Catherine Connolly watching the FFG coalition break down before the next election #speirghorm

My parents filtered out the bad stuff, but that didn’t stop my grandma when she had a craving. www.southernliving.com/brunswick-st...

king

goal of the season (complimentary) followed up immediately by goal of the season (derogatory)

I am so pleased that parasaurolophus made the footnote.

happy Monday, just wanted to let you all know that a player named Priscila Chinchilla scored seven goals in a match for the Costa Rican national team

Martin Gore: I wrote the darkwave classic “Personal Jesus” as a cautionary tale. Tech-brethren:

Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe. “All is vanity.” ALL.

Someone will mash it up with HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS (2022) and it will be glorious

Today’s main character: Why not just take the misery out of writing? Me:

Melville’s at the Palestra

Just remembering how good Bowie was at losing his marker.

Few people know this, but the tinderbox of Europe was set alight and the world was plunged into horrifying war when Phillies first baseman Bryce Harper, pictured below, traveled back in time to 1914 and assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. bsky.app/profile/wpie...

A student orchestra once promoted their concert of Mahler 1 with posters swapping Mahler’s name for Chuck Norris. Mahler doesn’t do pushups. Mahler pushes the earth down. If you have five dollars, and Mahler has five dollars, Mahler has more money than you.

A US politician actually quoting the Epistola ad milites Corotici in his Patrick’s Day message? Of course it’s Mamdani.

Donne: "Batter my heart, three-person'd god" Yeatso: "Goooooodnight, everybody!"

Just move the whole World Cup to the country that’s turning the Zocalo into a giant pitch instead of threatening to kill visiting teams

There’s a radio advert for a Dublin production of The Crucible where the announcer is obviously an Irishman doing my own accent, American Movie Trailer Voice, and it’s delightful.

If anyone is gonna say something controversial at Reggie Jackson's funeral, it's gonna be Reggie Jackson. That much I know. bsky.app/profile/ronf...

“Mommmmm, can we get a bailey?” “We have a bailey at home.” The bailey at home:

When first I appear, I seem mysterious But when I’m explained, I’m nothing serious

Pancake on the streets of London. Pancake on the streets of Birmingham.

Hast du etwas Zeit für mich?

Morning unsupported random thought: A Christian state that prioritizes penal substitutionary atonement theory will understand, prioritize, & justify itself as the administrator of its own penal state. A militarized police state with expansive incarceration/detention is the arm of its judging God.

An actual Antichrist would unveil himself as the second coming, resolve the contract to Yes, and make bank. (He’d have better ways to make money of course. He’s the Antichrist. But he’d absolutely pick up the free money first.)

Watching NYC-era Pirlo not even try to defend on corners was a sicko’s delight.

The Buster/Dave dialectic

The Cardinals signed a guy named Bligh Madris. Pirates from the Star Wars universe are apparently the new inefficiency.

Arthur Freed. There’s no more purely joyful filmography, but it’s got that not-even-hidden thread of abuse that I can’t unsee.

Met a very optimistic racist earlier who told me Ireland is half full

CL final day in the new format

The proud Polish city of Białystok caught one of the all-time strays. Perhaps the Europa League will help?

The Red Bull

Fbref made football fans smarter and that was great.

Cow tools (gift link)

If you're calling your competiton a "cup" then you need to be able to drink out of the trophy, I'm sorry but those are the rules. Vases are vases, plates are plates, shields are shields, cups should be cups.

It would be easier to deal with giant spiders in a way, because you can point at ‘em, but the underlying obstacles remain and (some of) the forces pushing for climate change are at least as identifiable as a giant spider

Broon’s a real one

We always called it the Sanitary District Canal. When it ran low in summer, you could smell the buildup of crud on low-lying trees. Its cleanup has been huge. There are even beavers! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_S...

I thought three days for a restart was standard after a great Jesus cross

Setting aside mythical/religious figures w/o single authors Janet on “The Good Place” Woolf’s Orlando The Major from “Last First Snow” I haven’t seen “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” in over twenty years, so it may not hold up, but I found Bernadette’s story the most compelling thread of the film

As in the USA, the most dangerous hard-right tendencies in Ireland are those within the parties of gov’t.

After our first visit to Ireland in 2019 my spouse was listening to RTE1, like you do. A newsreader casually said “And now for the dark soap opera that is the United States of America.” Grateful for a news environment that’s capable of telling it like it is sometimes.

ELROND: There are those who live in the mountain. ARAGORN: They are murderers, oathbreakers. They believe in nothing. THE DEAD: We believe in nothing, Lebowski! WALTER: Say what you will about the reign of Sauron over all the peoples of Middle Earth, at least it’s an ethos.

when Jacques Lacan said, "Desire full stop is always the desire of the Other", meaning that desire is premised on the attainment of an impossible object, a wholeness which can never be achieved, he was actually talking about sports fans bsky.app/profile/blow...

Ce sont chiens sages, Citoyen Brent

Bugs Bunny 🤝 pumas “Penguins is as good as chickens.”

(a long-standing personal favourite about the difficulty of translating swearing is the Flemish priest in 1915/16 trying to decipher what the Tommies nearby were saying.

Strictly trans, probably I Am a Bird Now or Hopelessness, though nothing lives deeper in my head than the first Matrix movie. Including enbies, Janelle’s Chase EP and The ArchAndroid.