Saturday, 17 April 2010

I hate Iceland!


"Hate" may be a little strong, though.  More like "very annoyed."

Apr 17, 2010 6:54:32 AM

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P.T. Smith

That is not a hand-held mic he is using, and I find that, for some odd reason, to be awesome.

Posted by: P.T. Smith | Saturday, 17 April 2010 at 08:26 AM

tomemos

Someone asked me why you went to England, and I said, "I think he went to England to get caught in a volcanic eruption."

Posted by: tomemos | Saturday, 17 April 2010 at 11:21 AM

SEK

Cum hoc ergo propter hoc and all, but I'll be damned if I'm not going to take credit for it.

Posted by: SEK | Saturday, 17 April 2010 at 11:33 AM

Ahistoricality

Sure looks like he's holding it in his hand. It's oddly large and articulated, as though it were a repurposed boom mike; is that what you meant?

Apparently a case of a soccer hooligan in the wild....

Posted by: Ahistoricality | Saturday, 17 April 2010 at 11:39 AM

The Constructivist

Wait, that wasn't Scott?

Posted by: The Constructivist | Saturday, 17 April 2010 at 03:08 PM

P.T. Smith

Sure looks like he's holding it in his hand. It's oddly large and articulated, as though it were a repurposed boom mike; is that what you meant?

Yeah, the mic is held in his hand, but I'm fairly certain the thing is a boom mic.

Posted by: P.T. Smith | Saturday, 17 April 2010 at 08:52 PM

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I've run away to England, I have. I apologize for not writing more, but I've been out and about in beautiful England: That's a photograph I took this morning, and as you can see, the evidence that I'm in the midst of an impending apocalypse is a little thin on the ground. That's the grand irony of Eyjafjallajoekull's wrath: it has turned England into Southern California, which annoys me immensely, as I came here with the expectation of weather—brought an umbrella and everything—but here I am sitting in 72 degree weather with neither a cloud nor contrail in the sky. It's a beautiful day, and the natives are right to be enthused, but you can understand my disappointment. This apocalypse simply doesn't feel very apocalyptic, which is itself ironic, given that when I was visiting Adam Roberts the other day I argued that Updike's Toward the End of Time failed as a novel because its post-apocalyptic narratives were pre-apocalyptically mundane. My argument can be condensed into a sentence: the trope of 9/10-type thought is effective because America reinvented itself as a police state the next day. That's what that apocalypse wrought. When something this large happens, life doesn't simply continue as if nothing happened except in this case. Finally, to allay some of the concerns I've received via email: I'm safe and secure and not emptying my savings into some hotel chain's coffers. I'm staying with a friend and will be until Iceland ceases its offensive against the good people of Europe.

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