Lunascape

I just walked home from work beneath a spectacularly star specked night time sky...at 5:30pm The sun rises by lunch, skims the horizon, and then falls out of the sky. But we´re behind a mountain so there´s usually a small standing huddle in the kitchen at lunch eating soup and shuffling in sync with the moving rays while it floats between the two southern peaks for a half hour every day. So really day happens somewhere between 12 and 12:30.
It´s been a while since an update but we´ve been busy over here in the Monster House in Vallanes. Thanksgiving  lasted to the wee hours thanks to a generous supply of gentle German Martin´s home brewed honey beer and a warehouse of bonfire-bound broken pallets.  There´s been a good deal of nighttime baking and daytime cooking with goods fresh from harvest. It´s my wet dream of a food culture but the constant flow of gastronomic pleasure is swelling my figure to something between a husky viking and a narwhal. No joke. the States might also have whale meat at Christmas. In other news:

a) Erik has fallen in a river
b) ...

If you´re interested in the Icelandic goings on, the country is rewriting its constitution because the old one is essentially Denmark´s with the name changed.  They´ve elected a committee that was announced today, updates will be aflowing.  For other news in Icelandic politics, wiki the Best Party.  Still my favorite example of successful satire.  In the face of a collapsed economy and a horribly ineffectual local government, Reykjavik elected its local youtube sensation and comedian, Jon Gnarr.  Gnarr´s party promised at the outset to keep no promises made prior to the election, including free towels at public swimming pools, polar bear for the zoo, a Disneyland, and Transparent Sustainability among other vague but hot political jargon. Too many have heard me wax affectionately on Jon Gnarr, but if you haven´t, check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Party for the more in depth platform. Plus, they have a theme song. And it´s Tina Turner. Iceland, I do love you.

Also apparently Bobby Fischer disappeared to Iceland? Did anyone else know this?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/arts/06arts-REMAINSOFBOB_BRF.html?_r=1&ref=iceland

And if you want to to keep track of the monster house, here´s a link.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Monster-House/123593164356812


    and a photo the french photographer in residence took at 4:30 am during a crystalline full moon last week.

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I have to go scrape ginger from composted ginger peels and make ginger syrup while listening to a new age grungster play seasonal guitar inside the nightly rhythmic knitting circle. rustic.