Just had a deeply sad middle aged music ma moment where I heard the opening to Everything In Its Right Place and nodded sagely, saying "Prophet 5".
Lisa Carey
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does words and music, though not always at the same time. Jimmy Cake noisenik. relax in a panic-free atmosphere.
Happy note change day in 70 year long Part 1 of 639 year long John Cage organ piece to all who celebrate. The next change will be in October 2027
As Slow as Possible - Wikipedia
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I am not saying that it is too hot and humid for my brain but I just said "we need to see if they're clinking the licks" in a meeting.
Attention Dubliners! Here is an update to my Dublin event listings spreadsheet. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #DublinGigs #DublinEvents #DublinListings #Speirgorm
The Crackdown
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Have just listened to this twice in a row while almost laughing with glee at the harmonies. youtu.be/ydZ6C_GI8-g?...
Go From My Window
YouTube video by Goblin Band - Topic
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Some journalist better fucking ask him what "woke" means and get him to spell it out *exactly*
Donncha O’Connell@donnchalaw.bsky.social · 5d agoNoel Grealish attended ‘anti-woke’ conference addressed by Nigel Farage. Department of Agriculture confirms his attendance at the event but says the Minister of State for Agriculture was present in personal capacity. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
Why would you ever trust a computer enough to upload your consciousness to it? Just die in a Victorian manor and transfer your consciousness to its dilapidated walls in the traditional fashion
obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo
Another cautionary example for those of us who have to teach survey design every so often.
Katherine Nolan@dochara.com · 6d agoIreland Thinks poll. Why are kids cycling less? Um, the answer I want to give isn't there.
No idea what's going on with the office aircon but the jacks is currently approaching the temperature of one I was in in Naples a few years ago that was behind an actual pizza oven.
Dublin folk! Would anyone like to swap two tickets for the sold-out THURSDAY GOAT gig (which I want) for two tickets for the sold-out FRIDAY GOAT gig (which I have). I appear to have double booked myself.
Made a favourite grilled chicken and pine nut tabbouleh for the first time since getting braces and can sadly report that while it is still delicious, about half the bowl is stuck in my dental work.
Is this a good time to mention that in college my History of Translation lecturer (Michael Cronin) told us that one of the first vernacular translations of The Illiad was into Irish, and the translator had to give the main characters dogs because in Gaelic society a free man had a dog
Irish women: Why can't we find men? The men:
Aidan O’Brien@aidanobrien.bsky.social · last wk.Honestly? Every Irish person knows at least one of these guys. They're all called Cormac or Ross or Ivor, and they're the self-proclaimed "mad yoke" of the group, or as we like to call him, "that fucking dose". It will later transpire that their dad is a High Court judge & they become a barrister
They're doing work on the ground floor of the building my gym is in, I had forgotten that for a while it not only contained a terrible night club but also a Dracula museum.
'They include; not supplying original bank statements, a failure to account for gaps in their education & a failure to supply strong evidence that they will return home once their course of study is completed.' When the bank has been bombed & the gap in education is obvious. This is Jim O'Callaghan
polifeed@feed.gavreilly.com · last wk.RTÉ News: Concern over study visa refusal rate for Gazan students
Farewell Bill, most radical of the Goodies. Present at Grosvenor Square with Tariq & Vanessa. Turned his harassment by the Met into slapstick TV comedy for kids. Angry, hairy, furiously talented.
At first I read this as a sign about the band TOOL and it was much funnier that way
Finally. Now Mayo only have to deal with the one curse.
If everyone in Croke Park blows in the right direction at the same time, we might be able to get the lifted curse to settle on Conor McGregor
Couldn't remember the name of Aldous Harding's album Warm Chris and came out with "Wet Derek".
I'm teaching (for the third time!) my 10-week course on how to work on your ideas BEFORE you start the grind of writing, it's been a huge amount of fun the last 2 times we did it, with all kinds of surprising & amazing stories coming out of people. Starts Sept. irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/grow...
Growing Your Idea from Thought to Script with Paul Duane - Irish Writers Centre
10-week in-person course for screenwriters with writer and director Paul Duane. Starts Wednesday 23 September 2026, 6.30pm - 8.30pm.
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Characters in a soap opera went to see my band (off-screen, sadly).
Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 2w agoOkay, my QUESTION OF THE DAY is… What is your weirdest actual accomplishment? Not the biggest necessarily…but the weirdest?