Monthly Archives: November 2010

The World’s Largest Gummy Worm is 128 times more massive than a traditional gummy worm. Measuring twenty-six inches long and weighing in at approximately 3 pounds, the World’s Largest Gummy Worm is the most delicious 4,000-calorie candy worm in existence.

Oh look, there’s even a video.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RXmNRr8x7I&feature=player_embedded#!

How lovely.

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Canadian visual artist Kim Rugg has patience and glue, and her art requires a lot of both.

The front pages of the newspapers shown above, for example, were taken apart with an X-ACTO knife, letter by letter, then rearranged in alphabetical order.

So what is Kim Rugg at? She’s taking the piss out of the print media, what it says and how it says it.

Or, as the gallery owner puts it:

Through her re-appropriation of medium and meaning, she effectively highlights the innately slanted nature of the distribution of information as well as its messengers.

Yes.

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Kidding.

But he has laughed off the comparison storm.

Unlike Matthew Norman in the London Independent:

“What a Saturday night for The X Factor judges, with Louis Walsh telling Paije Richardson (short, plump, 19 and black) that he was “like a little Lenny Henry”. Let’s hope Louis suffers no backlash. It was solely Paije’s fault for turning up to rehearsals with a 20st ex-wife in a dog collar, and doing sensationally unfunny impressions of his old Jamaican mum.”

Dubliner Joe Fitzpatrick at the 50th anniversary of the ‘Niemba Ambush’ at Cathal Brugha barracks yesterday.

The attack cost the lives of nine Irish soldiers working in the Congo for the United Nations Peacekeeping Force.

Joe, now 70, from Cabra was one of just two survivors on the day.

Irish Can Be Proud Of Mission To Congo (Patsy McGarry, Irish Times)

The Irish Army In The Congo: The Far Battalions. Review (History Ireland)

(Photocall Ireland)