Waddayanuts! writes:
Growing up I always thought Tom & Jerry cartoons had music that was completely bonkers. Here it is performed in all it’s wonderful insane glory.
A medley of composer Scott Bradley’s 1940s and 1950s compositions for Tom and Jerry cartoons, performed live by the John Wilson Orchestra at the 2013 BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.
The mystery buff wetsuit underwater camera guy from yesterday.
Found!
In Germany!!
Wunderwaterbar.
Patrick Seitter writes:
Great job, it’s me on the picture! So cool, I borrowed the cam from my brother and lost it.. :-( on that day I forgot the little leash for the camera at home and accidentally knocked it out of the mount).
Below is a photo of me taken the day after I lost the GoPro.Thank you from Germany..
Damm kareless kraut hipster.
Thanks Noel Ballantyne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j_1bHOpoRY
Gearóid writes:
Although it’s getting the classic false equivalency treatment elsewhere it’s worth pointing this out. The Irish Times reports “Videos taken at the game against Stenhousemuir clearly records Rangers supporters singing songs praising loyalist paramilitaries and uttering chants about IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands. The videos appear to show that some of the 400 soldiers, sailors and Royal Marines, invited to the match by Rangers in a delayed tribute to mark Armed Forces Day, joined in with the singing.”
Gulp.
Last night’s Emily Maitlis-hosted Newsnight on BBC2.
Macho spin merchant Alastair Campbell Vs unapologetic Daily Mail writer Jon Steafel.
Following Steafel’s article on Labour leader Ed Milliband’s father, Ralph and his “evil legacy”.
As opposed to Campbell’s evil legacy (Wake up SHEEPLE, etc.).
Richie McCormack tweetz:
“The worst of British values posing as the best” – Campbell, a bollox for sure, but this was a fine filleting.”
James Joyce’s The Dead – adapted by Charles Richards – played out in the actual rooms where it all ‘took place’ in Usher’s Island [Dublin 8].
A cast of 19, an audience of 20.
No Michael Furey, though. He hasn’t been feeling too well.
New council housing stock and novel town planning from Architectural Survey, 1971 with the brutal(ist) architects named and shamed. St Michael’s estate was eventually razed last February.
Good times.
For the life of me I can’t see why,
The Democrats don’t at least try,
To meet them half way,
Oh why can’t they say,
They’re prepared to let some sick folk die.
John Moynes
(Sky)
Like a pavement-owning boss.
Leinster Road, Rathmines, Dublin this morning.
Thanks Hugh Dempsey
Ah here.
MUTE!
Alana O’Brien writes:
A video I recorded on my way home from work on the 66 bus last night [Dublin city centre to Lucan village]. For 50 mins, this child was SCREAMING. The’mother’ and her friend ignored him and continued to laugh and chat. He was so upset he started getting sick, still the mother wouldn’t pick him up.
The poor bus driver was so distracted and stressed from the screams he was called the gardaí! He did ask her about 10 times, would she pick up and comfort the child…but the response was “DONT TELL ME HOW TO RAISE MY CHILD!” I still have a headache…
Eamon De Valera on Sen and the art of motor maintenance.
“We are apt to think of a Second Chamber and base our conclusions upon it on two very false assumptions. One is that it is a check or a brake which will operate at the time that we think brakes and checks ought to act; and secondly, that we can compose a Seanad of persons who will take a detached view, and will not be affected by political passions at a moment of crisis. Those are two absolutely false assumptions. That they are false appears at once the moment you examine them closely. The very idea of a brake is that there is somebody who will put it into operation just when it is wanted. When the motor is speeding downhill the person at the wheel has got this particular device at his command, by which he is able to check the mad career of the car which may take him over a precipice.
There is there the controlling power, but what is a Second Chamber when we think of it as a brake? Does it act in that way? Will it act just as we want it to act, supposing at a time when democracy is heading for ruin? We cannot provide that it will act. It is much more likely to act like a badly adjusted brake, which will act when it is a cause of friction; when it is preventing the car from getting up the speed which is necessary in order to travel properly. It operates in times of ordinary activity. It operates to prevent the speed which is necessary, and which otherwise could be attained. It is a cause of friction. It operates then because it is easy for it to operate then. It certainly does not operate at the time when we want it most—at the time of crisis—because, as I have said before, in times of revolution it is swept aside.”
Eamon De Valera, 1934.
FIGHT!
Portrait via Oireachtas.ie
Thanks Kieran Binchy
