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Mar. 1st, 2008
Icelandic Cuisine Anyone?
Mar. 1st, 2008 06:39 amFor 
kijjohnson, them old Norwegian cookbooks ain't seen nothing yet:
A Haunting Enigma of Violence and Chaos
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: February 29, 2008
kijjohnson, them old Norwegian cookbooks ain't seen nothing yet:A Haunting Enigma of Violence and Chaos
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: February 29, 2008
The picture of Iceland that emerges in Baltasar Kormákur’s “Jar City” is vivid and powerful but not something the country’s tourist board would be likely to endorse. The landscape has its austere poetry to be sure — mountains framing the apartment blocks of Reykjavik, spits of volcanic rock jutting into a churning sea — but a fog of damp unhappiness seems to pervade every face and conversation.
And yet by the end of this film, based on a popular mystery novel by Arnaldur Indridason, it is hard not to feel a certain affection for the place. Partly this is because Mr. Kormákur’s fondness for Iceland and its stoical, surname-free people is evident from start to finish. His hero, in particular, a homicide detective named Erlendur (Ingvar E. Sigurdsson), takes on the features of a national paragon. He enjoys traditional Icelandic cuisine — “The usual?” a takeout server asks him; “Yes, I’ll have a sheep’s head” is the reply — and carries himself with a weary dignity that makes most of Ingmar Bergman’s characters seem frivolous by comparison.
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Team McGovern?
Mar. 1st, 2008 06:24 pm’72 McGovern Team Rallies for One of Its Own: Clinton
By JULIE BOSMAN
Just sayin' that if I wuz gonna put a team together, I'm not sure that's the team I'd put together to carry any state.
By JULIE BOSMAN
AUSTIN, Tex. — Frank Herrera, a prominent lawyer in Texas, was sitting at home two Saturdays ago when he received a telephone call.
The voice at the end of the line was that of an old friend from Senator George McGovern’s 1972 presidential campaign, who had since become the godfather, at least to some, of the Democratic Party.
“ ‘We’ve been with you all these years,’ ” former President Bill Clinton said, according to Mr. Herrera. “ ‘Now the time has come for you to be with us.’ ”
Mr. Herrera, who had up to that point been undecided in the Democratic race, promptly pledged his support to the Clintons. “The don never asks for a second favor when the first one has been rejected,” he said. More
Just sayin' that if I wuz gonna put a team together, I'm not sure that's the team I'd put together to carry any state.