Author Archives: Niall Murphy

Los Angeles art gallery R&R celebrates actor Bill Murray with an exhibition of portraits featuring many of the characters he’s portrayed in film over the years.

Quality. Slightly unhinged. A bit like the man himself

See the full collection here.

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Shot in one take, this music video combines the Mad Men theme song ‘A Beautiful Mine’ by RJD2 and adds the lyrics from Nat King Cole’s ‘Nature Boy’. Singer: Allison Williams.

Seamless.

Laughing Squid

[Delhi Chief Minister Sheila DIKSHIT]

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Laughing-boy presenter Paul Henry unwittingly causes an international incident and kisses his career goodbye on New Zealand breakfast show TVNZ last week.

Initially suspended, Henry resigned on Sunday. PC gone mad? Racist gobshite gets his comeuppance? The jury is out.

UPDATE: Following a request from the Irish Times, we have removed the photograph originally used in this post and replaced it with a specially commissioned artist’s rendering of the same image.

Thomas O’Kelly tears the Down At Heart Docklands Girl, etc, etc.

[Top to Bottom: The ‘boot’ of Italy, the Space Station and the Greek islands.]

Douglas H. Wheelock, aka AstroWheels on Twitter, is a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station.

Check out his monster archive of Twitpics from space here.

Bea and Wilma at Busch Gardens, Florida.

BFF.

Says assistant curator Jason Green: “Bea likes to use her tongue to explore her surroundings, and Wilma isn’t fazed by those very close encounters.”

All righty then.

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In the face of brutal budget cuts and staff layoffs, Chief Constable Peter Fahy (above, cuffed) of the Greater Manchester Police has come up with a rather brilliant PR stunt: posting details of every 999 call the GMP (already stretched to its limit) receives inside a 24 hour period.

Three dedicated twitter feeds are being used to log the calls in real-time: a gob-smacking, sometimes depressing, frequently hilarious mixture of batshit craziness and mundanity.

The deluge started at 5am this morning and continues until 5am Friday.

GMP Tweets (the Guardian)