Dublin this evening.
Anyone?
Thanks Philip Farmer
Berlin-based Irish novelist julian Gough (and daughter) makes a special case why YOU should send a man to Vegas.
It’s for important literary RESEARCH.
Julian writes:
“I’m a writer of peculiar and, I hope, enjoyable fictions. My stories sometimes win awards, sometimes appear as novels, and sometimes turn up in more unusual places. (I wrote the narrative at the end of Markus “Notch” Persson’s wonderful computer game, Minecraft; I wrote the first short story ever printed in the Financial Times; I’ve had a number one Kindle Single in the UK, etc.) In the world of more traditional writing, I’ve also had a couple of radio plays on the BBC, a stageplay performed, a book of poetry published…”
Get you.
“The Las Vegas Postcards is a little art project; a literary experiment. It will let people who enjoy my work help to fund a research & writing trip, from Berlin (where I live) to Las Vegas (where my next novel, Infinite Ammo, is set), for the month of August.
In Las Vegas?
“In return, each funder will, firstly, get a PDF of my favourite, as-yet-unpublished, short story. It’s called “Harvest”, and was shortlisted for the €15,000 Davy Byrnes Award this year. (The judges, Yiyun Li, Jon McGregor, and Booker Prize winner Anne Enright, called it “a superb story””;
Kerching!
“…but I didn’t win. That’s one reason I’m short of cash, and need your help with this.) You will also get to follow my adventures in Las Vegas through my Kickstarter updates; and, most importantly, if you are in for more than ten bucks, I will send you a postcard from Vegas.
It’s certainly a novel idea we’ll give you that.
“Thanks.”
Novel.
“Yes. Got that.”
The flavour-dust gradient of Pringles by Sam Kaplan.
Other processed potato snacks are available.
Thérèse McKenna is a freelance journalist and a MA student in Motion Graphics at Letterkenny Institute of Technology in Donegal.
She writes:
“Children of asylum seekers in direct provision are unseen and unheard – this piece considers how a child might see things, or what life feels like for a little person stuck in that system. I made it as part of my MA in Motion Graphics at Letterkenny Institute of Technology – because I wanted more people to know about this situation and I hoped that telling the story visually might bring it to a wider audience. It’s no way to live.”
In the video, the child’s voice is that of Joanna Siewierska, while the male voiceover is that of Niall Crampton.
Visit irishrefugeecouncil.ie to learn more about direct provision and to find out how you can help.
Jaysus.
The eclectic picnic that was the 1981 Ballisodare [Co Sligo] Festival.
Wini Yandup writes:
“For The Weekend that was In it Chuck Berry? In Sligo? Oh! Yes he was.”
Tesco Finest
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Tesco, Cambridge today.
(Thanks Reppy)
Floor Staff – The Guest
“A couple in a loveless relationship struggle to come to terms with the fact that their unwanted newborn is going to be a musician…”
Genuinely unsettling.
At least it wasn’t a drummer
FIGHT!.
Floor Staff plays the Button Factory, Temple Bar, Dublin tomorrow night.
Directed by Bob Gallagher, Produced by Aoife Kelly
Thanks Nialler9 and Saruul Altantuya
Underdog
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A recent mural by Bart Smeets in Mechelen, Belgium.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYSTqV_T90o
Siobhan Kehoe writes:
I have made a short documentary, called Perceived Perfection, about the pressure that the media puts on girls and woman in terms of appearance and weight, and how it can impact a persons self-image and self-worth. It would be great if Broadsheet.ie would consider sharing it as I would love the message of the documentary to reach a wide audience. It shows how difficult it is for Irish women to say that they’re beautiful.
Thanks Siobhan
Hmmm…
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From Reddit’s Philosoraptor-esque Shower Thoughts subreddit.
It’s thoughts you have. In the shower.