Reverential and referential art inspired by Judd ‘Superbad, 40 Year Old Virgin, Anchorman, Cable Guy, Bridesmaids’ Apatow.

A mere sample of the delights on offer at the A Tribute To Judd Apatow exhibition at Gallery1988 in LA (Dec 4th to Dec 30th).

We’d go. Only the Broadsheet Gulfstream’s on the fritz.

Above: The Trouble With Rogens (And Hills and Farrells) by Kitty Weldon; The Buzz by Samuel Ho; Bill Haverchuck by Dave Quiggle; Superbad by Jeff Boyes and Mystic Crystal Revelations by Tara Krebs

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Julie and Mark Marku  on their wedding day in 2009.

Julie writes:

My husband Mark was arrested in Crete, Greece, on September 16, 2010 and has been languishing in prison ever since.

Mark and his younger brother Andreas spent 16 months in pre-trial detention before being convicted, in January 2012, of  being a member of and armed gang that committed seven armed robberies of jewellers in Crete during the summer of 2010. 

Both brothers were sentenced to 18 years in prison. Since the day of my husband’’s arrest, the case against him has been riddled by inconsistencies and just plain illogical accusations that are completely unsupported by any evidence.

Mark’s defence included social welfare records, wage slips, legal affidavits, flight tickets and passport stamps from Ireland, all of which proved irrefutably that he was in Ireland when they said crimes took place.  

The prosecutor claimed the Irish documents were falsified, a claim accepted by the judge without investigation.

The fact that Irish state and legal documents such as social welfare sign-on sheets and legal affidavits can summarily be dismissed as forgeries in a Greek Court of law should excite the interest of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Department of Social Protection. 

We are asking the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs to authenticate the documentation and to strongly express our concerns, as an Irish family, regarding the violation of my husband’s human rights, to the Greek Government and the European Parliament.

More Here: Justice For Mark And Andreas (Julie Marku,ItsAPoliticalWorld)

Justice For Mark and Andreas

Thanks Miriam Cotton and Julie Marku

The lack of an emigrant representative among the 100 strong members [of The Constitutional Convention, meetin in Dublin next month] is an unfortunate reality that will lead to a perception abroad that once again the Irish government is making clear that the emigrant voice is not important, even though the emigrant dollar clearly is…

…One of the issues to be discussed is the emigrant vote.

 

No Diaspora Irish Need Apply For Constitutional Convention In Ireland (Editorial, Irish central)

Constitutional Convention?

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)

Thanks Kate Hickey

What you may need to know:

1. Hey, The Inbetweeners Movie made a packet, so why not?

2. It’s produced by a Hollywood studio – Universal Pictures, if you don’t mind.

3. It was shot on the lam during Euro 2012.

4. Naked Irishmen = comedy gold.

5. It’s going to make a packet.

6. Up next: Mrs. Brown’s Holiday?

Release Date: February 2013

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