Lisa Carey

A mural advertising a Vikings versus Steelers American football game on the side of a pub

The lovely squirrel mural there got ripped down because of some nebulous "development", meanwhile this poxy thing is still up months after the event.

Happy birthday!

Needless to say I did not expect this.

Bah. (are you allowed ibuprofen? I found doing an ibuprofen/paracetamol combo much better than either alone for pain when not issued with The Good Drugs)

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Some day, I will remember the HTML entity for an em-dash off the top of my head, but today is not that day. &em;? &emdash;? ‐? (it's —, punctuation fans).

That is *mad*. WHAT could have encouraged more and more people who work in Dublin to buy/rent homes further and further out from the city, clearly they all just really want to live in Kildare and love commuting.

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Absolutely fucking dying here www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

Already signed!

That is exactly what sprang to mind for me too!

Ooh, they're lovely (though I would only be able to wear them if someone carried me around in a sedan chair).

The heel.

(this is all very hypothetical as my craptastic feet are such that the last wedding I went to I wore Birkenstocks. Valentino Birkenstocks, mind, but still Birks)

I actually don't know how I feel about wearing rented shoes? Rented fancy frocks/suits, fine.

But it's fine, we've got ... *checks notes* ... a load of aparthotels instead.

A black vinyl record bearing a label that reads “DO NOT PLAY THIS SIDE”.

FOLK MASS FRANCES MARY HUNTER GORDON No label 1968

Has any horror film ever started with the image/idea of Fig. 1? Especially if the flipside is something like Fig. 2?

Also can't wait for "Junction Announcer: Even Announcerer".

In which my own son's sick burning of his aunt is taken to another level. (also go see the film, it's delightful!).

I once saw a man in a pristine all white outfit standing in the middle of a duckboard path at a very muddy Glastonbury and I still sometimes wonder how he got there. Cattle hoist? Transporter accident?

Aw thanks, all fully healed and mobile again for ages now. I do not recommend falling down two flights of Dutch stairs.

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The product I'm currently documenting really needs a Wuvator.

(might explain the number of British people who have been startled to discover that plucky Ireland has own government, laws)

In general I have been AMAZED at how little Irish history my UK peers did in school. WE'RE JUST OVER HERE LADS.

For my Elvis book I met the Finnish academic who performed and recorded Elvis songs translated into both Latin and Sumerian.

"Of course, they did not have blue suede shoes in Sumeria," he told me, "so I had to translate the song as 'on my sandals of sky blue leather, please do not stand".

Annoyingly the stubbed toe *really hurt*. Damn you feet and your many nerve endings.

(when I got my wrist nailed back together last year they gave me a nerve block of such vehemence that I didn't regain feeling in my arm until the following morning, after many incidents of comedically accidentally hitting myself on the head while in a plaster cast)

Glad it's all done and wishing you a speedy recovery!! Hope you get all the good drugs.

Owwwww