Donie Cassidy.
To think he was once hair apparent.
FF’s Cassidy Loses Seat (Irish Independent)
Monthly Archives: April 2011
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Artist and dancer, Tony Orrico uses his body to create large scale Spirograph-style drawings in live performances that can last for hours.
Whether or not you fancy the prospect of a five hour pencil-based floorshow, the resulting art is pretty impressive.
Huge gallery of his work here.
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This is getting interesting.
Top two pics: clockwise from top right: Brian Lenihan, Noel Dempsey, Dermot Ahern, Brian Cowen, Dick Roche.
Ministers Played Down Bailout Despite Decision To Start Talks (Irish Times)
(All pics: Photocall Ireland)
Mad magazine, still good for teh lols after 59 years.
You’ll encounter them all later in your nightmares. Particularly the Stalacteats.
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Charlie’s TV listings for the Big Day:
8am Extreme Dress Conjecture
Top scientists take turns speculating about Kate Middleton’s dress, bypassing trite discussion of its potential colour and style in favour of determining its approximate atomic weight, by feeding a schoolgirl’s crayon sketch of what it might look like into an onyx supercomputer studded with flashing lights.
9.00 Elephant in the Room Street Party
Live televised royal wedding street party at which, for no particular reason, any discussion of the royal wedding, no matter how tangential, is strictly prohibited, a policy enforced by an emotionless computer-controlled crossbow that automatically executes anyone so much as mentioning it. Survivors win £2,500 for a charity of their choosing.
9.30 The Only Way is Essex Royal Wedding Special
Precisely what you’d expect, but somehow worse.
10.00 Brief Flurry of Excitement as Ben Fogle Arrives at Ceremony
10.15 Fifteen-Minute Pause for Everyone on Twitter to Make Snarky Comment Re Prince William’s Hairloss
10.30 I Couldn’t Care Less About the Royal Wedding and I Don’t Care Who Knows It
Pundits declare their ambivalence toward today’s event while standing on brightly coloured plinths clutching armfuls of live chicks in order to make them look slightly silly for bothering.
11.00 Fifteen-Minute Pause for Everyone on Twitter to Make Joke Re Kate Being Taken Up the Aisle
Read the Rest: Charlie Brooker’s Royal Wedding TV Go Home (Guardian)
Photo: AP
…for the first time it was just so apparent how the coiffure is engineered. It’s a triple combover! Wow, just totally big sheets of babyfine hair from both sides and the back stretched and interwoven into a complex layering on the top. It really is a wonder to behold, and so utterly unconvincing as to boggle the mind.
Princess Sparkle Pony
Impressed? Now behold the überweave in glorious 1800 x 1200 Denial-o-Vision™.
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It’s the beautifully-made Irish lager commercial that involves no Irish people.
Shot on location in Cape Town, South Africa, directed by English ad viral maestro James Rouse and fronted by US bearded hipster ‘weather man’ Scott Campbell, it premiered last night during the Champions League.
But what does it mean?
“It means that the hotter the day, the less you pay for a pint of Budweiser Ice Cold.”
In brief?
…the hotter the day, the less you pay.”
And?
If the temperature goes over 20°C, you get a free pint.
The catch?
Only available to people who download the ‘Budweiser Ice Cold Index’ mobile app. They will receive €2 off at “participating Index bars” when it’s 18°C or 19°C, and a €1 mobile voucher when it’s 16°C or 17°C.”
Ah.
“And the offer is limited to one free or money-off voucher per day, depending on the weather. According to Diageo, which distributes Budweiser in Ireland, there will also be a limit of four vouchers per week.”
Why?
“This is in line with Budweiser’s strict adherence to the promotion of responsible drinking.”
Gotcha.