Today I learned that Dublin’s motto is ‘The obedience of the citizens produces a happy city’. No comment.
— Glen Moran (@MajorThrill) March 5, 2014
‘Miscalculation’ by Paddy Scahill directed by Deirdre Fitzgerald.
Set in Dublin, 1981 and featuring:
Nuala – electronics whizz at Reilly Laboratories and glamorous woman about town.
Donnchadh – her egomaniacal Gaeilgóir poet flatmate.
And Rita – an ex-camogie fiend with a penchant for mixing pop socks and sandals.
The makers say:
We’ve already shot the film on very little budget after developing the script for more than two years. Now, we need to raise the last amount of funding for post-production costs – getting the final edit done and paying for a sound mix and colour grading. There’s also the cost of submitting the film to festivals….
In what could easily (and may yet prove to) be a companion piece to Dov Hikind’s Nazis out of New York campaign, Youtuber Marca Blanca presents the Third Reich Friends.
*German speakers are invited to suggest a less Googlish translation of ‘They’ll be there for you’.
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Behold: the HUVr, crafted from “paramagnetic titanium” and shipping from December 2014.
Based on the hoverboard from Back To The Future and endorsed here by Moby, Tony Hawk and Christopher Lloyd it is, of course, a real thing that is real.
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[An ad on New York City Assembyman Dov Hikind’s website]
Business Insider reports that Democratic New York City Assemblyman Dov Hikind is to start an ad campaign warning New Yorkers that they might be living next to a Nazi.
It reports:
‘According to an announcement posted on his site Tuesday, Hikind’s ads asking, “Would you be a Nazi’s neighbor?” will be appearing in newspapers and bus stops around New York starting Wednesday [today]. The announcement describes the ads as “part of Hikind’s campaign to rid the United States once and for all of illegal Nazi war criminals.” Hikind, who represents a district in Brooklyn with a large Orthodox Jewish population said the campaign was inspired by the case of a former Nazi guard who lives in Queens.
“Jakiw Palij, an ex-Nazi slave-labor camp guard, continues to live comfortably in Jackson Heights, N.Y., because the United States has, thus far, found it difficult to get rid of him,” Hikind said in a statement accompanying the announcement about the ads.’
Blimey.
H/T: Frank Fitzgibbon
Manbear Productions tweetz:
‘Police stopping traffic in Rathmines, Dublin moments ago…To have a chat! Maniacs, learn to park’
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Len writes:
Meanwhile in The Ukraine
What does it want from them?
Via Irish People Living In Australia (Facebook)
Thanks Reppy
Meanwhile, also in Sydney
Via 7jek and Agence France-Presse