Kári Tulinius
@kattullus
Yet another goddamn Icelandic writer.
all else aside, it is remarkable that the most read article on a major news website boils down to “ancient greek translator critiques billion dollar film”
I realize that whining about Google is getting old, but I was startled to see that these sites were results 4 through 7 (2 of the top 3 were to Wikipedia, one of whom was pertinent) for ‘homer melesigenes’ (the latter being Homer’s birth name in ancient tradition). Avoiding slop was Google‘s point.
I find it fascinating how books can come in and out of fashion. A quarter-century ago “The Education of Henry Adams” was anointed as the greatest English-language non-fiction book of the 20th Century. Today I wonder if it would even make the top hundred. I doubt half of the top ten would, actually.
I find it absolutely fascinating that when the Saudi nuclear deal was announced most of the big American news media organizations didn’t pick up on how much this would blow up in Trump’s face immediatel and just treated it as a normal foreign affairs story
even cynical ol’ me thought this couldn’t be real so i checked it‘s real
I’ve noticed that it includes “books” as a tab when it detects a book title, but obscures it when it doesn’t
í eftirmiðdaginn á morgun verðum við borgarbúar eins og kýr sem sleppt er úr fjósi að vori
RÚV leyfir Argentínu ekki einu sinni að fá núll mörk, heldur mínus mörk hart en sanngjarnt
vanished from my mind when, on June 22nd my daughter was born. Then one day, when she was 3 or 4 months old, I came across Michael O’Loughlin’s book, and turned to the poem I had recited. Then I looked at the title of the next one and dropped the book in surprise. The poem had worked after all. 3/3
I wrote about the strangely normal spectacle that is the third place playoff, which breaks up the narrative of the World Cup in odd ways.
me: in olden times people would blame the improper worship of the gods for national misfortunes, but in today’s world that doesn’t happen today’s world:
the story of how I ended up watching the worst match ever played in the company of a cat who was a prince of hell in feline form click through for the full story and the reason why I will never root for Switzerland in football
I was going to post “Carlos Bilardo must be rolling over in his grave” but then decided to check whether the great World Cup winning manager was alive or not (still living) Yes, Google, these are the two most notable things about Carlos Bilardo, in the correct order of importance
The only time I've run across a phrase like "god's noble experiment" to describe anything about the US, was Herbert Hoover saying prohibition was a "noble experiment". I know Google isn't terribly reliable these days, but I can't find any source other than Schumer. Does anyone know where he got it?
The Foundation of Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) recently did a study where they presented what they considered to be two equivalent sets of views, one left-wing, the other right-wing. That they consider these views equivalent to each other tells you everything you need to know about them.
Classified ads from the East Village Other in 1966. Swedenborgian reading room, underground babysitter, holy clock radio, the gnostic-alchemical serpent etc.
Well, I got that pretty wrong, and in the interest of being wrong again, here’s my overthought knockouts bracket, based on the actual results of the group stage.
The Icelandic commentator for Japan vs Sweden got Daniel Svensson confused with Jesper Karlström not even fellow Nordics can tell those Swedes apart
ég í fyrsta sinn sem ég sá svona skilaboð: ugh, á hvers konar einfeldninga virkar þetta eiginlega? ég í dag: nei, þakka þér, grjónagrautspakkning, ég hefði ekki getað þetta án þín!
I decided to do one of these too. I ended up surprising myself, which means my heart and head aren’t aligned. The one that surprised me most is that while I think Côte d’Ivoire are underestimated, I’d be flabbergasted if they made the final. But every step that got me there was thought through.