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A long post about nothing in particular
Boy, it’s been a Very Long Time since I’ve been so completely devoid of inspiration when it comes to posting. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever felt quite so deflated in the blogging department. Writers’ blog? Blogstipation?What to write. I could use the old trick of...
What the…?
Today EPI and I were walking to the store when we chanced upon this:Now what, pray tell, were all those neatly-stacked empty plastic containers doing in that bus shelter, with not a soul within a 500-metre radius? Were they left there by a benign Tupperware fairy?...
YT the information sponge
It's exam week and I've been helping AAH study. I'm learning so many interesting things! F'rinstance, did you know that Icelandic women only earned the right to vote in 1915, and the age limit was 40 years? And prior to the advent of labour unions, an Icelandic...
Of pervs, Eurovision and folk
I find it utterly alarming how many hits I'm getting via google searches for 'Icelandic sluts', 'promiscuous Icelandic', 'Icelandic teenage sex', etc. In fact, in the time it took me to write this post, one came through looking for 'iceland, women, sex'. [Hey, punk!...
Hanging.Free.Masons.
We're having some masonry work done to the outside of our building and here's a pic I took of one of the workers:... and another one when he leaned over, wheeeee....Meanwhile, Polly the cockatiel sat on her laundry basket, trying to convince herself that The...
… And you’re out!
Was it the clothes? The dancers? The absence of drums? The nepotism?Such are the questions preoccupying the Icelandic nation, after our girl Selma was eliminated in the Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals last night. I think it’s safe to say that everyone was...
Camping out
The Eurovision preliminaries are tonight, held to decide who gets to move through to the main contest, which is on Saturday. Icelanders lo-ove Eurovision. [Even if they pooh-pooh it and proclaim to be way above it all.] I reckon that nowhere-but-nowhere are our...
Is this?
Before dropping yesterday’s Big Question, I leave you with one of my favourite quotes [already cited in yesterday’s comments], and a picture of one of my favourite statues for your contemplation:[Ahem]“Art that doesn’t deal with man’s relationship to God is...
If it makes you want to puke, is it art?
The Reykjavík Arts Festival kicked off this weekend. This year it focuses on “contemporary art”. EPI and YT checked out some of it. First stop, the Dieter Roth exhibition at the Reykjavík Art Museum, where the late Mr Roth’s floorboards are hung on the walls, along...
A series of remarkable events
TODAY1. EPI scaled Mt. Esja and called YT from the summit, first time this season.2. YT lounged in the sun for three hours at the Laugardalslaug pool, first time this season.3. Polly the cockatiel flew out into the Great Outdoors, first time ever.*WEATHERFantastico....
This post is not about Sellafield
RIGHT, WHO TOOK MY SIDEBAR?!My sidebar’s gone AWOL. It’s not even dropped to the bottom of the page, as it’s been known to do on previous occasions. It’s just totally vanished. Also, the post at the bottom of the page has been chopped in half.Do we have the Wrath of...
The Big Pond
Having toured the Sellafield Graveyard of Radioactive Waste, it was time to return to the Modern Age. After swinging our legs back over the knee-high box and allowing a space-age type gadget to test us for contamination, we left the dreary old building behind and...
