Finally.
Lidl, Rathmines, Dublin, this evening.
Thanks Ciaran le Cool
White Strand, Miltown Malbay, Co Clare, this evening.
Thanks Caoimhe O’Donovan
I Love The Internet
By Kevin Barrington
Opium to DeQuincy
Sin to Milton
Congo to Conrad
Aran to Synge
I love the internet
Castles to Shakespeare
Deceit to LeCarre
Dublin to Joyce
Marketplace to Chaucer
Did we say
‘Daffodils to Wordsworth?’
We couldn’t forget that.
Or mounted jihad to Tennyson
Or the weird wild wonder
of the whole god damn show
to Dylan
I love the internet
Wild, lewd, bawdy, bullying, smelling of cats.
Cranks, crank, meth, conspiracy, snipers, knoll.
Fascists made cartoon on ripe digital soil.
Erudite waltzing with trite.
In eternal ballroom
Dedicated skiers on seas of trivial loon.
Self help soma screaming thinnin tv hair repair.
And always the smiles of the filippino brides
And promises of untold nigerian riches.
Flashing wheel spinning ace poker squared
You Have Been Chosen
But
Shhhhhhh
Somewhere down there in the fly fishing section
the first faint whispers
(If ears are right)
of hushed talk
of
bold revolution.
I love the internet
The sheer
dull
scintillating
infantile
anarchy
of
it
all.
Boisterous Brughel medieval market.
Futuristic Middle Ages
Directed
by
Friar Tuck.
And offset, whispers
of
Robin
lurking
in
wood.
I love the internet.
Cos it’s ours.
Online First As Blogger Apologises To Ganley Over Tweets (Gemma O’Doherty, irish Independent)
Wong’s restaurant apparently. Fire and Rescue at the scene.
More as we get it.
(Pics: Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland, Claire Adams, Paul Ryan, Simon Hederman, Niall Harbison and Simon Hederman)
Meanwhile, from afar:
Via Neil Curry
Lenny Abrahamson’s south county Dublin noir (Based on Kevin Power’s 2008 debut novel, “Bad Day in Blackrock”) opens in the UK this week. With a drama-drenched new trailer (above)
We’d see it again.
Previously: Broadsheet Trailer Park: What Richard Did
Poster by Peter Rowen.
Thanks Alan Murphy
Lough Sheelin, Co Cavan, this evening.
Thanks Kevin O Neill
Christoph Niemann’s illustration of a moving 2011 interview with the late Maurice Sendak in which the writer of ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ talks about his perspective on life, the year before his death.
Created for The New York Times magazine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyv4aKJaMwU
What you may need to know.
1. Irreverent pensioners are sooooooo hot right now.
2. Terence Stamp is a geezer. He’s General Zod, for starters, and he
inspired this Kinks song.
3. Is that Chistopher Eccleston? He’s going to be on an actual stamp and play the baddie in Thor 2 (2013).
4. This is directed by Paul Andrew Williams, who did inspired no-budget
Brit thriller London To Brighton (2006).
5. This couple will only love it.
Release Date: February 22
Finally.
Although the turkey may be ready now.
It’s good but it’s no North Circular Road.
St Brigids Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9 (Daft)
In recent years Ireland has changed.
Once a conservative, inward-looking culture, Ireland as a nation has thankfully matured, developed and blossomed.
Great advances have been made in the fields of women’s rights, gay rights, and so on. But we must remember not to throw the baby out with the bath water. Some of our old taboos were mere prejudice, but some were vital for our national health and dignity.
Here at Broadsheet we have always been proud of our long history of confectional independence. We made no comment when Marathon became Snickers. We were right not to. The rebranding of a chocolate bar is a matter for the markets, not for editorial comment.
However, when a bar of chocolate masquerades as a much-loved savoury snack, a line has been crossed. This is not simply a matter of Taytophobia on our part. Lives are at stake.
The Tayto brand is associated with crisps. Crisps, while high in salt, are low in sugar. Using this brand name on a low salt, high sugar snack like chocolate may cause confusion among the Type-2 Diabetic community.
Enough is enough. Time for Mr Tayto to go back where he belongs, on a bag of crisps.