Advice 🙂

It’s been eleven years and it still hurts (if you let it) George Byrne - mouthy celestial lodger RIP

today is maverick poet Anne Waldman’s birthday - me, she, Syd Straw at a Ginsberg/Burroughs party for their interviews book on Three Rooms Press. Anne kindly wrote the introduction to my Allen Ginsberg “Material Wealth” book.

Starting the day with some late nite grooves .. make Boyz II Men great again 😁

March Madness. Drew Dernavich cartoon in New Yorker 🙂

Didn't get even a single like for this: you are all absolutely dead to me.

Great recording, this @theprongs.bsky.social Acting on Orders: Live at the Grand Social Dublin @punkandnewwave.bsky.social @scotspostpunk.bsky.social @itsonlyrockandroll.bsky.social @paulsimpson.bsky.social @richwatson.bsky.social @edhodgson.bsky.social theprongs.bandcamp.com/album/acting...

So there was this cat called Saint Patrick and….

“It’s a moving world, but that’s no reason to shoot some of those missiles…” (David Bowie - Fantastic Voyage)

When I need to rewrite or edit or start again, I think of this .. and take heart 😃

“Morning!” 🙂

..… waiting to happen

Backstage at the Ambassador Theatre in Dublin Can't wait to sing for y'all! RS

God morning head… good morning head … good morning head……

Join up for our ‘Boots on the Ground Ballroom.’

Roger McGough can always raise a smile .. and my spirits. This from Holiday on Death Row (Jonathan Cape, 1979)

City centre, Dublin, 2026.

Attention Dublin, Ireland: Friday evening September 4th At Chapters bookstore; Pat Thomas in conversation with Stuart Bailie and Eamon Carr !

London band @legsssssssss appeal for guitars/gear robbed in Dublin includes “Fender Telecaster Butterscotch, Mexican Fender Vintera 60s Stratocaster Modified Burgundy Mist Metallic PF Fender Squier Stratocaster Pink Fender Classic ‘60s Mustang Bass” www.hotpress.com/music/london...

Tunes weeknights 8-10pm @rteradio1.bsky.social.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

Where’d I leave my Vespa?

For 50 minutes last evening, at the opening of his exhibition Still Even at Green On Red Gallery, artist Nigel Rolfe created The River of Tears, a performance piece that was akin to taking us inside a Zen koan or Basho haiku. Inspirational

Thursday in Dublin

www.youtube.com/shorts/3A4Lp... #SuperBowl ads

8 companies that actively support ICE: - AT&T - Comcast - Charter - Dell - FedEx - Lowes - Marriott - UPS

On Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other sites, here's Paul Giamatti reading my story "Blanca." Something about fear and terror loose in the land again.... open.spotify.com/episode/6UcQ...

Lot of guacamole under Westminster Bridge since “treason” was last in the mix

Random vibe. View from Girolamo Savonarola’s monastic cell Florence

Another fine mess Monday 😃

‘Goin’ my way? Hop in.’ 🤔

Garden path theory 😊

“We'll remember the names of those who died on the streets of Minneapolis.” (Bruce Springsteen) Can’t say fairer than that💔✊✌️

Blimey! ☀️ First #washdaywednesday of 2026! 📷 #photography

Las Meninas (conjunta sin Velázquez) (30) (Cannes, Sept 1957)

Ola! 😁 How’d he do? 🤔

Spotted this cool customer in my local coffee shop 😊 (btw.. anyone know, will it ever stop raining?)

Have a great day ❤️ #AlphabetChallenge #WeekCforCloseUp

Did someone mention Greenland? Will America ever cop itself on?

Saturday stripes. 📷 #MagicalMundane ✨

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence ‘I wouldn’t have minded being a scrap-metal dealer.’

Hard to believe this was taken on a January afternoon in Dublin 🙂

“Howya head” Picasso: From the Studio, NGI

Ghosts of Dublin 😆

This nativity scene on a Dublin street reminds us that there is no ceasefire in Gaza and that Isreal is still blocking essential aid. And the world powers look away. #Gaza @aljazeera.com @democracynow.org #Palestine #genocide

If anybody thinks the backlash against Donnie's deranged brain-fart on Rob Reiner will seriously damage him - he did this 11 years ago - and was elected president twice.

The great Ian Hunter, the Young Dude himself! How cool is that!? Thank you Mark Wilson for the super good vibes ✌️Keep on choogling 🙂

With pain in our hearts, we say goodbye to the great Pat Maguire whose skill, dedication & good humour brightened the lives of so many musicians including Horslips. His was a vocation. He’ll be missed by an entire community. Pic: Pat & Johnny Fean. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam 💔

A cynical person might suggest that - just as with the recent huge ecocide on the river Blackwater - nobody will ever face consequences for this www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...