uptown downtownHere & There: two prints of Manhattan (‘Uptown’ (top) from 3rd and 7th and ‘Downtown’ from 3rd and 35th) with the horizon ‘removed’ and the topography folded upwards, Inception-style (but pre-dating that movie’s city-bending scene by two years), by London design group BERG.

Part of MOMA‘s permanent collection since last year, they’re also available as limited edition 90 x 120cm prints.

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Bailey Gazette

Further to the Lucan Gazette dirty tricks, Fine Gael politician Cllr John Bailey (top) used a mock-up of the Dun Laoghaire Gazette to promote himself among his constituents, without permission from the newspaper group.

The paper reports

“Cllr Bailey personally delivered a leaflet with a mock-up of the newspaper to the homes of around 300 people.

“The mocked-up version of the paper contained several changes to a story about Amgen and the National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH) in Dun Laoghaire including putting a banner across the story reading Bailey – The Local Man Putting People First.”

“All of the changes put Cllr Bailey in the best possible relief and made it appear that The Gazette brand politically endorsed Cllr Bailey.

 

Councillor apologies for gazette mock up (Dublin Gazette Newspapers)

Earlier: Headline Grabber Update

Previously: Here’s Lucan At You Kid

Boss I Made The Cover

Thanks Election Literature

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAagFuR_XIM

What you may need to know.

1. Director Lee Daniels’ last movie featured Nicole Kidman pissing on Zac Efron. How do you top that?

2. By casting Robin Williams as Dwight Eisenhower, John Cusack as Richard Nixon and Alan Rickman as Ronald Reagan

3. with Jane Fonda as Nancy.

4. And giving Oprah her proper first acting role in fifteen years.

5. Serious Oscar contender and/or future camp classic.

6. Yes, this is a real movie.

Release Date: Winter

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“It is time for some plain speaking. Everybody knows that the Bill is the product of political expediency (and, for the Labour Party, an important and necessary step on a sure road to wide-ranging abortion). Those who are lawyers know that it is not legally required. Those who are doctors know that it is not medically necessary. And those who are psychiatrists know that it is actually damaging to the welfare of some of their patients.”

 

TCD Law Professor William Binchy (above) writing in today’s Irish Times says the proposed abortion legislation is not required.

This, despite Professor Binchy being a campaigner for the 8th Amendment in 1983.

The wording of which was described at the time as “a legal time bomb”.

With then attorney general Patrick Connolly correctly predicting that it “might well have the effect of threatening the right of the mother” to have a life-saving operation“.

Binchy refers to Dr Rhona Mahony as “Dr Rhona O’Mahony”, a minor faux pas but indicative of the importance of fact checking.

It’s time we had some plain speaking on abortion Bill (William Binchy, Irish Times)

Abortion referendum wording was seen as ‘time bomb’ (Joe Humphreys, Irish Times)

Previously: And So It Came To Pass

What Rhona Said

(Wanderley Massafelli /Photocall Ireland, YouTube)

-1‘Complacency Revisited’

A Hillen-esque study of a relationship gone all mechanical.

By Jason Kearney, AKA Cuts

Who sez:

Complacency Revisited to me conjures up the emptiness experienced when a relationship degrades to the point where neither person is living a fulfilling life, instead they both seem content with being passengers along the other’s ‘road’, regardless of this being pointed out to them.

 

But enough about the coalition, etc.

This week’s Le Cool Dublin issue

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