Trish Byrne

Please fill in the form. My work, most of which is given free to the public, has improved now that I'm not entirely paralysed by financial terror.

Yes, I want to read that. I'm waiting for the paperback.

I would've been fine if the book had chosen relationships over plot, or plot over relationships, but they tried to do both at the same time without doing either properly. For me, anyway. It's an immensely popular book, mind you.

Just finished reading a book that seemed SO PROMISING at first and then just wasn't any good. Ach. It's put me in a surprisingly bad mood.

Took my family to New York and saw Mrs. van Rhijn taking luncheon with a divorcee, you can’t convince me that crime isn’t up

It's just possible we might get some Perseid action tomorrow night.

HUH TURNS OUT THEY'RE REAL PEOPLE AND THEY NEED REAL DONATIONS

WHO COULD HAVE FORESEEN THIS

My towels!

Well, this is who I am now. A person who Youtube thinks wants to see a video called "You're Washing Your Microfiber Towels Wrong."

Impressed that the Traitors Ireland is promising deception AND deceit.

YouTube video by advertarchive British Porks got the lot 1984

Excellent YouTube comment:

“There are two UK TV films of this era unmatched for their horror: the nuclear apocalypse ‘Threads’ and this advert for British Pork”

youtu.be/r0wDjWOnHcY

By my count this makes 5 out of 12 authors on the Polari First Book longlist who have withdrawn. It's hard to understate the moral courage this involves, esp for folk launching their first book into the world. As so often, those with the most to lose end up showing the most moral fibre. Solidarity x

One of the tedious things about having problematic teeth is that there's nothing I can do about them. I can't Mounjaro my way out of cracked molars and corkscrew roots.

fucking hysterical to hear the 'poor little genAI industry' crying about being bullied with "copyright law" as if it's some novel, untested area of jurisprudence.

If you don't want to be sued by 7 million people don't steal from 7 million people, that's a pretty simple legal concept

UEFA: Farewell to Suleiman al-Obeid, the 'Palestinian Pelé'. A talent who gave hope to countless children, even in the darkest of times.

How did he die? Why are the times dark?

*young me, developing a strong sense of justice*

This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane

The White House is truly in its hootered-nymphs era.

the thing that trans people ask of the world is so tiny, really. just to be able to exist as the person they are, without the rest of us being weird or cruel about it. it's a deep shame on our society that we are unable to deliver on so small a thing.

My favourite thing about that Marc Maron excerpt is the simple retort it offers us for when people continue to complain about "woke".
"Great, well, the governments all listened to you. You won. Everyone you hate is miserable. Now shut the fuck up about it."

Marc Maron is absolutely right here

Visitors stage anti-migrant march in Galway Galway city centre was especially busy last Saturday, with racegoers, summer tourists and the unusual addition of a march by far-right agitators, met by an anti-fascist counter demonstration, causing ...

Brilliant reporting by the galway advertiser. Absolutely perfect www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...

The Crackdown

Updated Dublin events spreadsheet! Rare chances to see Spinal Tap and the Rocky Horror on the big screen. And Gibby Haynes playing the hits of the Butthole Surfers NEXT WEEK. It's better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven't done...

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

William Holden as Joe Gillis in a tuxedo with a cigarette in his mouth, standing in front of a Sunset Boulevard street sign

A medium close up of William Holden as Joe Gillis frowning off to the side. Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) is just behind him and her hand is reaching around to his chest.

Joe Gillis (William Holden) and Betty Schaefer (Nancy Olson) standing and talking on a Paramount backlot made to look like a city street.

William Holden as Joe Gillis standing in a suit with his arms crossed over his chest.

rewatched Sunset Boulevard (on the big screen!) for the first time in god knows how many years and my biggest takeaway was that I would absolutely let that broke fuckboy screenwriter ruin my life

It’s been two and a half hours since the last injection and I still can’t move my face.

And when I say “perfectly,” I mean the dentist sprayed some water on the tooth and it lifted me every time. So I guess I’ll be having another root canal then. Yay.

Went to the dentist today to have one of my big old bull-elephant teeth refilled. Six injections later and we are at the limit of what medical science is allowed to jab in my gob in one sitting. My whole head is numb. Can still feel perfectly in my tooth.

One ring to rule them all
One ring to find them
One ring to bring them all
And two rings to let me know you got home safely

“Couldn’t I just have a nice fax machine?”

a man goes to the doctor and says he’s depressed and doesn’t have the will to live any more. the doctor says, “i have the solution - go and see the great reply guy pagliacci, he’ll cheer your up!” and the man says “well actually,

The perfect host.