I don't usually share stuff in Icelandic but I want this to be seen.

My friend Ásgeir, poet and cultural critic, died last week. We had known each other since 1991 when I was twelve and he was fifteen. I tried to paint a picture of him and our relationship.

Traditionally such obituaries are published in the newspaper Morgunblaðið. Ásgeir used to work there and one of the last thing he published was a scathing indictment of the incoming editor, and former Prime Minister of Iceland, Davíð Oddsson. While most people kept their heads down hoping to be spared Ásgeir rose to the occasion.

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I wonder what is the history of this little slice of building. Seen on my little walk into Long Melford.

#photography

6 December 1921 | A Pole, Marian Kołodziej, was born in Raszków.

Deported to #Auschwitz from Tarnów on 14 June 1940 in the first transport of Poles to the camp.
No. 432
He survived.
After the war he was a painter & stage designer.
Author of monumental „Negatives of Memory”.

What is 'excessive reposting'? When I came here a bit over two years ago people were all like 'retoot, retoot, retoot'. Has it changed? Is it all about 'me' now?

Ok, inspired by my new profile picture, I think it's time to tell a story. This was inspired by a picture I saw on Twitter, I think by Skulls and Sheets, who sadly doesn't post here any more. I basically made the story up from tweet to tweet. Buckle up for the story of Mari and the corgi.

New seasonally appropriate profile pic in its full glory.

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