[A press release from Drinkaware.ieMEAS (Mature Enjoyment of Alcohol in Society) today]
Splutter!
John writes:
“Ms. Fionnuala Sheehan, the head of drinkaware.ie/MEAS, compares the exclusion of the drinks industry from Alcohol Awareness Week to the past persecution of black people and Irish people. Might be a bit of a stretch.”
It tracks your blummin’ BEHAVIOUR.
Laura Gaynor writes:
“A video I did about the making of the [youth health group] SpunOut.ie MiYo (Mind Yourself) app that we launched this morning. It tracks your behaviour and helps maintain positive mental health. You can preorder it now and it’s going to be properly out on May 1 :)”
Edward Hopper, Michelangelo, Jan Provoost and others, appropriately augmented in an ongoing series by Ukrainian illustrator Nastya Nudnik.
Canadian interviewer John ‘Nardwuar The Human Serviette’ Ruskin interviews 2014 Grulke prize-winners and all-round fine young world-conquering Cavan lads The Strypes at SXSW in Austin, Texas.
Previously: Meanwhile, On Letterman
(H/T: Eoin Murtagh)
From 1997, an ad for Caffrey’s Ale.
Yeasty, creamy and pale.
Like a dose of thrush.
He’s no Fassbender, in fairness.
Trinity College Dublin this lunchtime following the splintering clash between a car and the College’s fabled front door.
Earlier: Meanwhile, At Trinity
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
The Merrion Centre, Nutley Lane, Dublin this lunchtime.
Thanks Aoife
Using information drawn from Mason Currey’s book Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, designer RJ Andrews isolates the productivity schedules of some of history’s noted thinkers (focusing, with the exception of Maya Angelou, almost entirely on male figures, which rather skews things).
More here.
Scenes from Gay Byrne’s final show (of the current season) of his Sunday afternoon show on Lyric Fm in the Radio Centre, Montrose, Donnybrook, Dublin last Sunday..
The Randomer writes:
“He has said he’s just going on a break and that reports of his final departure from the airwaves are greatly exaggerated. So,until he teams up again with his award-winning producer Eithne Hand, here are some shots of Gay Byrne on air last Sunday afternoon as he presented his last show before he headed off for his break which could end some time after the celebration in August of his 80th birthday….”
Eighty.
Previously: Random Friday Pints
