Yearly Archives: 2016
Being Hated
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A short for The School Of Life directed, animated and designed by Luiz Stockler. To wit:
‘H8rs gonna h8.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gja9xgbNMlA&feature=youtu.be
Dublin photograpaher Keneth O’Halloran records reactions to the Donald Trump star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, California.
Part of a book project entitled Bing Bing Bong Bong Bing Bing Bing about The Donald’s Hollywood star.
Buy book here
Tonight.
Making it Down Under.
On RTE One at 8.30pm.
Gareth Naughton writes:
On tonight’s episode viewers meet Rosie Nolan, a Waterford woman working in the Australian police force who is also a mum of seven.
Rosie (27) travelled to Australia at the age of 18, having had her application to join the Gardaí turned down with the advice to go and get some life experience before trying again later.
She arrived in Australia as a backpacker, eventually joined the Brisbane Police and never looked back. Nine years later, she has seven children and lives happily in the suburbs with her wife Natasha.
A corrupt cop attempts to make it up to his victim.
Which raises the question: can all wrongs be righted?
60 Second Docs (new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays)
John McGahon tweetz:
Bus load of Dundalk FC fans broke down on the motorway. Stephen Kenny & team bus pull over. “Hop on lads”.
Fair play, no need for the language, etc.
Previously: D-Day
The Redneck Manifesto – playing new songs at Clonakilty Guitar Fest this weekend
What you may need to know…
01. At last, an excuse to talk about veteran Dubland instrumentalists The Redneck Manifesto.
02. Coming together in 1998 from other bands on the Dublin scene at the time, they self-released numerous singles before dropping their debut full-length, Thirtysixstrings to massive acclaim. Companion piece Cut Your Heart Off From Your Head surfaced the following year. Third full-length I Am Brazil released in 2004, recorded in France’s Black Box Studios.
03. Streaming above in its entirety is the band’s most recent full-length, Friendship, released in March of 2010 via the sadly-missed Richter Collective.
04. Appearing live this Sunday in their only date this year at DeBarra’s in Clonakilty, as part of the Clonakilty International Guitar Festival. New material has been promised. Tickets available NOW.
VERDICT: One of the finest bands in the land, and one that’s stayed DIY all this time, to boot. Word of new stuff is most encouraging also.
Hopeless Surfer tweetz:
Just got my car insurance renewal quote – not too bad…
Car insurers face cartel probe over price hikes (Irish Examiner)
Previously: ‘There Is A Cartel Of Insurance Writers’
Hailo Slips
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Cara writes:
Very strange. Booked a Hailo this morning just before 9am. The taxi that responded was on the North Circular Road yet Hailo told me he would arrive in Sandymount [Dublin 4] in five minutes. Maybe I got an upgrade to a helicopter? I actually didn’t notice until the very nice taxi driver rang and said he would be 30-40 minutes. I cancelled.
No Dopes
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This morning.
Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin
Dr Catherine Jacobson (top), director of clinical research at Tilray, and Dr Arno Hazekamp, Chief Scientist at Bedrocan (second pic) address the Global Medical Cannabis Summit about the innovations and developments that are “changing the trajectory of this global debate” on the legalisation of the ‘erb.
Fight!
Last night: Give Weed A Chance
Thanks Nial N