Comments on: Aloneness / Loneliness?

By: J

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:01:38 +0000

Hey Alan,

Send me a mailing address in an email and I’ll get you a copy of the new CD of guests on the show. We just got them from the press Friday and I could get one out in the next day or two.

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Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:59:58 +0000

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By: Harriet

Harriet — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:04:37 +0000

Once again, I enjoy reading your reflections on a place that I don’t know anything about. Your pictures are amazing! Did you see where Al Roeker from the Today Show is in Iceland this week? I was excited to see him this morning at the glacier you visited! See if you can find him…

By: Carl Berger

Carl Berger — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:49:07 +0000

I’ve little to add to the comments above except to say….”You rock, good buddy!”

By: Barbara Ganley

Barbara Ganley — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:05:07 +0000

A beautiful post, Alan, and quite stunning when read next to your “Fast train” post from a few weeks ago. Together they capture such extremes of human place, each bringing out a powerful reflection. When we are thrown out of what is familiar, we are given glimpses of our true mettle, I think. You are in contact with your writer self in both places, stretched but not overwhelmed by either. I for one wonder how I would do in these places.

Thanks for these posts, for taking us with you on your adventures into landscape and self.

By: J

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:34:22 +0000

We just finished putting together a 25th anniversary CD of live on-air guests that will be coming out soon. He started the show back in ‘83 not long after he moved here from Chicago. He said there’s an annual blues festival in Reykjavik: http://www.blues.is/english.htm, but not until April.

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:11:21 +0000

@angelesb: Hi Angeles – Although Iceland looks far north on a map, keep in mind there is a flow of warm water that originates down near the equator that keeps temperatures more temperate than you would think, although a little colder than Mexico.

The stores have almost every kind of food one would need and the only problem is I cannot read a lot of the labels. Most of their produce is imported but I have also seen a lot of greenhouses where I guess they may grow some. There is plenty of meat here too, as I am surrounded my many ranches of cattle and sheep. And more seafood than you can imagine.

Thanks for writing.

By: angelesb

angelesb — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:34:17 +0000

Hi Alan,
I’ve followed your posts and read since you arrived to Iceland.
Don’t feel alone, there are people like me , really far away but not too much, who are with you.
I enjoyed your descriptions of Iceland and thinking about how are stores there and what can you buy in the stores, is everything cold? Don’t laugh, it’s just I don’t have any idea
Continue please, posting and telling us how life is there.
Hugs from Mexico
angelesb

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:11:30 +0000

@J: Hi Jen! Nice to cross tracks. Bob is fast; I just blogged that this morning, but I have been a long time fan, since I landed in the valley in the late 1980s.

This was my own connection; a friend in Phoenix knows the house owner, so he connected me. I was here also back in 2000 do to some workshops.

I cant say I’m up always to catch the shows live! It is 7 hours later here

By: J

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:33:51 +0000

Hi Alan, again your tracks show up in my life. We met (in person) at the MCC Tech Conference after-party a few months ago, but had met online when I was at SCC years ago when you were doing tech stuff in the MCCCD . Bob (Those Lowdown Blues) just forwarded me the link to your Iceland blog that he came across in his regular Googling of his name; my other MCCCD gig besides teaching is part-time production work for the show. He was excited to know that someone was listening from Iceland and I had to tell him that you were an Arizona dog out wandering. Thanks from both of us (and Scott Williams) for the blog mention and link. I’m envious! Beautiful photos. Did Anna Thorlaks…. have something to do with this or do you have another Icelandic connection?