Lattice of Coincidence: Icelandic Handball: Magic Elves, Cured Shark and Existentialism

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Icelandic Handball: Magic Elves, Cured Shark and Existentialism

4 comments:

Smiff said...: I have been to Iceland.

The national past-time is sitting in hot springs that if it the temp was one degree higher your flesh would drop off.

Their very thick yogurt is named Skyr.

Lots of different fish in cans.

To stay at the Salvation Army in Reykjavík cost $5. Though this was 1985.

It was cold there - in August.

Not the place to be if you're broke like we were. And we really wanted to go to the Chinese restaurant and ask them, "Why the fuck did you move to Iceland?"; August 21, 2008 at 11:47 PM
Smiff said...: Where K-Mad can move after McCain is elected:

Salvation Army Guesthouse

A single room is 6,600 Kroner a night - $88. A triple room--were we stayed--is $154. Looks like prices have gone up a little, but this is still apparently cheap for Iceland. Monthly single rate of $400 though... go for the elves, stay for the skyr!; August 22, 2008 at 12:34 AM
k-mad said...: The Salvation Army - go for the ministering to the poor, stay for the hating on the gays.

The Icelanders were smart to pick a remote island with lots of volcanic s#i+ blowing up - it keeps everybody away.; August 22, 2008 at 8:52 AM
Smiff said...: Hey, i thought that was the Catholics motto?; August 22, 2008 at 12:41 PM

A lotta people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a buncha unconnected incidences and things. They don't realize that there's this like lattice of coincidence that lays on top of everything. I'll give ya an example, show ya what I mean. Suppose you're thinking about a plate of shrimp. Suddenly somebody will say like, "plate" -- or "shrimp" -- or "plate of shrimp" -- out of the blue, no explanation. No point looking for one either. It's all part of a cosmic unconsciousness.

"You know the way everybody's into weirdness right now? Books in all the supermarkets about Bermuda Triangles, UFOs, how the Mayans invented television, that kind of thing? Well the way I see it it's exactly the same. There ain't no difference between a flying saucer and a time machine.... People get so hung up on specifics, they miss out on seeing the whole thing. Take South America for example. In South America, thousands of people go missing every year. Nobody knows where they go. They just like disappear. But if you think about it for a minute, you realize something: there had to be a time when there was no people right? Well, where did all these people come from? Hmm? I'll tell you where: the future. Where did all these people disappear to: hmmm? the past. How did they get there? Flying saucers, which are really... yeah, you got it! Time machines!"

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Thursday, August 21, 2008

Icelandic Handball: Magic Elves, Cured Shark and Existentialism

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