Monthly Archives: March 2011

Last night Chompsky wrote in his schoolbook French to Stephane Régy, editor of So Foot, the magazine which conducted that interview with Stephen Ireland. Chomps wanted to know if the magazine had a recording of the meeting with Ireland, who has since claimed he was misquoted.

Bonsoir Stephane Régy,
Je travaille pour un site web (un journal) www.broadsheet.ie et je fais un article de l’interview avec Stephen Ireland. Je voulais savoir si vous avez l’enregistrement de cette interview? Je
serais tres obligé de me répondre.
Merci d’avance,
Chompsky

At midnight last night Monsoir Régy, possibly unaware he was corresponding with a badly drawn cartoon dog, responded:

Bonsoir Chompsky,

Merci pour votre message. Oui, nous avons bien l’enregistrement decette interview, qui confirme les propos de Stephen Ireland – lequel, si vous lisez bien ses réactions depuis la publication de l’interview, n’a jamais dit qu’il ne les avait pas tenus…

Bien à vous

Stéphane

Translation: “Thanks for your message. Yes, we have for sure got the tape recording of the interview which confirms Stephen Ireland’s comments. If you read what he said since the publication of the interview, he never said that these weren’t his words.'”

Chompsky has now asked for a transcript of the interview.

More as he gets it.

Brian Dettmer carves away sections of the pages in old books, one at a time – exposing the contents to create hyper-detailed impressionistic homages to the original material.

Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books, or dictionaries is relocated or implanted, only removed.

Dettmer manipulates the pages and spines to form the shape of his sculptures. He also folds, bends, rolls, and stacks multiple books to create completely original sculptural forms.

“My work is a collaboration with the existing material and its past creators and the completed pieces expose new relationships of the book’s internal elements exactly where they have been since their original conception,” he says.

The Book Surgeon (My Modern Met)

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Brothers Simon (right) and Christian Stokes, whose Bang Cafe restaurant in Dublin has been wound up with debts of €2.4 million, spent almost €146,000 of the company’s money over an 18 month period on personal expenses, including hotels and restaurants in Ireland, London, Denmark and Barbados. The company owes more than €470,000 to the Revenue.

Expenses included:

The Coral Reef Club, Barbados: €2,421

Blakes Hotel, London: €1,891

The Gucci Store, New York: €4,425

The Professional Golfers Association, Blackrock: €2,000

Skovshoved Hotel, Denmark: €4,288

Brown Thomas, Dublin: €2,621

Pia Bang Interiors, Dublin: €6,494

Ashford Castle: €3,835

Maroma Resort & Spa: €2,091

Items not included:

Subscription to Socialist Worker newspaper: €18

Christy Moore CD: €10

Dubarry shoes: €40

Underwear (Penneys): €5

Pack of 20 ‘Woodbines’: €8

Brothers Spent €146,000 on ‘Expenses’ (Irish Times)

(Photocall Ireland)

64-year-old Patrick Loughran of Swords in Co Dublin claimed he was walking in the Smithfield Market area on 3 February 2008 when he was hit by a horse and a type of small carriage called a sulky, being driven at speed by an unknown person.

He said he was struck by the horse, and thrown over a bollard causing severe personal injuries to his left shoulder, neck and back.

He says the horse also stood on his foot.

Court Dismisses 2008 Smithfield Injuries case (RTE)

The Taoiseach was in his hometown Clara, Co Offaly. this afternoon for the opening of an interpretive centre for the World Heritage peatlands site. He spoke to RTE’s Drivetime:

Ciaran Mullooly: “What are your plans for the future?”

Brian Cowen: “I don’t have any plans for the future. At the moment we’ve just finished an election campaign. I leave office on the 9th of March, next Wednesday, so I do my job until then and then hand over. I’m thankful to see that the transition to the new administration has been well organised and well done… I wish the incoming government well, the incoming taoiseach well.”

Mullooly: “You’ve had a hectic time over the last two to three years. Would a holiday be in order for the Cowen family after wednesday?”

Cowen: “Ah sure, if you’re going to have all the press coming after you there’s no point in going on holiday is there?”

Will you tell him or shall we?