Category Archives: Misc

 

Mmm. Urban

Yesterday.

Just off Francis Street, Dublin 8.

Carlosfandango writes:

Love this part of town, worked and lived here for a years in a previous life.
It’s changing so much, hopefully for the better – but some that might disagree.

Meanwhile…

Carlosfandango adds:

Stopped on Francis Street for a mega saussie roll and a cup of coffee when I was passing through this morning. Would recommend. (Lovin’ Catering)…

Hang on.

If you’re going to pluNOMNOMNOMNOM

Tara Nome Doyle – Caterpillar

Got the metamorphosis blues.

Berlin-based Irish-Norwegian singer/songwriter Tara Nome Doyle (top) channels her inner butterfly on the atmospheric new single from her forthcoming second album Værmin.

It comes with a cinematic video directed by Oliver Mohr and starring Helena Frost, Luna Schaller and Ilona Schulz.

Director Mohr writes:

“It is the warm voice of seduction that tries to gently pull us into the abyss in Tara’s ‘Caterpillar’. All songs on the album are named after insects and deal with topics that are often neglected in society. In public as well as in private. The Caterpillar video tells of three characters in dangerous social addictions.

“Off-screen hands give things to the characters. Presumed gifts, which only reinforce the characters in their dependency. While we observe them in their situations, the space around the characters narrows in the course of the story to a gentle cocoon of loneliness. Together they dream of breaking free from their fate and flying away.”

Nick says: On the wings of love.

Tara Nome Doyle

What you may need to know

1. The first trailer (short as it might be) for the upcoming Baz Lurhmann-helmed biopic starring Austin Butler as the King and Tom Hanks as his manager Colonel Tom Parker.

2. It opens with an echoing line from Suspicious Minds…don’t let a good thing die.

3. We get a trip through the three decades of the star’s career, which lasted from his breakthrough in 1956 to his death at 42 in 1977.

4. It focuses on the 1950s as Colonel Parker meets Elvis at a fairground and signs him and closes with Elvis, in one of his white jumpsuits, backstage with the Memphis Mafia and his  backing singers, ready to perform at one of his 1970s Las Vegas residencies.

5. The trailer concludes with the singer’s trademark symbol lightning bolt with the letters TCB, standing for “Takin’ Care of Business”.

6. Trailer is so good (and short) they show it twice.

Release date: June.

This morning.

Anyone?

Update:

Don’t pick up!

Astrophysicist Natasha Hurley-Walker marked the position of the mysterious object in the Milky Way with a little sun symbol

This morning.

Via BBC:

The object, first spotted by a university student working on his undergraduate thesis, releases a huge burst of radio energy three times every hour.

The pulse comes “every 18.18 minutes, like clockwork,” said astrophysicist Natasha Hurley-Walker, who led the investigation after the student’s discovery, using a telescope in the Western Australian outback known as the Murchison Widefield Array.

While there are other objects in the universe that switch on and off – such as pulsars – Ms Hurley-Walker said 18.18 minutes is a frequency that has never been observed before.

Finding this object was “kind of spooky for an astronomer,” she said, “because there’s nothing known in the sky that does that.”

Meh.

Australia scientists find ‘spooky’ spinning object in Milky Way (BBC)

AFP

This morning.

The Russian Embassy, Orwell (!) Road, Rathgar, Dublin 6.

Two of our best.

Earlier…

This morning.

O’Connell Street, Dublin 1.

They’re going in!

Patrick Murphy (left), CEO Irish South and West Fish Producers Organisation (ISWFPO), and Brendan Byrne, CEO of the Irish Fish Processors and Exporters Association (IFPEA), in the lobby of the Gresham Hotel before leaving for their meeting with Russian Ambassador to Ireland, Yuriy Fillet-ov Filatov in the Russian Embassy to discuss the welfare of marine life during a proposed military drill off our south coast.

Godspeed, gentlemen, and, when offered, refuse both the vodka and the ‘fish egg’ delicacy. You’ll thank me later.

Sam Boal/RollingNews

Anti-vaccine passport protest in Barcelona, Spain earlier this month

This morning.

Via Catalan News:

The Catalan government will scrap the obligatory use of Covid passports to enter bars, restaurants, cultural events, and all other establishments, from Thursday at midnight into Friday.

The executive had initially planned on extending their use, but on Wednesday evening, it was confirmed that they will no longer be required.

After a late meeting of the government officials in charge of Covid, authorities came to this decision on the basis that the measure worked when the Delta variant was prevalent, but now that the much more transmissible Omicron strain of the coronavirus is dominant in Catalonia, and because the vaccine seems to prevent severe illness but not prevent transmission, then the use of the Covid passport to enter establishments is rendered somewhat redundant.

Olé.

Any excuse.

Any excuse 2

Use of Covid passports in bars to be scrapped from Thursday (CatalanNews)

Meanwhile….

Gulp.

No need for the language.

From top: Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces, Lieutenant General Seán Clancy (left) and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney; Russian Ambassador to Ireland Yury Anatoliyevich Filatov

This morning.

Via RTÉ News:

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has spoken of his surprise that the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces, Lieutenant General Seán Clancy, met the Russian ambassador to Ireland last Friday.

Mr Coveney made the comments at last night’s meeting of the Fine Gael parliamentary party.

In late November 2021, Mr Filatov requested a courtesy call with Lieutenant General Clancy and the meeting was arranged for late January 2022.

The meeting was held on 21 January in the Chief of Staff’s Office, McKee Barracks, Dublin.

Meanwhile…

John Brady, Sinn Fein’s Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Defence, has accused Mr Coveney of “undermining” the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces, Lieutenant General Seán Clancy with his comments about meeting with the Russian Ambassador to Ireland.

Mr Coveney “took it upon himself in a public way” to make these comments and that it was “poor judgement” to do this, Mr Brady said.

Last night: Détente

Warning issued over Russian Navy exercises in February (RTE)

RollingNews

Splutter!

1984.

Astor Cinema, Eden Quay, Dublin 1.

Soft-core porn, voice-dubbing issues and glue-like suction from the sticky floors.

Good times.

Name that jammer, anyone?

By David Jazay

Meanwhile…

Jaws 3D.

Muck.