Reykjavík Grapevine - 08.01.2010, Blaðsíða 32

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YOUR ESSEnTIal gUIDE TO lIFE, TRavEl anD EnTERTaInmEnT In ICElanD
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PAGE 28:
It’s a good thing Ragnar’s model
was wearing a Speedo – I’d
hate to imagine the local talk if
he’d been posing naked for six
months.
Haraldur Jónsson and Birta Guðjónsdóttir dis-
cuss the year in Icelandic arts and swimwear.
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...how they got stuck in a locked
cab with a Robert de Niro-like
boozed up maniac behind the
wheel, how they ended up pants-
less in some random house or
how they received their best-ever
blowjob in the trunk of an SUV.
Yeah, Easter in Ísafjörður sounds alright.
PAGE 10:
In a matter of weeks the paper
turned into a vehicle for Oddsson
and his cronies, the subscribers
disappeared in droves and now
little remains of the old prestige.
This is not only a battle for politi-
cal power, but also for what will
be written in the history books.Egill
Helgason’s inaugural column for the
Grapevine is a pretty darn good read...
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Davíð Oddsson is the only person
who comes with flying colours
out of the Icelandic debacle. He
is the only one who resisted the
oligarchs that contributed so
much to the downfall of Iceland.
Well-known (or notorious) media
personalities like Egill Helgason,
for example, did not want to take
sides in the 2004 struggle be-
tween Davíð Oddsson and the
oligarchs.
...so is Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson’s com-
mentary on 2009.
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Horrifying and tasteless, just what
Iceland deserves.
And Sindri Eldon’s number one Icelandic record
of 2009 is...
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