Laura Miller writes:
It has been drawn to my attention that the Dalkey Book Festival has changed its status from non-profit making enterprise (which most book festivals are e.g. Hay festival) to a limited company. The festival is heavily sponsored, participants are not paid a penny and all who work
on it are volunteers. Who gets the profits and why hasn’t this been more broadly advertised? Surprised Broadsheet not onto it
Anyone?
But will it make it?
It’s from ’94.
YOU decide.
On a ferry’ (unclear which one) this morning.
Via Warren R
Thomas Street, Dublin, 1968.
Sisters, pals or vintage clothing business partners?
Where are they now?
The National Library would love to hear from you.
UPDATE: The BBC has apparently solved the mystery. “The sister of one of the girls, Margaret Collins, posted a message to say that it was Elizabeth Collins and Angela Arnold,” it reports. More as we get it.
Moran says that human error can be limited but not eliminated altogether and mistakes get worse, not better, when hidden.
— Simon Carswell (@SiCarswell) June 7, 2012
He heard it off one of the Buddhist kids in the juice bar.
John Moran.
Kevin Cardiff’s replacement at the 3.6 billion error report whatsit this morning.
Damn you weirdly hot, Oprah-fied, mid-life crisis financial quasi-hipster.
An extraordinary animation produced by the Fleischer Brother Studios in 1931, showcased in BoingBoing’s current Mindblowing Movies series.
Cartoonist and illustrator Jim Woodring sez of it:
…an ingenious piece of work, made by men who I now realize were well aware of its metaphysical content, as evidenced in part by the use of Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld in the soundtrack. Perhaps its creators were trying to amuse themselves by making a cartoon that combined madcap whimsy with philosophical depth. Or maybe they were just high.
High as monkeys we reckon.
Melted: a sculpture originally unveiled at the 2006 Sculpture By The Sea Exhibition in Sydney, Australia by the Glue Society.
