The preternaturally cute Siberian Flying Squirrel, photographed on Hokkaido island in Japan by Masatsugu Ohashi.
Yearly Archives: 2013
Result!
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The Magdalene Report.
A clean sheet for Catholics everywhere.
I expect I’ll get it in the neck for this one. I’m not saying that the use by the Irish state of the Magdalene laundries as reformatories to which people could be sent without explanation or due process was in any way defensible. And Irish nuns could undoubtedly be tough in those days (my wife has fond memories from her convent school in Swanage, now a holiday hotel, of being called “a bold girl” and having her hand thwacked with a 12-inch ruler). But, says one woman quoted [in the report], there was in the Magdalene laundries no physical punishment that she saw, and though things were “not rosy”, “we were treated good and well looked after”
William Oddie.
Not the Goodie.
We don’t know much about podiatry.
But those feet suck.
Michael Flatley. Lord Of the Toe Paintings, in Saturday’s Irish Times magazine.
Thanks Ciaran Le Cool
Interesting, and sad, item on #liveline on the Irish Times policy of not referring to suicide in a death notice, despite family request.
— Fiona McGarry (@absolutebog) February 25, 2013
Hearty Bucks
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The highest grossing movies in ireland at the weekend?
Making Hardy Bucks the seventh EIGHT highest grossing opening weekend for an Irish comedy EVER:
Fair play though, in fairness.
Thanks Miguel
Apologies
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For missed postage the last hour. Normal service will resume very shortly.
JG-LBombing
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt was at the Oscars. So he was.
Earlier: Fair Day Though, In Fairness
(Hat tip: John Gallen)
The ‘collaborative animation’ of a powerful spoken-word poem by Shane Koyczan about bullying.
Part of an ongoing project you can read more about here.
The Lowry tapes.
They’re very sweary
Michael Lowry: “Anybody who was legally acting for [Denis] O’Brien or me or what have you, were forced to deliver whatever they have, right. Now, that meant that [Christopher] Vaughan’s files had to be sent over. And Vaughan had fucking comments on the files. That means that [Carter Ruck solicitor] Ruth Collard’s comments came over and they were on the files.
Now, some of the comments that are on the file are attributed to you. In other words, it’s Vaughan saying that you said this or you said that. Correct. Now what the High Court case is about at the moment is that O’Brien is trying to stop them, eh, files — or any references to them — being put into the tribunal, because they are not coming over as witnesses. That’s what the High Court case is about.
So — either O’Brien’s side or us — there’s nobody trying to fucking piss on you. In fact, Denis, myself, Baldy — anybody will be going in — will be saying that you were paid 150, that you were fucking entitled to it, and that you got it, end of story.”
Michael Lowry taped in September 2004 speaking to Denis O’Brien’s land agent Kevin Phelan.
Baldy, anyone?
Earlier: Michael Lowry Writes