More to follow.
The fragile celestial love triangle of the Earth, Moon and Sun depicted in a rather gorgeous short by Eusong Lee.
Full screen recommended for maximum cosmic feels.
The votes are in.
Last week, with a voucher worth a princely €25 to spend at Golden Discs on offer, I asked YOU to name your favourite song that mentions another song or artist?
You answered in your dozens.
But there could be only one winner.
Third Place:
Bagatelle – Summer In Dublin
Slightly Bemused writes:
“I was singing a song I heard somewhere, called “Rock ‘n’ roll never forgets.
When my hummin’ was smothered by a 46a and the scream of a low flying jet.” For those interested, Rock ‘n’ Roll Never Forgets, by Bob Seger:
Runner up:
Ian Dury & The Blockheads – Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3
Danny writes:
Some of the singers and performers mentioned:
Buddy Holly
Good golly, Miss Molly
The Bolshoi Ballet
Levi’s and Scotty (Moore)
We’re Willy Harris (skiffle star)
Listening to Rico (Rodriguez) went on to play with the Specials
Shostakovich
Smokey Robertson
John Coltrane
Adriano Celentano (Italian singer)Lots more famous people, but all the above involved in music. Actually I saw him [Dury} perform in the ill-fated Stardust a few weeks before the tragic fire and when I was there the escape door were chained and locked.
Winner:
The Replacements – Alex Chilton
Brian Ahern writes:
“Children by the million sing for Alex Chilton when he comes ’round
They sing “I’m in love. What’s that song? I’m in love with that song.”
Alex Chilton of Big Star fame or course!
Last week: Win Nick’s Voucher
Thanks Bertie Blenkinsop
From top: Laura Nolan, Steven Vincent, Kylee Vincent and Pasquale La Rocca
Swoon!
Splutter!
The new ‘pros’ on Adultery Dancing With The Stars.
This afternoon.
Via RTÉ:
It’s that time of the year again when the professional dancers will don their sequins and reunite to begin rehearsals for the brand new series of Dancing with the Stars.
The new dancers will be in good hands when they join returning seasoned DWTS pros; John Nolan, Karen Byrne, Robert Rowiński, Giulia Dotta, Kai Widdrington, Emily Barker and Ryan McShane as they prepare for another season of show stopping routines as only they know how.
New to the professional dancer line-up this year are Laura Nolan, Pasquale La Rocca, Kylee Vincent and Steven Vincent.
Over the coming weeks the pro team will sweat it out and pull out all the stops to go bigger and better as they gear up for another spectacular series of Dancing with the Stars.
NO affairs!
Fight!
Pic: RTÉ
Too Soon?
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Xmas gift ideas.
All Irish and hand-made.
Brendan writes:
These 10 Christmas gift ideas are guaranteed to make anyone’s holiday special. From hand-made Irish gifts to the latest trends you won’t need to look anywhere else for the perfect present…
Holiday Gift Guide 2019 (Painted Clans)
Irish-made stuff to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘irish-Made Stuff
Earlier: The New Black
This morning.
The Bernard Shaw, Richmond Street South, Dublin 2
‘Sauvignon Blanc’ writes:
End of an era…
Previously: The Shaw Shack Redemption
Meanwhile…
I designed a new modern crest for #Dublin – You're welcome #NoMoreHotels pic.twitter.com/krQmaP1g2v
— Will St Leger 🔺 (@WillStLeger) November 13, 2019
Winged blur, more like.
Behold: the tiny silhouette of the planet Mercury against the vast backdrop of Sol during this week’s transit. To wit:
In the high resolution telescopic image, a colorized stack of 61 sharp video frames, a turbulent array of photospheric convection cells tile the bright solar surface. Mercury’s more regular silhouette still stands out though. Of course, only inner planets Mercury and Venus can transit the Sun to appear in silhouette when viewed from planet Earth. For this November 11, 2019 transit of Mercury, the innermost planet’s silhouette was a mere 1/200th the solar diameter. So even under clear daytime skies it was difficult to see without the aid of a safe solar telescope. Following its transit in 2016, this was Mercury’s 4th of 14 transits across the solar disk in the 21st century. The next transit of Mercury will be on November 13, 2032
(Image: Martin Wise)
13/11/2019
This afternoon.
Kilkdare Street, Dublin 2.
Father of the upper house, Senator David Norris at the official launch of the Festival of Politics 2019 joined outside the Dáil by actors dressed as “characters reflecting different aspects of the festival”.
The festival (details at link below), from November 21-24, will explore:
Whether Jesus Christ is really a political Superstar?
If politicians are human?
Is football hijacked by populist political movements across the globe ?
And if are we finally witnessing Dublin’s cultural death rattle?
*cough*
Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland
Save Cuisle
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This afternoon.
Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
Protesters outside Leinster House chant ‘Save Cuisle’.
Roscommon County Councillors have called for the Irish Wheelchair Association (IWA) to postpone the closure of the Cuisle Holiday Centre at Donamon, County Roscommon for 12 months to allow for funding to be secured to save the centre.
At an emergency meeting of Roscommon County Council on Monday, they also warned they were seeking legal advice about possibly obtaining an injuction and accused the IWA of planning to close the fully wheelchair accessible facility for some time.
Housekeeping
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Back before you know it.
Thank you.