Have always been fascinated by Iceland, in a probably will never get there kind of way (which is strange for me being the travelling boy that I am). Huge lava fields and glaciers and 95% of the country being uninhabitable and the thought of tall blonde milk skinned Icelandic girls LOL - oh, and the Tom Clancy book Red Storm Rising, where Iceland played an important part (yeah, sure Tom, while NATO and the Warsaw Pact are duking it out in West Germany, where the war of attrition described seemed plausible, one lone American navy person evades four entire divisions of the Red Guard to let Washington know that Iceland has fallen, yeah right LOL). But I digress.
And there's Bjork, have Human Behaviour bouncing around my head at the moment, mmm Triple J Top 100 of 1993- those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end etc etc :) Memories though of that blissful time the couple of years after high school, and socialising the most I have EVER done in my life :) Maybe I will drag out those old diaries and actually take the rose coloured glasses off and realise I was doing just as much 'does she like me, I hope she does, but oh, she has a boyfriend etc' worrying as I do nowadays. Ah, but Pauly, you were less cynical back then - at least about relationships lol, you were sure that NO GIRL liked you. It might have been tougher since your self esteem started coming up from rock bottom and thinking you had chances LOL... But I digress again.
Anyways, Bjork kind of doesn't fit into the tall leggy milk white skin blonde haired women of Nordic, Scandanavian or Icelandic stereotype, and with that voice, eh if only she used it for good ALL the time LOL. But she is fascinating at least. One final digression, on the train with SW and KB2 last night, was told in general conversation that MG is leaving to go overseas! Oh no, my eye candy at work is going LOL - although it might uncomplicate certain aspects of my life - and she doesn't know I'm alive anyways. Still, being invited to her leaving drinks, and wishing for a Casablanca type ending blah blah, would be nice hehehe. And I wonder if any of my leaving for overseas things have left anybody feeling this way about me :)
Anyways, back to Iceland. I mention it because the latest series of Amazing Race had a pitstop there, and this article on the BBC. Pretty uneventful article, drugs in a Western city, but just the location has me fascinated, in the old way that Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego on the Commodore 64 at school used to get me. With the monochrome Chinese pagoda or Mount Fuji etc behind the chief or Carmen's sidekicks LOL. Location location location - maybe my wanderlust first started there?
All that buildup for a quiet corner of the BBC website I hear any readers in hear thinking LOL, well anyone thinking that reminds me of a Seinfeld episode, where Jerry lost $1500 at the laundromat. The owner points to the sign that says 'No Responsibility Taken' and then goes on about his country and the constitution. I have SO got to get Series Three on DVD - hmm, V says to wait until my birthday in April... can I wait that long LOL.
Hmm, have you noticed how since the election Iraq seems to have fallen off the radar? 'Only' six soldiers have died there this month so far, which is a much better daily average than any recent month. Doonesbury is on it's usual form this week, even though on Sunday it said it would 'withdraw' remaining characters from Iraq - if only real life were that easy, huh.
As Iraq is 'quietening down', Condi Rice is in Europe telling everyone who will listen that Iran is evil. But no mention of North Korea, who already probably have ten nukes ready to use. Of course, the West has been wrong about WMD before, but Kim Jong Il is a different sort of nutter to Saddam. Or, at least, that's what I learnt from Team America World Police LOL LOL. And Condi, talk all you like about Iran, but really, isn't three wars - Afghanistan, Al Qaeda and Iraq - on the go at once, the Iron Curtain on the Korean peninsula, and the occasional humanitarian mission in Africa or Indonesia enough? How overstretched do you want your boys (I use the term in its loosest fashion) to be?
Oh, and the latest nominee for most likely failed state in the next decade is Nepal. Lots of strong competition from Congo, but Nepal is heading for a fall anytime soon. The military has given up on the countryside to the Maoist rebels, who aren't anywhere near the pulling power of Che Guevara or anything. Read a report last week that the rebels were killing school teachers who wouldn't teach the Maoist manifesto in classrooms. Bye bye education system. Not sure whether they are as loopy as the Khmer Rouge, but they are very very destabilising - failed state here we come! And the king (who only got the job after his nephew killed most of the rest of the royal family) is clamping down hard on whatever he can...
From that article about Condolezza and Iran -
'She wanted to see the spread of democracy not only in Iran but throughout the Middle East. But she acknowledged it could take time.
This first black female secretary of state said US history had taught her that. "When the founding fathers said 'We the people', they didn't mean me."'
No, no, don't worry, I'm not a Condi convert, lol I like that phrase though, but I just thought it was well put that last sentence.
Mmm, Sara Cox. Even though it's years since I was in the UK, just thinking of her and the husky voice and the body and the blokette persona she has (at least from what I saw of her) that makes as the reporter says, she 'acts as if she's in an advert for how much fun you can have drinking Guinness'. A bloke's girl then LOL, talking footy with you and how much your ex was a douche bag rather than doing her nails with the other girls. That's the persona she gave out, and OMG that voice, where's that BBC Radio One link LOL, now if she's on at breakfast in the UK, with the timezones... divide by three and carry the one... well, let's just say she has a nice voice LOL. And I'm sure I can find some pics of her in a bikini somewhere online, even if it is just as 'tame' as FHM or something hehehe...
Okies, later peeps
Pauly
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