IT WAS NOT ALL OUR FAULT
It started before I even came here. When I told the family I was going to Iceland, it made my slightly choleric grandfather burst out, ”Damn Icelanders – running away […
BEERMAN Meets Colossal Girl
It was only when I came that I realized I had made a colossal mistake. Colossal in every way. Her breasts were colossal. Which, in itself would not have been […]
RUR: Robots Upgrade Reykjavík
Recently the UN published some quite amazing predictions for the next two years: that the robotics industry would increase sevenfold in the next two years, and that there would lik
PADDY’S PATRICK’S DAY PARADE
The thing about America is it’s good at improving things. Whether it’s pizza, porno, war or religious holidays, Yankee ingenuity can take a good idea and make it a grand [&hell
Can Bobby Fisher be helped?
How Fischer Played his Part in Political Disputes But not between the countries you think Getting Bobby Fischer to Iceland has never been easy. Upon arriving in 1972, one of [&hell
What Are Friends For?
The facts: Fischer is wanted by the US for breaking the trade embargo with the former Yugoslavia in 1992 (and more recently, for tax evasion), is currently in custody in […]
The Tragedy of Bobby Fischer
“Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US than me. When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, […]
Will Fischer sue the Japanese?
Interview with Helgi Ólafsson, Grand Master of Chess and director of the Icelandic Chess School “I believe that [Fischer attorney John] Bosnitch plans on suing the Japanese auth
Low water mark
Hunter S. Thompson, the man who wrote these lines, died February 21 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 67. It is this observation, coupled with the quip “Joe Frazier, [&he
Transmetropolitan: Punching Out Fascists
If you can’t stand the idea of a future without Hunter S. do not despair. In 1997, Warren Ellis, a British graphic novelist, came upon the idea of depicting the […]
Lights within the Bog of Cats
“Mýrarljós” is loosely based on a play by Euripides called “Medea”; however, you don’t really have to know anything about the original tragedy in order to enjoy “Mýr
Hunter S. Thompson 1937-2005
Our Shaman has Gone Away By Jeremy Hogan Somewhere between the Barstow and hell, three universes past the back of the darkest recess of my imagination, I turned on the […]
The Cuban Revolution in Today’s World
Ögmundur Jónsson, volunteer for Pathfinder Publishing at the Havana International Book Fair last February will give a presentation on the Cuban revolution at Snarrót Radical Cen