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The Reykjavík Grapevine
Issue 12 — 2010
Editorial | Haukur S Magnússon
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THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO LIFE, TRAVEL & ENTERTAINMENT IN ICELANDYOUR FREE COPY
Issue 12 – August 13 - 26 – 2010
ICELANDIC FASHION
& DESIGN IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Moving Icelandic design
beyond fulled wool and
fish skin.
ECONOMICS
Iceland's Post-Crash Sale
POLITICS
Davíð Oddsson
On The Warpath
ACROBATICS
The Circus Comes To Town
SHOPPING
Fun Times At The Mall
TRAVEL
Blissful Obscurity
PLUS
ACTIVISM
Iceland's funniest
asst. nurse
gets arrested
POLITICS
That whole
Magma thing
so far...
MUSIC
We interview
a violinmaker!
DEEP THOUGHT
Do humans
'own' nature?
TRAVEL
Foxes, puppets, pools and peril
PLUS
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Boy, the summer of 2010 has been crammed full of festivals. There's barely time to sleep or any-
thing, what with all the three-day youth art golf music theatre clown performance gardening fish
pottery celebrations that seem to go on every weekend. Phew. It's been a busy summer, and there's
more to come, so we decided to write up some of these past parties for your enjoyment. Page 19
Culture Night Schedule inside!
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Hey guess what! After editing thirty consecutive
issues, I am finally quitting this dumb job!
No, not really. But I am getting a vacation. This
is great news to me as frankly, I am really tired. I
know Grapevine looks all effortless and nonchalant
and happy crappy and stuff, but making it really
does take a lot of work. Especially when we’re in
bi-weekly mode and it’s just one issue after another,
interspersed with phone calls and e-mails from
angry and demanding folks that want our help in
selling their snake oil.
It wears you out, it really does. At times I’ve felt like
I was just losing it, y’know, feeling the urge to yell
at everyone and slam doors and go to my room and
listen to some KoRn and feel sorry for myself. LIFE IS
SO HARD! WAAAA! IT’S NOT FAIR! AND SO ON!
Luckily, that didn’t happen too many times, and now
I am going on vacation to SUNNY PHILADELPHIA,
so I probably won’t throw any major tantrums for
another thirty issues or so. Hopefully.
It got me thinking though. Even though I think my
job is pretty hard and all (I still really, really like it),
it’s probably nothing compared to what the good
folks in our government are faced with. Look. I know
I am always ragging on them for being lazy and
incompetent and not knowing how to use e-mail and
stuff, but you still gotta feel for these people.
I hear they’re always on the job. That some of
them have stopped exercising and sleeping, that
they’re always on the verge of nervous and mental
exhaustion, that they never meet their families. Well
some of them anyway. The hardworking ones.
And, you know, the task they’re faced with is a pretty
big one. Let us not forget that by the time they took
over, the nation was pretty much in shambles after
being raped by ideologues, banksters and corruption
for at least two decades. Cleaning that shit up has
got to be a task.
I’m not really sure where I’m going with this. Am I
implying that it’s maybe time to cut our government
some slack, try showing faith in them and letting
them do their job for a while without second
guessing everything they get up to? I don’t know?
That sure doesn’t sound like me.
I just feel like something’s gotta change, you know.
Sometimes feel like our entire nation is locked
up in its room, refusing to take out the trash,
blasting some KoRn while blogging about how
misunderstood it is.
Maybe that’s fitting though. Considering we only
scored independence like sixty years ago, Iceland is
very much a nation in its teens.
Too bad goddamn teenagers are all way self-
absorbed and annoying and like really shitty music.
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