Lilla Vargen – Blueprints
“I was having visions of us having children. How could I be so dumb?”
Now that’s a killer line.
London-based Ballymena torch singer Lilla Vargen (top) gives Adele a run for her money with this emotionally raw ballad ahead of a tour next year.
A shout-out to the slick lyric video by James Hofbauer too.
Nick says: Love hurts.
Presenting: the Wobble Dog 9003i from Atomic Shrimp – the ideal solution to all your wiener oscillating needs.
You filthy so-and-so.
Can you see him?
Barry McKenna writes:
A subtle print idea in honour of Fungie and the time he spent in Dingle harbour. The place will never be the same again – but it will be forever shaped by the 37 years he spent here…
This morning.
Camelot, Kingdom of Logres, Dublin 9.
Lia Stokes writes:
It wouldn’t be Christmas without panto! The Helix and TheatreworX are excited to announce an online Christmas panto of ‘The Sword in the Stone’ starring Fair City’s Amilia Stewart-Keating (top left).
Produced once again by TheatreworX Productions, The Helix Panto Online will be a new way for families all over the country to enjoy the magic of Christmas panto during these Covid times and all from the comfort of their homes. Tickets for this magical cinematic experience are on sale from tomorrow, Tuesday, 17th November at 12noon at link below
Leon Farrell/RollingNews
Behold: NGC 5866, aka, M102, aka, ‘the Spindle’ – not the thinnest galactic disk in the Universe but, seen edge-on from the perspective of our own Milky Way, pretty damn svelte all the same. to wit:
Classified as a lenticular galaxy, NGC 5866 has numerous and complex dust lanes appearing dark and red, while many of the bright stars in the disk give it a more blue underlying hue. The blue disk of young stars can be seen extending past the dust in the extremely thin galactic plane, while the bulge in the disk center appears tinged more orange from the older and redder stars that likely exist there. Although similar in mass to our Milky Way Galaxy, light takes about 60,000 years to cross NGC 5866, about 30 percent less than light takes to cross our own Galaxy. In general, many disk galaxies are very thin because the gas that formed them collided with itself as it rotated about the gravitational center. Galaxy NGC 5866 lies about 44 million light years distant toward the constellation of the Dragon (Draco).
(Image: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: W. Keel (U. Alabama)
Billie.
Andy Pipkin writes:
Thought you be interested in this documentary that ‘dropped’ on Friday about one of the greatest vocalist of all time…’In 1971, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. Over 8 years, she tracked down and tape-recorded over 200 hours of interviews with the extraordinary characters that populated the iconic singer’s short, tumultuous life. However, Linda’s book was never finished and the tapes never heard until now’.
Billie review – a truer, historical spin on the great Billie Holiday (The Guardian)
Free December 4?
You are invited…
…To the Zoom launch of poet Kevin Higgins’ new book The Colour Yellow & The Number 19 – Negative Thoughts That Helped One Man Mostly Retain His Sanity During 2020 (Nuascéalta).
To wit
In a mix of poetry and prose, Kevin Higgins takes a darkly humorous approach to finding himself designated one of the “vulnerable” during the year in which plague again stalked the Earth.
He also, as is his way, finds time to drop acerbic comment on the heads of the ungood and the ungreat, and to comment in a fairly unrestrained fashion on world affairs.
This is the ideal Christmas or Birthday present for Irish Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan and for those who, when the time comes, hope to be invited to Kevin’s funeral. It is also the perfect gift for the posh liberal in your life.
The book will be launched by Somatic therapist Aisling Richmond and writer and critic Tomás Mac Siomóin. The MC for the evening will be poet Rachel Coventry.
Join the meeting here (Meeting ID: 738 901 3549) at 6.30pm, Friday, December 4
The Colour Yellow & The Number 19 (Nuascéalta)
Irish-made stocking fillers to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stocking Fillers’.
