Doubling as a promo for Google Maps, Saroo Brierley relates a synopsised version of his incredible story – the tale of a four year-old boy who fell asleep on a runaway train and spent the next 26 years trying to find his way home.
Brierley’s book A Long Way Home is set to be made into a feature film.
Coogan. BOD. Farrell.
Plus a heart-rending story of a person overcoming illness against the odds bravely and is now happier than ever thanks mainly to prayer and the wonderful staff at [names private hospital].
Probably.
Pic: AFP
When do we want it?
Anois!
Andy Taylor writes:
One of several admonitions As Gaeilge that popped up around The Docks in Galway overnight. Misteach?
First there was ‘The End’.
Then ‘The Staff’.
This is ‘Portrait’ the last in a trilogy of rueful meditations by
Featuring his da.
Directed by Mick Quinn
Surreal photo manipulations by 14-year-old Zev, known as ‘Fiddle Oak’, from Natick Massachusetts.
He created them with his sister Nellie, aged 17.
Brats.
See how they make them here
Thanks Annie West via Tara McGowan
Tish,
Murtles wins the Bulmers Galway Comedy Festival competition tickets with this numeral based chortler.
Thanks all.
Earlier: A Quick Laff
Not even old enough for a quiff.
Morrissey’s autobiography ‘Autobiography’, published today.
Previously: Irish Blood, English Hardback
Thanks Bewildered Student
What you may need to know
1. The country might be on its knees, but one Big Mon From Ballymena is still KICKING ASS FOR IRELAND.
2. Suggested Alternate Title: Taken 3: Plane Talkin’. Feel free to add your own…
3. What’s Julianne Moore doing in this movie? Trailer Park Theory Of Blockbuster Moviemaking, Part 147: If a big name actor turns up in a seemingly nothing role, they DEFINITELY did it.
4. Downton alert!
5. Best YouTube comment: ‘Neeson is a good actor but I dont get how a movie can take place the whole time on plane. Whats the enjoyment in that.’
6. Broadsheet Prognosis: Schindler’s pissed! AGAIN!
Release date: 2014
A new, trippy animation by Jake Fried, who uses layers of ink, gouache, white-out fluid and coffee to build up subsequent scenes one on top of the last.
By the end, his canvasses often end up an inch thick with layered material.
Previously: Raw Data/The Deep End
