meme dilemme

A few days ago, Nancy tagged me with a meme. And threw me for a loop because I’m a bit of a wuss when it comes to memes [as regular readers may recall]. Of course I couldn’t pretend not to have seen it because that would just be stupid. And having acknowledged to...

Wanna job? Here’s a job!

To wit: AAH, aged 14, heads downtown today with her girlfriends, as girlfriends-aged-14 do. Returns home and announces with great enthusiasm: ‘I have a job!’YT: […]Seems she’s got a job at an upmarket bakery downtown. Evidently the manageress...

Jobs a go-go!

Niceland is waking up to an alarming problem. Now that all the students are going back to school, it seems there are a lot more jobs to go around than there are people to fill them. Which as you can imagine is not a happy state of affairs. As early as Monday, day-care...

Flags of our Extras

According to today’s Fréttablaðið, old Clint Eastwood and co. have been having a spot of trouble with the 400-or-so extras on the Flags of Our Fathers set. Seems they’re becoming increasingly disinclined to show up for work. A couple of factors are cited for the...

Joe Cockoverload

Joe Cocker is in Iceland to give a concert later in the week. Consequently we the poor innocent radio-listening public are being constantly subjected to Joe’s slaughtering of various well-known tunes in his trademark growl-slash-constipated vocals. EPI and YT have had...