{"id":186,"date":"2008-07-29T02:00:41","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T02:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2008\/07\/how-do-you-say-oy-vey-in-swedish.html"},"modified":"2008-07-29T02:00:41","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T02:00:41","slug":"how-do-you-say-oy-vey-in-swedish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2008\/07\/how-do-you-say-oy-vey-in-swedish.html","title":{"rendered":"How do you say &#8220;Oy Vey&#8221; in Swedish?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This video isn\u2019t new, it\u2019s from about a year ago, but in celebration of having successfully assembled all my new IKEA furniture (which is an adventure in patience and commitment and, well, splinters), I thought I\u2019d post this. Mark Malkoff, a writer and filmmaker, lived in IKEA for a week and made a film about it. It\u2019s pretty hysterical.<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"Mark Lives In IKEA\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hw-axQjCinU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Consumerism materialism attachment blah blah blah. I don&#8217;t know if he is making any deep statements about anything. Whatever. It\u2019s just funny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You can watch the rest of his IKEA videos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marklivesinikea.com\/index.html\">here<\/a>. I especially love the security guard reading him bedtime stories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This guy also attempted to visit EVERY Starbucks in Manhattan in a 24 hour period. It turns out (at the time of his project) there were 171 of them. <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=CwYxuV2dVzw\">And HE DID IT!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Anyone else been to the IKEA in Red Hook, yet? I swear to God, I&#8217;m just going to buy <em>real <\/em>furniture next time&#8230;real furniture with <em>real <\/em>names&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video isn\u2019t new, it\u2019s from about a year ago, but in celebration of having successfully assembled all my new IKEA furniture (which is an adventure in patience and commitment and, well, splinters), I thought I\u2019d post this. 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