Knife throwing duo Adam and Dakota ramp up the jeopardy in a practice sessions that begins with mere knives and ends with flaming axes.
Rahu!
“You are my soldiers of the dawn, you’re the ones I get up for every morning, your tweets, your posts, your calls, and as commander of the dawn this morning I say to my soldiers of the dawn ‘good morning’.
“This isn’t a sad morning, plenty of things will happen in 2014.”Hector Ó hEochagáin
Any excuse.
David Clarke writes:
Got this through the letterbox yesterday. Tough crowd here in San Francisco…
Treesplosion
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Pyromanic and munitions-freak Richard Ryan of RatedPR constructs a Christmas tree from detonating cord (which explodes at approximately 6.4km per second), ignites it and films the result in ultra slow Festive Motion™.
When 20th century Fox commissioned videographer Casey Neistat to create a motivational ad campaign promoting The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, he proposed to spend the entire 25,000 budget on the victims of the recent Haiyan typhoon in the Phillipines.
This shameless feelgood viral was the result.
No doubt Fox intend you to skip the movie and instead donate the ticket price to relief efforts.
[University College Dublin pro-life student Samuel O’Connor]
Via The College Tribune:
Law student Samuel O’Connor has become the first UCD student ever to leave UCD Students’ Union. The Union’s Independent Appeals and Disciplinary Board determined that UCDSU “would not be respecting Mr. O’Connor’s legal rights” if it did not allow for his name to be removed from the SU electoral register and any databases used by UCDSU to contact UCD students as Mr. O’Connor requested. Mr. O’Connor will not however receive a monetary refund due to the current SU funding model.
The College Tribune (Facebook)
Previously: Freedom To Disassociate
Sandycove, Co Dublin this evening.
Thanks Stephen Devine
Happy Christmas from all at Pavee Point. :) pic.twitter.com/SkWSW0BoNI
— Pavee Point (@PaveePoint) December 17, 2013
A new poem for a ‘new era’ by Kevin Barrington (above).
The Irish Times
Of Friday November 15th
Just told me
Over Annaghmakerrig tea
We’ll be sovereign again
Sovereign again
So I took to the bike
Without precaution
Or credit
And I took to the hills
Where houses were boarded
Dogs barking
And pubs all closed
Village after village
Pubs were all closed.
And finally in Cootehill
In the county of Cavan
I sat for a pint
Where Charlie the taxi-man
Leaned forward
And said
A fierce amount had taken to the rope
Taken to the rope
Taken to the rope
Dangling from
troika trees
And yet others had gone to the bottom of
Many the lake
Many the lake
Many the lake
So I swallowed my pint
Got back on my bike
Looked up the trees
Stared down the lakes
And cried out
At the top of my voice
Time after time after time again
For God’s sake come back
Please Lord just come back
Do you all not know
We’ll be sovereign again
Sovereign again
Get the fuck up
And out of those graves
We’ll be …
Sovereign Once Again
Kevin Barrington
Previously: `You May Like This
Picture: Conor McCabe via Dalkey Book Festival