Apr 6, 2005 | Uncategorized |
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...
Apr 5, 2005 | Uncategorized |
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...
Apr 3, 2005 | Uncategorized |
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...
Apr 1, 2005 | Uncategorized |
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...
Mar 31, 2005 | Uncategorized |
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...
Mar 30, 2005 | Uncategorized |
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...
