Interview
One Year of Words
Jack Mikkel Revheim is writing a book without a title, a deadline for publication, or a clear ending. RABAGAS Magazine meets the author halfway through a year-long experiment in creativity, chaos, and documenting life.
Everyday Life
Everyday Life
The Poor Man
A two-day coffee withdrawal ends in an ordinary shopping centre café—and an unexpectedly expensive lesson in modern Norwegian pricing. A small story about coffee, inflation and the feeling that everyday life has quietly become a luxury.
Everyday Life
Humanity vs. Customer Service
Modern life no longer pits us against the forces of nature. Instead, we battle phone queues, chatbots and customer service departments that seem designed to test the limits of human patience. A humorous essay about bureaucracy, technology and the quiet art of surviving modern life.
Housing
The Modern Marathon Nobody Talks About
Moving house is often described as a practical task. In reality, it can become a logistical marathon, a financial endurance test, and a surprisingly lonely experience—especially when all you own is a bicycle. An essay about modern life, hidden assumptions, and the invisible cost of starting over.
Digital Life
Modern Humans Are Just Passwords and Receipts
Modern life is less about living than remembering passwords, collecting receipts, and proving to machines that we are who they already know we are. A humorous essay about the quiet absurdities of the digital age.
ADHD
Five Minutes
Laundry only takes five minutes. Unless your brain insists on turning it into fifty tiny tasks first. A humorous personal essay about ADHD, everyday life, and the invisible distance between intention and action.
Everyday Life
People Who Look Out of Windows
Some people chase beautiful views. Others simply need a window. An essay about trains, hotels, airplanes, and the strangely comforting act of watching the world pass by.
Technology
Light Bulbs and Privacy
Buying a light bulb used to require a shop and a few coins. Today it may require cookies, newsletters, analytics consent and yet another password. Somewhere along the way, shopping became an exercise in digital identity.
Relationships
We Should Grab a Coffee Sometime
"We should grab a coffee sometime" may be the most common polite fiction in the Norwegian language. We promise future conversations with complete sincerity—right up until nobody ever suggests a date.
Everyday Life
The People Who Stay After the Party Is Over
I've always been one of the people who stay after the party is over. Not because I'm the most social, but because the quiet moments at the end often reveal more about people than the party itself ever could.
Everyday Life
Life Is Really Just Waiting
We spend our lives waiting—for trains, messages, payday, summer, motivation, and the feeling that life is finally about to begin. Perhaps growing older isn't about waiting less, but about becoming better at it.
Personal Essays
On High Alert
Sometimes the hardest part isn't knowing where you're going. It's not knowing whether you'll have anywhere to go at all. An essay about uncertainty, survival, and a nervous system that refuses to stand down.