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This afternoon.
Kildare Street, Dublin 2
Liam O’Brien writes:
The lads at Dublin City Council have really upped their signage game…
In fairness
Phil Mitchell anyone?
Australian video artist Nick ‘Pogo’ Bertke’s personal tribute (yes, that’s him throughout) to the musical ouevre of Star Trek TNG’s science officer and captain. To wit:
Data & Picard is my tribute to one of the greatest TV series of all time. It is an original track featuring the voices of Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Commander Data (Brent Spiner), accompanied by a music video I shot entirely in my living room with a green screen and lights. The track opens with the Klingon Victory Song, followed by a remix of Data singing Che Gelida Manina in the episode ‘In Theory’. This episode was the first ever to be directed by Patrick Stewart and I didn’t realize this until after the track was finished.
LA based photographer Mike Kelley’s composites of air traffic taken at various airports around the world.
More here.
Related: Landing Rush
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Last Friday, with a TWENTY FIVE EURO voucher for Golden Discs on offer, we asked you to complete this sentence:
“To my mind, the finest Bob Dylan lyric can only be…”
You responded in your dozens.
But there can only be one winner.
ItWasChaosBilly clinched it.
To my mind the finest Bob Dylan lyric can only be from To Ramona, a song to console even the heaviest of hearts:
“The flowers of the city
Though breathlike, get deathlike at times
And there’s no use in tryin’
To deal with the dyin’
Though I cannot explain that in lines.”
Runners up.
Penfold: “To my mind the finest Bob Dylan lyric can only be (and maybe Trump can break it out!): “Someone’s got it in for me, they’re planting stories in the press/Whoever it is I wish they’d cut it out quick but when they will I can only guess”. From Idiot Wind.”
Mr. P: “One that always stuck with me is the brilliantly simple, yet deeply cutting message to someone who turned on him when he left the trad folk music scene. Positively 4th Street, 1965. “I wish that for just one time, you could stand inside my shoes, you’d know then what a drag it is to see you.”
DSpot: ‘To my mind the finest Bob Dylan lyric can only be: ‘Well, the sword swallower, he comes up to you and then he kneels/He crosses himself and then he clicks his high heels/And without further notice, he asks you how it feels/And he says, “Here is your throat back, thanks for the loan’ (Ballad Of A Thin Man) Some boy altogether.”
realPolithicks: To my mind the finest Bob Dylan lyric can only be: “Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now” (My Back Pages)
Cheech: “To my mind the finest Bob Dylan lyric can only be *inaudible mumbling*”.
Thanks all
Last week: Johnny’s In The Basement
Kathy Ryan speaking at the Sugar Club in Dublin on Monday night during Alz Talks
Readers may recall a video of Kathy Ryan, who has Early Onset Alzheimer’s, with her two sons, Andrew and Matt, in which they appealed for more Government support for dementia care at home.
On Monday night, at a music and spoken word event in the Sugar Club called Alz Talks – organised by The Alzheimer Society of Ireland – people living with dementia and carers spoke of their experiences of living with the condition.
Kathy said the following:
Picture this: You’re standing in your own bathroom, holding one of three toothbrushes in front of you and you have absolutely no idea what to do with it, or what it’s used for, and worse, you don’t even know what it’s called.
Time stands very still and there is just this huge, empty, gaping hole of nothingness and you’re not sure what’s happening, you’re not sure what’s missing or if things will ever be normal again.
This is Alzheimer’s.Continue reading →
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Last night.
RTÉ One’s Prime Time.
Eileen White asks:
Is it just me or does anyone else think the desk looks like a toilet pot top with black lid?
Galway DJ Jimmy Penguin (right) took on the world’s best gamers at Milan Games Week last week, finishing ItabashiZangief (left) – the tournament’s top seeded Street Fighter player – with a barrage of special moves.
Full on Penguin action from 5.30 to 13.30.
Oh.
From the results of the ‘second wave’ of the Healthy Ireland Survey.
Being launched in Iveagh House, Dublin now.
*lights cigarette*
Meanwhile…
Big dirty plate of biscuits at the Healthy Ireland survey launch pic.twitter.com/PYcUgICUOn
— Sean Defoe (@SeanDefoe) October 19, 2016
Survey: Unemployed more likely to eat ready meals than employed (Irish Times)
Pics via Healthy Ireland
Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan
The Green Party have called for the decriminalisation of drug use and the legalisation of cannabis for medical use among their recommendations to the Government’s new National Drugs Strategy. The public consultation closed on the new strategy closed yesterday.
Speaking in support of the submission, Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan TD said:
“Opportunities for open consultation on government policy are very welcome, particularly when it comes to matters as important as our National Drugs Strategy, and we’re glad that the Government sought submissions on this issue. There has to be an acceptance that the current situation in Ireland is not working for anyone, and that a new National Drugs Strategy presents an opportunity to change this…
Green Party call for decriminalising drug use and legalising medical use of cannabis (Green Party)
Thanks Jonathan Victory
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