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GGB Q&A
So anyway, getting back to dreamy Gael García Bernal. He showed up, as promised, at the screening of The Motorcycle Diaries on Saturday night. Before it started some guy got up on stage and said “Welcome” and “after the movie there’s going to be a Q and A session” and...
Sidebar blues, a poem
What-oh-what has happened to my sidebar?!There it is, waaayyy down at the bottom of the page, down farWhat have I done to make it relocate??I have not gone near it all day longNot put up a picture that is way too wideOh sidebar, sidebar, why doest thou act so...
A joke
Maggie and John went to bed one night after having a fight. They were so pissed that they weren't speaking to each other. John had to get up early for an important meeting so he wrote a note that read: Wake me at six o'clock! and taped it to Maggie's bedside table....
Filmfest ramble
The first International Icelandic Film Festival is upon us and has YT all fired up. I love love love film festivals! The only downside to the next three weeks is how on earth will I see all the movies I want to see? The operating word here is international. We’ve had...
Dear friends in Blogland…
Could you please help me decide if this man, who of late has been firing odd missives into my comments box, is:a) Wackob) Brilliantc) Hilariousd) Flirting with me.Thank you.AS FOR TODAY'S WEATHERCertainly not as ghastly as yesterday - we had sub-zero temps and...
Birthday girl
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUHAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUHAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR AAHHAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOOOOOOOOOO......Yes, it's my baby's birthday and she's fourteen.On this day, fourteen years ago, I was lounging about big as a house in a German hospital, in a cold mechanical room...
Dream job
Can you believe that there are actually people in Iceland who get paid for sitting at some remote outpost somewhere, going outside five times a day and checking on the weather?OK, I'll grant that remote means REMOTE. Say in the outback, stuck in between a couple of...
Scaredycat
More indispensable wisdom brought to you from the door of the YT fridge:EPI’s daughter, ÁE, who recently returned from the UK, came over this morning bearing this trinket as a gift. It was immediately affixed to the door of the YT fridge, which as loyal Weather Report...
Crossing the threshold
Today is April 1, which means the Fools come out in the Western World. The Icelanders, never averse to having a laugh, enter into the spirit of this day with great gusto, going to elaborate lengths to play practical jokes on their fellow countrymen. The object of the...
The dead horse
Had my novel rejected for the umpteenth time yesterday [… the eleventh, to be precise]. It’s turned into the novel everybody likes but is unwilling to publish, to wit: “We thought that it was an excellent first novel, though in need of some work… that said, we were...
Guilt!
EPI gave me flak for writing nasty stuff about old Robert Plant and quite rightly too. It was wrong of me to slag him off by saying that he was old and has a saggy bum because after all, what do I know? I haven't seen the man in years. [That's to say, when I saw him...
Plant rant
EPI, being privy to my recent rediscovery of and super enthusiasm for Led Zeppelin – not to mention being a superexcellent boyfriend – went out last weekend and borrowed the DVD of The Song Remains the Same from one of his pals. Hoping of course to thrill and delight...
