Beauties Model Sealskins in all of their Glories
Photographer Paul Shoul always tries to get backstage, he goes behind the scenes to find the best shots. Here he found the gorgeous Greenlanders getting in and of their sealskins. The fashion show was followed by a plea from an Inuit woman, asking Europe and the US to allow importation […]
Millers Falls Was Rocking with the Reprobates
Millers Falls was rocking last night, as the Reprobates filled the entire back from of a bar once known as Equis, practically the only action in this one-horse burg that time long ago forgot. Cafe regular David Lenson had emailed a note about the gig, and when Bill and I […]
NBC’s Blatant Product Placement–It’s a Joke, But…
We’ve reached a new clever low in television. It’s called the product placement within the product placement joke. Tonight I was watching the highest rated comedy on GE-owned NBC, and the show started with a bit where Alec Baldwin was on a video being shown to the writers of a […]
Greenland Story In this Week’s Advocate
Life as a cafe and website owner is exciting. You never know who’s gonna call or who is going to pop into the cafe. We have been sweating it out with our transition to a new improved web hosting service that has caused us some downtime and hairpulling, but we […]
Slackers Can Hide, from the Waist Down
Darren Garnick writes in today’s Boston Herald about how slackers can look like big shots…at least from the waist up….if they need to sit in front of a videocamera at a teleconference. Enter the Businessbib. “Think paper dolls without the pants. The “Bib” is a Velcro-enclosed half-suit meant to be […]
Luggage Lost: It’s a Slippery Slope
It only gets worse for travelers, according to today’s NY Times. Luggage is being lost and it is hard for the airlines to catch up. “Since Aug. 10, when a ban on most carry-on liquids sent the amount of checked luggage soaring, airlines have been misplacing many more bags, and […]
Bradley Was a Symbol of Sunday Nights
“I’m Ed Bradley. I’m Morley Safer. I’m Lesley Stahl with another edition of Sixty Minutes. ” If anything in my life symbolizes Sunday nights, those words surely do. We heard this week about the passing of Ed Bradley, the lone black man among the legendary 60 Minutes crew, the guy […]
Slipping and Sliding down Sisimiut’s Roads
People in Greenland don’t let the cold stop them from living their active, busy lives. Children in daycare trundle out of the classroom into the playground, sliding down hills and enjoying time in the snow. Men ride by on bicycles, and most of the people walk rather than drive. Since […]
Take Her, She’s Yours for the Night
It feels great to be back home in my own office at the gonomad cafe. With my luxuriously large double monitors, my reliable fastinternet connection, and the fast paced energy of the cafe out front. Kent is off on another voyage, this time to Sydney and Tahiti, soon the old […]
At Nuuk’s Barista Web Cafe, a Chance to Catch Up
We are comfy in an internet cafe called Barista in downtown Nuuk. This little cafe with 36 computers has excellent lattes and upstairs the computers are all arranged four to a table with the flat screens facing out on all four sides. I am more than a bit flumuxed over […]
A Plea for Sealskins in Greenland
We have reached the capital of Greenland, Nuuk, population 15,000. Wohoo! We were impressed with all of the large buildings as we drove from the airport to the city center. Then upon arrival we were wisked off to a reception where the featured entertainment was one of Greenland’s top pop […]
A War Hero’s Stories in the Hotel Sisimiut Bar
Outside the window of the Somandshjemmet, or seaman’s home, horses are standing in the snow. They don’t move much, unlike the dogs who yap and tug at their chains. These three brown horses with their thick fur coats stand motionless. It makes me think of what the temperature must be–about […]
The Last Fisherman Hangs on in Assaqutaq
What a day we had in Glorious Greenland! I am very excited about the nascent tourist business that will soon turn into something very significant when Air Greenland begins its twice-weekly flight from Baltimore to Greenland in late May ’07. You can feel that the country is ready to welcome […]
Greenland Lets its Laundry Hang Out
In Greenland everyone hangs out their laundry, even during snowstorms…we are in Sisimiut, on the coast and here there is a year round harbor. The big employer is Royal Greenland they process shrimp and halibut but the cod is scarce. Today we heard about a trade school where people can […]
The Yip, Yap, Howl of Greenland’s Sledge Dogs
We took a short crash course tonight in Greenlandic: in this language there are only 20 letters and three vowels…and a sound that is common for two L’s is sort of like the sound someone with a lisp makes. Greenland is fantastic: The food has been first rate, fresh fish, […]
A First Mate’s Story
We took a boatline called Disko Line out into the channel, and passed huge icebergs and small chunks of ice as we made our way out of a long fjord. Greenland’s size and immensity makes you feel small and insignificant. The first mate we met in up in the helm […]
Navigating the Fjords to the Edge of the Polar Ice
We boarded a red boat in Ilulissat harbor, it was snowing quite hard. The boats deck was slippery with snow, and the captain and his crew were topside, inside their quarters you could see a flat screen with the map of the glaciers and in front his two radar screens, […]
Ilulissat’s Famous Icefjord Awaits
A dinner of Greenlandic food was consumed at 10 pm tonight. Fin whale, smoked salmon and halibut, raindeer slices (tender like beef), turnips, fried potatoes, white wine, (there has been lots of wine here) We flew in during a snowstorm to Ilulissat, a town of 4500 with 3000 sled dogs. […]