The series of teenage boys who try out their fresh, newly sprouted bodies continues. Note how his mother (?) enters and watches in awe what she has created. This is so beautiful.

And you thought Abba was a one time phenomenon? Then check out these videos with Sweden’s contributions to Eurovision Song Contest in 1971 and 1972, both years with the group Family Four. Notice any similarities with Abba? (Abba won - and had their breakthrough - in 1974.) I know Majbritt will break her spine in excitement when watching these.

If you like coming of age movies, you’ll like Lucas4you’s blog. It’s well written, often updated and sports a huge number of reviews of coming of age films, as well as lots of pictures.

The picture in this post comes from Boy of Baghdad.

How nice to wake up at 5 o’clock. It’s summer and the sun is already up. You’re free from school/work for another couple of months, and you intend to make the most of them. So you enjoy the first hour of the morning on the balcony with Foucault. When your stomach starts making sounds, you make a cup of coffee for yourself and a couple of cheese sandwiches. You digest them to the sound of the morning news. Nothing happened today - like always in the summer time. You eat the bread and sip the rest of the coffee on the balcony while finishing Foucault. At about 6:30 you start reading a crime novel to the sounds of the birds chirping in the trees. Nice. Maybe it’s time to mount that hammock today? Then it dawns on you: I haven’t gone to bed yet! Darn. Oh well, it was a lovely morning anyways.

Tonight I had the pleasure to meet for the first time and party with Reb Kerstinsdotter, who wrote the academic thesis about Destroyer. We ended up at a party where Robert Stadlober dj’ed.

No one but a teenage boy could pull it off in this outfit!

I have two contradictory views on boys and fashion:

1. Fashion is made for teenage boys. It frames their beauty like the feathers of a peacock.

2. Fashion is made for everyone else. It lends us attributes that the teenage boy, our ideal, possesses naturally.

Look at the beautiful motives of these Czechoslovak (upper two) and Hungarian banknotes from the 1920’s. See more old banknotes at Rinrin.

This disturbingly sexy teenage boy lives by the Black Sea. You’ll see more of him very soon …

You might remember him from Destroyer 04.

Several of the core Destroyer readers have demanded I offer transparent plastic sleeves to protect their little treasures, especially in the US, where the DIN A5 format is not a standard.

Well, here they are! Made to fit and open on one short end. They are available in the Destroyer shop separately or in a package of 10.

This is one of the young sportsmen from Omsk that featured in Destroyer 04. Don’t comment - just sit back in awe.