Yearly Archives: 2013

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Two beardly stop-motion animations: Trim, by Peter Simon in which Tom Offer-Westort goes from bald man to mountain man in 38 seconds and the epic shave that is Magic Beard by Ben Garvin (shot on an iPhone and composed with the Stop Motion Studio app), which is even sillier.

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175044515-2231Bradley Manning, above, who faced nearly two dozen charges in connection with what is considered the largest leak of classified information in U.S. history.

Manning is required to serve one-third of the sentence, minus three and half years of time served, before he is eligible for parole. That will be in eight years when he is 33.

Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years (Washington Post)

arrah2ar2Arrah Wanna.

A racially-sensitive, Irish-themed Pocahantas.

Sibling of Daedalus writes:

Interesting popular American comic-hall song from 1906, ‘Arrah Wanna: an Irish-Indian Matrimonial Venture’, about a bagpipe-playing Irishman who wins the hand of a beautiful squaw, Arrah Wanna’ by promising her ‘a wigwam made of shamrocks green‘ cleverly getting round her requirement that ‘some great race must call you Big Chief’ by telling her that he’s the best runner in the district.

The song was enormously popular and spawned a sequel ‘Since Arrah Wanna married Barney Carney’ (above).

The happy couple are shown with the local chief who was subsequently called in to adjudicate on their matrimonial differences…

 

Lyrics here

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Pics via Duke Library and Authentichistory.com

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At the opening of the Lockout 1913 Exhibition at the National Library, Kildare Street, Dublin, today were, top, Jim Larkin’s granddaughter by marriage, Brenda Larkin with her daughter (Jim Larkin’s great granddaughter) Miriam and, above, Jim Larkin’s granddaughter Stella McConnon.

Meanwhile…

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Minister for Public Expenditure Brendan Howlin, and President of SIPTU, Jack O’Connor.

Mmm.

Comradely.

(Laura Hutton/Photocall ireland)

 

 

 

 

Anyone noticed the Garda Traffic tweet machine lately?

Previously: Viking Crash