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Yearly Archives: 2013
Johnny Ferguson, advertising copywriter/screenwriter and a creative, considerate and often pugnacious Dublin/Co Sligo character, known and loved by many, has died.
Johnny was working on several film projects before becoming ill and adapted the screenplay for the extraordinary Gangster No 1 (2000), featuring Malcolm McDowell and Paul Bettany (above).
Contributing to Poetry Ireland.ie in 2009, this is how Johnny described himself:
“Johnny Ferguson is a full-time screenwriter whose only fear – like the tribal chief in the Asterix books – is that the sky might fall on his/our head. (He has stopped listening to the Joe Duffy Show). You may know Johnny from such films as Gangster No. 1 and…er…that’s it. He is currently working on 3 novel adaptations, one short story adaptation, 3 original screenplays and his abs (kidding). He hopes to, one day, have the money to re-sole his left shoe.”
Watch Gangster No 1 here
Zoe Bradley writes:
My two brothers and I were very taken by the Hadouken craze (actually just me, but I was very persuasive) and took this picture on Rossbeigh beach in Co. Kerry. Thought you might like the look of it…
Previously: Exchequer Street Drama
Big Wednesday, bro.
Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, minutes ago.
By Paul-Kenji Cahier Furuya. Thanks John Gallagher
Double European Cross Country champion Fionnuala Britton, from Wicklow, above, has been named European Athlete of The Month for March, along with world javelin champion Tero Pitkämäki of Finland.
Yay.
Pitkämäki and Britton voted European Athletes of the Month for March (European Athletics)
Previously: Fair Play Though, In Fairness
Pic: Athletics Ireland
The Poor Law
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A bevy of starving barristers bewail their lack of work
They’ll always be with us.
A cartoon from the 1884 Weekly Freeman.
On sale at Adams with a guide price of around 70 guineas.
*raises unkempt eyebrows quizzically*
Thanks Sibling of Daedalus
Ukrainian musician Oleg Berg digitally re-edits famous songs and alters their harmonic scale.
This is his favourite so far – Hey Jude by The Beatles in minor key.
A Thatcher death party in Goldthorpe, a former mining village in South Yorkshire, within the last hour.
Earlier: She Loved Us
Meanwhile…
Why Does Everyone Hate Margaret Thatcher So Much (YahooAnswers)
Thanks Paul Costello
Jaykers.
Queue for Dicey Reilly’s at 6.45pm yesterday evening.
Thanks Jeffrey Cronin
26 all-too-brief seconds of feel-good vampiro-numeric brilliance by Irish animator Chris O’Hara, set to the tune of “Sesame’s Treet’ by 90s ravers, the Smart Es.