Just bought and listening to…
This group is similar to Sigur Ros, if you like them. Both are from Iceland. “Finally We Are No One” (Mum) Technorati Tags: music
Snow wonderland
I am perhaps the only one in the area who is happy with all the snow. The fluff is still perfectly strewn across most of the landscape. Everything outside the window reminds me of the full-color photographs on some Christmas cards I saw as a toddler back in the Fifties. (Yes, I was a toddler. … Continue reading Snow wonderland
Evacuating! Running for my life and all that.
I have just come back from an attempt to get out before the worst of our “worst blizzard of the year” falls in earnest, and stock up on those ever-mysterious and never fully defined “staples” at whichever grocery store I happened upon first. People never remember that it’s almost never as bad as “they” say … Continue reading Evacuating! Running for my life and all that.
qotd
Via » Commonplace boren.nu In the 1930s also, persons of good intentions accused this flamethrower [lit. cannon-igniter] Winston Churchill of being the principal danger towards world peace. In a sense, these people were correct. Churchill, in opposing Nazism, menaced world peace, a peace of which the terms had been defined by Hitler. The rejection of … Continue reading qotd
white pebble 