ever read. On Feb. 10, he called the site,

"not a blog or a diary. It is highly suphisticated conversational trivia. An attempt to establish a set of groundrules for our communication. A collection of pickup lines I wouldn't recommend."

But it is his Feb. 6 post that amazed me. It is one of the strangest, most beautiful things I have ever read on the Internet and should inspire us all to be better bloggers, writers and people. A sample:

Remember I used to wear a golden key around my neck ? I always told people it was a secret why I wore it. I still wear that key, I take it off when I lie in my bed and I twirl it around my finger. I open bottles with it and I tell drunk bogans on the tram that I am a mayor of a very small golden town. I dip it in chocolate and watch the dry Australian heat deepfry its ambiguous symbolism into a delicacy. I suck on it until I can taste the metal.

For more Smalltalk, click here.