The European Commission has cleared the release of another €1 billion to Ireland under the EU/IMF bailout.

Yay

On October 1, a €1bn unsecured unguaranteed AIB bond will be paid, almost a third of all the combined extra taxes/cuts proposed for Budget 2013.

Oh.

(EC)

This isn’t the way it was planned,
For this speech to the wealthy and grand,
But it’s always a bitch,
When your words to the rich,
Get transmitted all over the land.

John Moynes

(Mother Jones)


The official Nerdist video for the perky Do It Anyway from The Sounds Of The Life Of The Mind album, directed by Phil Hodges, exec produced by Chris Hardwick and Lisa Henson and featuring the denizens of Fraggle Rock.

awesomer

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9L3RWv_puU

What you may need to know.

1. Remember Tobey Maguire? He used to be Spider-Man.

2. Maguire is suffering from a spot of DiCaprio Syndrome, whereupon the adjustment to adult roles is hindered by the fact that the sufferer still looks like a teenager.

3. Maguire hasn’t been seen much of late, but he’s in The Great Gatsby next summer, and he’s planning to play Bobby Fischer.

4. The Details is a black comedy. How black? Pretty black.

5. Bonus points for original African American president Dennis Haysbert (from 24), Ray Liotta, and a killer last shot. How did they do that?

Release Date: November (US)

Thanks Barry H

Sidney Nolan’s Ned Kelly series is “one of the greatest sequences of Australian paintings” of the 20th century and belonged to “the company of twentieth-century personages which includes Picasso’s minotaur,Chirico’s mannequins, Ernst’s birdmen, Bacon’s popes and Giacometti’s walking man”.

 

The National Gallery of Australia (NGA) is sending its Sidney Nolan Ned Kelly Series to a museum in Dublin.
The 26 works from the series will be loaned to the Irish Museum of Modern Art for exhibition from November to January.
The famous paintings tell the story of Ned Kelly and his gang from the shooting of police constables at Stringybark Creek, to the siege of the Glenrowan hotel and the trial which ended in a hanging sentence for Kelly.

 

Nolan’s Ned Kelly off to Ireland (ABC.au)

Sidney Nolan (National Gallery of Australia)

Thanks Mark Geary

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