From the monthly archives:

October 2006

If it makes you want to pee, is it art?

October 31, 2006

Here’s a wee story from the onions-protruding-from-the-anus school of fine arts. Picture this: You’re a first-year student in the Drama Department at the Iceland Academy for the Arts. You’re in a class entitled ‘Education and Praxis’ and your group of three guys and one girl has one hour to come up with a scenario depicting [...]

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Don’t they come with a manual?

October 29, 2006

Saturday afternoon. Young AAH approaches her mother in the kitchen. AAH: Can I sleep over at [boyfriends’] tonight? YT: [...?] AAH: [hastily] His parents will be home. His mother wants to talk to you. YT: So you mean … sleep in separate rooms? AAH: [indignant] No… YT: Sleep together? AAH: Well, you know, not sleep [...]

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Don’t get out much, but when I do…

October 28, 2006

Today was one of those days that managed to be action-packed and full of fun and completely free of stress. [Well, almost. There was one moment when we were just going out the door and were already very late and EPI’s cell phone rang and he tried to talk intensively on it with his shoulder [...]

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Behold my new template

October 27, 2006

I confess: I am really an html genius. Masquerading as a weathergirl. Huzzah!!

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Being still is not an option

October 26, 2006

AAH brought home the new Outkast, and now I cannot stop dancing to this.* RAINY SLEETY WINDY LESS COLD… Is the summary of today’s weather. It rained buckets all day long, except when it turned to sleet; it was windy but not as cold as yesterday. Right now 2°C; sunrise was at 08.51, sunset at [...]

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The mystery of the disappearing neighbours

October 25, 2006

Remember my neighbours? The ones with the ferocious dog, the tattooed arms and the unholy shouting in the night? The ones from this post? Curiously, just a few days after that post appeared, my neighbours … disappeared. That is to say, they no longer appeared to be residing in their flat. No screams in the [...]

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Beware the dreaded Reykjavík syndrome!

October 24, 2006

My favourite cartoonist was at it again today in Blaðið. As regular readers may recall, Iceland recently signed a new defense agreement with the US and – literally – only two people in Iceland know what it’s about. [And no - that's not the joke, although it's pretty hilarious when you think about it. Or [...]

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Untitled post befitting my tremendous importance as an Artiste, in which I mention my second blogaversary

October 22, 2006

Being a lazy bum, I did not get out to see any of a) the Iceland Airwaves festival, b) the Sequences festival c) the Canadian cultural festival, all of which were on simultaneously this weekend. Not so old Harrison Ford, who turned up on the cube last Thursday, went to dinner at Austur Indía fjélagið [...]

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What’s whale worth?

October 18, 2006

So Iceland decided that it would resume commercial whaling at midnight last night. The announcement came more or less out of the blue [there had been talk of it, but personally I didn’t think it would happen so soon], and without fanfare. There was certainly a flurry of activity in its wake – the media [...]

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Ono!

October 17, 2006

Last week, when Yoko Ono was here doing her peace column thing, who should also turn up on the ice cube* but one May Pang, who happened to be the woman John Lennon took up with when he and Yoko broke up all those years ago [she was actually their personal assistant, and it was [...]

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