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22 Sep 2011
... I'd definitely have to completely redecorate before moving in.
(thanks Denis)
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21 Sep 2011
I've always felt I should be a benign dictator - after all it's the most efficient form of government. But failing that I'm happy to go along with a Pantisocracy. It's a "utopian scheme" of government, all about egalitarian community. Though obviously I'd have to b more equal that anybody else because.... well, because the clue is in the name. Everyone on board? Good.
(thanks Perry)
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20 Aug 2011
Those of you who like to follow US politics/culture wars will find this little ditty amusing.
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11 Aug 2011
The thought of Gay Byrne becoming president fills me with ick - he's patronising now as a broadcasting icon, can you imagine what he'd be like as president?! - but there's no denying that in his time he played a pivitol role in dragging this country out of the dark ages, and that certainly includes in it's attitude to gay people. Not sure what year this clip is from (around 1990?) but it's worth a look.
(via @Fintan_Walsh)
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02 Aug 2011
A disappointing end to something that could have been inspiring to gay people in this country.
(pic: Irish Times)
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24 Jun 2011
Michael Barron, the co-founder and Chief Executive of BeLonGTo Youth Services, is the Grand Marshal of this year's Dublin Pride Parade, and he has written a piece for The Journal defending David Norris from the smear campaign against him, because he knows what it feels like. Read it HERE.
"The reason for telling you all this is because the attacks we endured share a lot in common with what has been said about Senator Norris. The message is - children and young people are not safe around gay people. This is the oldest trick in the homophobe's handbook."
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13 Jun 2011
I don't remember this! Maggie in The Rovers Return. Bizarre.
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23 May 2011
I was going to go see Obama give his big public address at College Green - it is on Pantibar's doorstep - but then decided against it when I saw the rotten weather this morning. But now that it's clearing up I thought I should probably bother my padded ass after all. But after seeing these photos of the waiting queue of Obama enthusiasts taken by Dolly Grip (who lives at the top of Dame Street*) I'm beginning to wonder if it'll be worth it. I suspect if you're not there queuing from early you'll be very far back. On the other hand though, perhaps I shouldn't be so lazy. How often do you get to see Michelle Obama's husband give a big speech on the streets of Dublin?
I'll see what Penny thinks.
* Yes, you can now use this information to stalk Dolly. She doesn't get up before noon, so as stalking gigs go it's a good one.
The queue started early this morning and stretches far around the corner into Christchurch.
The crowd will be funneled through security before being allowed on to Dame Street. Obama will be speaking from the stage erected at the very far end of the street outside the Bank Of Ireland. He won't be facing down Dame St, but rather across College Green, I guess because it will look better on TV with the bank building's columns behind him.
And they're off.
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06 May 2011
Watching the US over the past few days since the killing of Bin Laden has been a weird experience as the jingoism has been turned up to eleven with crowds of meat-heads chant "U S A! U S A!" Though of course not every American is fist pumping in the streets.
To be clear, I'm not for one second loosing any sleep over the death of a psychopath like Bin Laden. Sure, if I were Queen Of The World I'd have preferred to see him captured and brought to trial, but he was in a broad sense waging war on the US and in that context, he lived by the sword, he died by the sword. However, it's not just unseemly - it's disturbing - to see people out on the streets chanting and cheering the violent death of anyone no matter what the circumstances. It cheapens all life.
Of course it's all tied up in the US' particular brand of nationalism, and its fetishization of its military, which we've discussed before. Why the military is so central to US identity isn't simple to explain. The trite answer is that the US has been involved in a war of some kind pretty much continuously for the last century and with that has had dead soldiers coming home to devastated families for a century, but then so has Britain and it certainly doesn't fetishize it's military in the same way.
Its particular brand of fist-pumping jingoism (ironically also found in totalitarian regimes) is also hard to understand from our perspective. Perhaps Europeans are more wary of nationalism in general given our bloody and recent history. Perhaps we're less insular because we have no choice but to be. Perhaps the US is more jingoistic because it hasn't seen war on its own soil in living memory. Perhaps the US, a nation of immigrants and myriad cultures, needs to fetishize the flag and the nation in order to bind such disparate peoples. But then shouldn't a nation of immigrants be more outward looking? These are big questions, ones I'm not qualified to answer.
On another note though... I am certainly no military expert, but is taking ten years to track down and kill one bloke when you are the world's most powerful military really something to be chantingly proud of?
Anyway, the US media has gone on an orgy of military worship since Bin Laden's killing. Specifically, they have gone on a gay porn orgy over the "Seals" who went in and killed him. The New York Times illustrated it's gushing piece, In Bin Laden's Compound, Seals' All-Star Team, with the gay porn shot above. The Daily Beast got in to a total gay tizzy, explaining how you too can get an awesome "buff" Seal's body by following their tough and sexy exercise regime. And then to drive the message home, they have a gallery of cute seals - half the cuddly animals, half the butch porn-y soldiers.
But just in case you thought all Americans were "U-S-A!" chanting fist-pumpers and the woman who wrote the article I linked to at the top was an exception, check out the reaction of these weary New York commuters to one guy's vain attempt to get a post-Bin Laden chant going. And just in case you think the chanter is being ironic - he's not, as he makes clear in the YouTube information.
(NYT article - thanks Caroline. Cute Seals gallery - thanks Thomas. YouTube via Broadsheet)
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30 Mar 2011
If, like me, you're living with an Angry Birds addiction (I am not a gamer by any stretch of the imagination, but those Angry Birds got under my skin at Christmas and have made a number of boring journeys fly by) then this fun animation will tickle you, as the Angry Birds take on the "big pigs" of Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya.
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