Author: Haukur Már Helgason
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Part V: If Critics Cluck, Coffins Croonk[Continued from Ungoo IV] Granted, much of traditional paper-based publication is currently in crisis….
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Part IV: Vital Irritation[Continued from Ungoo III] Until the advent of Iceland’s economic crisis, anno 2008, the conservative-liberal daily newspaper…
Short-Circuit to Idiocy
On Snorri Ásmundsson’s HatikvahIcelandic artist Snorri Ásmundsson recently distributed a video on YouTube, that has since been publicized through most…
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Part III: You Don’t ROFL Alone[Continued from Ungoo, Part II] Recently, scientists published the results of an experiment wherein they…
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Part II: The Hypothetical Ship of Fools Massacre[Continued from Ungoo, Part I] This joke used to circulate among philosophy departments,…
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Part IAt times, everyone involved in Icelandic culture seems to regard him or herself as its outsider. This appears to…
The Risks of Importing Fresh Meat
In 1985, Áramótaskaupið, the annual New Year’s revue on RÚV, included this sketch, about a toll guard’s ambition to combat…
Invasive Alien Species
Earlier this year, Grapevine reported that wild rabbits in Reykjavík and elsewhere around Iceland “will be removed”, with fittingly “little…
Giving Iceland
Back in April, Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson apparently made a blunder, when he proclaimed the opportunities ahead for Iceland,…
Masters Of Peace And Harmony
The Progressive Party went hunting for xenophobic votesOut with the new, in with the old: Municipal elections were held in…
Come And Meet The Members Of The Brand
After being hailed as the world’s radical wunderkind for a few years, Iceland left observers perplexed when the parties evidently…
WHY HE MADE ‘A9AINST’ AVAILABLE TO RENT ON-LINE
What happened in the winter 2008–2009 certainly does not amount to a revolution, but it definitely was an insurrection. Early…
Welcoming Winter
You move away. You’re elsewhere. You may move away repeatedly, you may stay away for long, your elsewhere becomes a…
Lots Of Pixels
There’s a short film programme in town. It’s a good idea: Couch fest films is an initiative that lines up…
Is It ‘A Nation Of Book-Lovers’? Is It ‘The Future Of Music’? No, It’s A Proto-Fascist Tanning Salon
The University of Reykjavík (not to be confused with the University of Iceland, located in Reykjavík) recently published the results…
The Universal Project Of Whale-Watching In Húsavík
A few years back fate brought me to Húsavík, a small town in northern Iceland. Fate? Well, friends were getting…
Racist? You Misunderstand
Since May 8, when 53-year-old Iranian Medhi Kavyanpoor attempted self-immolation in the Icelandic Red Cross offices, intending to give up…
The Koddu Controversy
Sicily 212 BCE. General Marcellus sends a soldier to find the mathematician Archimedes and bring him to his court, out…
The Gates
– Clubs and bars in Iceland have always been run by members of the Progressive party. – Dad! – Listen,…
The Erupting Insurrection
By one swift, decisive act, it has paralyzed Europe’s airline industries for almost a week, delayed 64 thousand flights (and…
Fruits Remain Forbidden
All those corrupted fruits, you see, were giving those involved a bad name. Not to mention the smell, the simple…
Our Murderous Fences
In twenty years, Iceland has granted four persons asylum—out of 500 applicants. Under ten percent of asylum claims are solved…
Machine Gun Democracy
If you are not from the part of the world that implicitly denotes itself as “the first world,” then whatever…
Catastrophology
Q: Will they ever stop speaking about billions? A: Blablabla … billions … blablabla-blabla … billions and billions and blabions,…