Seriously, like.
Mark Bennett tweetz:
The sun won’t stop shining! Sunset at
AmityLough Owel, Mullingar [yesterday]
Sir, – I fully agree with Alan Fairbrother (September 6th) on the question of our dropping the Irish “mam” or “ma” in favour of first the Anglo “mum” and now the American “mom”.
I suppose it has to do with our obsession with sounding posh, and fear of, God forbid, sounding Irish ! – Yours, etc,Raymond Kennedy
Raheny,
Dublin 5.
Your ma.
Mammy vs mummy (Irish Times letters page)
Card by Grand Grand
Doc Gone
at
No!
etc.
(Photocall Ireland)
Meanwhile…
Claire O’Brien writes:
“Found this in my inbox this morning… suspicious.”
Fox Jaw – Falling Debris
Topical music for the re-possessed.
Shane Serrano writes:
“A video for Irish band Fox Jaw…It’s a political satire music video… critiquing The Economy, The Church, The Banks… and even Garth Brooks! It’s been getting retweets from the likes of Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan and even Ash’s Tim Wheeler….”
Hits in diagram form by Flowing Data (full sized version).
Hocus Focus
at
In this commercial for Japanese optical high-speed internet service provider au Hikari, a Rube Goldberg machine (or Heath Robinson contraption, if you like) is “powered” by a single beam of light reflecting off mirrors and passing through lenses to burn through strings, melt ice, pop balloons and generally put the fizz into physics.
Here’s how they did it.
This afternoon.
Cathal MacCoille tweetz:
Not a soul in sight. Two miles into the Phoenix Park…
Name that tree anyone?
What you may need to know
1. Home invasion thriller in which Terri (Taraji P. Henson), is threatened by Colin (Idris Elba), a charming stranger who smooth-talks his way into her house. The unexpected invitation leaves her and her family terrorised and fighting for survival.
2. Screen Gems caused a stink this week by cancelling all scheduled press screenings for No Good Deed with the excuse of not wanting to spoil a plot twist for the audience.
3. First of all, no critic in their right mind would ever intentionally spoil a plot twist.
4. Second, the audience wouldn’t have known that there was a plot twist if Screen Gems hadn’t announced it in a press release.
5. Other movies not screened in advance include Movie 43 (2013), Meet the Spartans (2008) and anything by Uwe Boll. You can draw your own conclusions.
6. If that doesn’t tell you enough, then consider that the release of No Good Deed has already been postponed four times. Originally slated for release in October 2013, it was moved to January, then April 2014 before finally limping into US theatres today. Sometimes there’s a good reason for pushing a release back, but four times?
7. Elba seems to be struggling to translate an impeccable TV résumé into a movie career.
8. Broadsheet Prognosis: The signs are not good.
Release Date: November 21
(DelBoy is away. Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)
Two gardaí stand outside the home of evicted Martin and Violet Coyne, in Carpenterstown, Castleknock, Dublin, after members of the Land League entered the couple’s home this afternoon. The Land League members say they will not leave until Martin and Violet, pictured above left, are allowed back into the house.
Previously: Meanwhile, At The Four Courts
Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland