101 Reykjavik

Live blog from Iceland!

Arrived this morning at 6 am local time. It was blazingly day time. Blogging now at 11:30 pm. It is still blazingly day time...

Though I have set myself as a kind of arch-deacon of malaproprism for New Haven, I have to say it is great to get out of that racially divided, town-gown divided, rich-poor divided cess pit for a breath of clean Nordic air. Landing in Iceland was honestly like landing on an alien landscape; sans trees, sans grass, sans human traces save the odd road or house. The drive from Keflavik to Reyk. was like a journey back into my past, over horrible obstacles and bitter wastes towards a shining city of the future...

In any event, pictures will be posted in the next few days. We spent a nice afternoon at the great Reykjavik record shop 12 Tonar (amazingly they had no Nos Marquis in stock...), then wandered about enjoying the sites. Tomorrow we are going to do the tourist thing, then this weekend we are going to watch a concert featuring Mt. Eerie (nee Microphones) of Anacortes, WA.

The best part of all of this is that for once I actually look like a native. Moreso even than in Ireland people just seem to naturally assume I am one of them, which is better... So far no one has even asked me about GWB... More soon, so much more, so soon.