From the George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight Best Story Ever series on CBC – Jackie Chan recounts the memorable experience of hamming it up on the set of Enter The Dragon (1973) when the late, great Bruce Lee accidentally belted him across the head with a stick.
“I regularly find Merc W123 series and only some make the cut onto my camera for being extra-interesting. This 280CE tops the list of W123s that I’ve come across, this time on Gardiner Row near Parnell Square. The bodywork is pristine and I love the stance at the front with the lower splitter lip. I certainly wouldn’t fancy parking it around that area for too long though.”
“The Volvo 440 used to be a fairly common sight on Irish roads but they’ve become especially rare, particularly the pre-facelift models like this 1993 example on Clare St {Dublin].”
“Triumph’s infamous Stag was found here on Lombard Street {Dublin}. It boasted the troublesome 3.0V8 engine and had a 4-speed manual transmission with overdrive. I’m not sure of the year but it look like a late model, probably 1976-1978.”
Pics and text by Patrick ‘Carspotter’ Cummins.
Permission granted for reg plates, etc.
Nisan Greenwich writes [via BS app]:
Prepping 70mm print of Big trouble in little China for tomorrow nights screening at the IFI
The only cinema in Ireland equipped to show films in this digital-whupping format.
Were you at the RDS on Saturday night?
How was it for you?
“About a week ago, we were sitting outside a restaurant having an intense debate about the children, and I held Nigella’s neck repeatedly while attempting to emphasise my point…..There was no grip, it was a playful tiff. The pictures are horrific but give a far more drastic and violent impression of what took place. Nigella’s tears were because we both hate arguing, not because she had been hurt.”
If I had the opportunity to squeeze Nigella Lawson, her throat wouldn’t be my first choice.
— Nick Griffin MEP (@nickgriffinmep) June 17, 2013
Everyone stay classy.
Shiela Larkin wirites:
So this is an empty lot on the corner of Harcourt Road and Richmond Street South [Dublin]. Recently the hoarding was taken down and a clean up done.
Passing today I noticed these additions. Anyone?
Drive over all of those suited hippies …. and let the magpies or the road-kill department sort them out
— John Drennan (@DrennanPolitics) June 17, 2013
Magpies.
Magpies.
UPDATE: An apology
Oh.
A minute of concentrated desert-Gonzo from the nice people at 1A4Studio.
Previously: Aliens In 60 seconds
The coalition ‘Enough Food for Everyone IF’ take to the water on Lough Erne in a longboat wearing masks of each of the G8 leaders and displaying a sail with ‘End Tax Dodging’.
Pictured is young ambassador Mwajuma Tulsidas from Tanzania. Irish charities involved with ‘Enough Food for Everyone IF’ are Trocaire, Oxfam Ireland, Save the Children, Concern and Christian Aid.
(Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland)
